Emerging technologies are increasingly employed in environmental citizen science projects.
This integration offers benefits and opportunities for scientists and participants alike. Citizen …

The development and uptake of citizen science and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques for
ecological monitoring is increasing rapidly. Citizen science and AI allow scientists to create …

The biological sciences community is increasingly recognizing the value of open,
reproducible and transparent research practices for science and society at large. Despite …

Urban environments are arguably among the most suitable targets for conservation science,
as they represent opportunities to preserve both species and habitats under threat while at …

Wildlife is an essential component of all ecosystems. Most places in the globe do not have
local, timely information on which species are present or how their populations are …

The widespread use of species traits in basic and applied ecology, conservation and
biogeography has led to an exponential increase in functional diversity analyses, with> 10 …

Citizen science programs are becoming increasingly popular among naturalists but remain
heavily biased taxonomically and geographically. However, with the explosive popularity of …

Open science (OS) is currently dominated by a small subset of practices that occur late in the
scientific process. Early career researchers (ECRs) will play a key role in transitioning the …

Ever-increasing human pressures on cave biodiversity have amplified the need for
systematic, repeatable, and intensive surveys of cave-dwelling arthropods to formulate …

Rapid growth in bio-logging—the use of animal-borne electronic tags to document the
movements, behaviour, physiology and environments of wildlife—offers opportunities to …