Abstract
Understanding tropical biology is important for solving complex problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and zoonotic pandemics, but biology curricula view research mostly via a temperate-zone lens. Integrating tropical research into biology education is urgently needed to tackle these issues.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | e3001674 |
Journal | PLoS biology |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Support was provided by grants from the United States National Science Foundation (DBIRCN-UBE 1919640 and 2120141). Funding program website: https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/ opportunities/research-coordination-networks-undergraduate-biology-education-rcn-ube AR received funding, and all authors are participants in the research coordinated network that this grant funds. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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