Dam the genetic resources, full speed ahead

Global Forest Watch now has a dam dataset, covering 50 major river basins. Here’s what it looks like:

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You can mash it up online with various forest datasets, but you can also download it as a kml. Which of course means you can mash it up with your own dataset. That’s what I’ve done here with wild rice from Cambodia. The white arrows are dams, most of them either planned or under construction, the yellow dots samples of wild Oryza according to Genesys.

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You’ll notice a few dams with few or no nearby specimens. Off the top of my head, those would seem to be places where collecting might be in order, before the disruption goes too far. But what do the rice experts out there think?

LATER: Seems I might be on to something…

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