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Strategies and support for Black, Indigenous, and people of colour in ecology and evolutionary biology

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Fig. 1: Barriers.

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Fig. 2: Summary of strategies for Black, Indigenous, and people of colour working in ecology and evolutionary biology.

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  1. Department of Zoology and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Michelle Tseng & Diane S. Srivastava

  2. Dept of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Michelle Tseng

  3. Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

    Rana W. El-Sabaawi

  4. Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Michael B. Kantar

  5. Department of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Environmental Science, The American University of Paris, Paris, France

    Jelena H. Pantel

  6. Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA

    Jessica L. Ware

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Tseng, M., El-Sabaawi, R.W., Kantar, M.B. et al. Strategies and support for Black, Indigenous, and people of colour in ecology and evolutionary biology. Nat Ecol Evol 4, 1288–1290 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1252-0

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