AI needs solid botanical data more than ever

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I graduated in 2017 from one of the last stand-alone botany departments in the United States. My undergraduate studies gave me training in plant and fungal taxonomy that grounds my research as a PhD candidate in fungal ecology, and taught me how to engage directly with organisms through fieldwork and microscopy.

We must train specialists in botany and zoology — or risk more devastating extinctions