Volume 71, Issue 5
May 2021
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Cover: Villagers in a voluntary community monitoring group in Myanmar's Natmataung National Park collect information on natural resources, discuss changes in their status, and agree on solutions to problems relating to the resources. The villagers monitor fauna and flora species of key importance to them, as well as nontimber forest products, wildfires, water in streams, and access by different people to areas regarded as customary village territories. Led by the nongovernmental organization Spectrum, this program uses villagers’ expert knowledge of their environment to encourage biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. Villager-led monitoring can enable a constructive dialogue between government staff and villagers and, at the same time, help adapt the management of the land to the realities on the ground. In a Special Section in this issue, several articles discuss challenges to and opportunities for bottom-up approaches to natural resource monitoring. Photograph: Martin Enghoff.
ISSN 0006-3568
EISSN 1525-3244
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Volume 71, Issue 5, May 2021
Editorial
The Science of Peer Review: Grant Review Feedback
BioScience, Volume 71, Issue 5, May 2021, Page 431, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab051
Letters
Museums Are Critical Infrastructure for Studying Urban Biodiversity
BioScience, Volume 71, Issue 5, May 2021, Page 433, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab038
In their own words
In Their Own Words: John E. Burris
BioScience, Volume 71, Issue 5, May 2021, Pages 441–447, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab029
Feature
Antarctica during the Pandemic: Scaled-back field season prioritizes infrastructure, precious climate data
BioScience, Volume 71, Issue 5, May 2021, Pages 434–440, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab031
Viewpoint
Expanding the Impact of Citizen Science
BioScience, Volume 71, Issue 5, May 2021, Pages 448–451, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab041
Overview Articles
The Use of Digital Platforms for Community-Based Monitoring
BioScience, Volume 71, Issue 5, May 2021, Pages 452–466, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa162
Connecting Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches in Environmental Observing
BioScience, Volume 71, Issue 5, May 2021, Pages 467–483, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab018
The Concept, Practice, Application, and Results of Locally Based Monitoring of the Environment
BioScience, Volume 71, Issue 5, May 2021, Pages 484–502, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab021
Creating Synergies between Citizen Science and Indigenous and Local Knowledge
BioScience, Volume 71, Issue 5, May 2021, Pages 503–518, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab023
Forum
Sea Change: Using Citizen Science to Inform Fisheries Management
BioScience, Volume 71, Issue 5, May 2021, Pages 519–530, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab016
Mesophication of Oak Landscapes: Evidence, Knowledge Gaps, and Future Research
BioScience, Volume 71, Issue 5, May 2021, Pages 531–542, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa169
Beyond Standardization: Improving External Validity and Reproducibility in Experimental Evolution
BioScience, Volume 71, Issue 5, May 2021, Pages 543–552, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab008
Calendar
Calendar of meetings
BioScience, Volume 71, Issue 5, May 2021, Page 553, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab053
Arts in Science
I Must Speak of the Turning
BioScience, Volume 71, Issue 5, May 2021, Page 554, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab007
