A Vision for Continental-Scale Biology: Research Across Multiple Scales

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ISBN10: 0309711355
ISBN13: 9780309711357
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: Jul 24 2025
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.93 Depth: 9.92
Language: English

Our planet is facing many complex environmental challenges, including the loss of biodiversity and rapidly changing climate conditions, driven by intensifying human-nature interactions worldwide. Dramatic advances in the biological sciences over recent years are made possible by new tools to study life at many scales, from identifying mutations in a single gene to monitoring changes in plants, animals, and microbes over an entire continent. These tools have the potential to usher in a new era of continental-scale biology (CSB) in which researchers can combine data from various realms across organizational, spatial, and temporal scales, addressing questions on biological processes and patterns that cannot be answered by observations at either small or large scales alone.

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