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Publikation Nr. 1217 - Details Lindemann-Matthies, P. (2002). Das "Wiesenexperiment" – eine Pilotstudie über das Erkennen von Artenvielfalt durch Studierende, Natur und Landschaft, 77(7), 319-320. Abstract In a pilot study on people’s cognition of plant diversity annual plants were arranged in meadow-like arrays of different diversity (four and ten species). None of the study participants (27 science students and six lecturers from the University of Zurich) was able to estimate correctly the number of species in all four meadow-like arrays, and more than 90% were not able to name any of the plant species present. Most participants rated their botanical knowledge as very limited and were not Attribute
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