The silicon citizen naturalist.

Hudson, Matthew E; Battu, Gopal · Cell · 2026

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Abstract

Smartphone-wielding citizen scientists and an AI called FLORIST are transforming ecology at the continental scale. In this issue of Cell, when Tibbs-Cortes et al. pair the crowdsourced data with controlled genetics, they discover how switchgrass times its flowering to outwit both frost and heat, depending on latitude.

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