The prospect of leveraging new technologies for community-based environmental
monitoring has captured the imagination of many scientists, policy makers, and conservation …

Abstract The United Nations recently agreed to major expansions of global protected areas
(PAs) to slow biodiversity declines. However, although reserves often reduce habitat loss …

Quantifying the abundance of species is essential to ecology, evolution, and conservation.
The distribution of species abundances is fundamental to numerous longstanding questions …

Citizen science is mainstream: millions of people contribute data to a growing array of citizen
science projects annually, forming massive datasets that will drive research for years to …

Citizen science platforms are quickly accumulating hundreds of millions of biodiversity
observations around the world annually. Quantifying and correcting for the biases in citizen …

Identifying which ecological and life history traits influence a species' tolerance to
urbanization is critical to understanding the trajectory of biodiversity in an increasingly …

Context Urbanization fragments and destroys natural landscapes, generally decreasing bird
diversity. While in some cases bird diversity continuously decreases in response to …

Contrasting trajectories of biodiversity loss and urban expansion make it imperative to
understand biodiversity persistence in cities. Size‐, local‐, and landscape‐level habitat …

We are currently in the midst of Earth's sixth extinction event, and measuring biodiversity
trends in space and time is essential for prioritizing limited resources for conservation. At the …

Understanding the composition of urban wildlife communities is crucial to promote
biodiversity, ecosystem function and links between nature and people. Using crowdsourced …