Citizen science is an increasingly acknowledged approach applied in many scientific
domains, and particularly within the environmental and ecological sciences, in which non …

Citizen science, the involvement of volunteers in research, has increased the scale of
ecological field studies with continent-wide, centralized monitoring efforts and, more rarely …

Ecological and environmental citizen‐science projects have enormous potential to advance
scientific knowledge, influence policy, and guide resource management by producing …

Biodiversity citizen science projects are growing in number, size, and scope, and are
gaining recognition as valuable data sources that build public engagement. Yet publication …

This chapter discusses the broad and complex topic of data quality in citizen science–a
contested arena because different projects and stakeholders aspire to different levels of data …

Citizen science as a way of communicating science and doing public engagement has over
the past decade become the focus of considerable hopes and expectations. It can be seen …

Networks of citizen scientists (CS) have the potential to observe biodiversity and species
distributions at global scales. Yet the adoption of such datasets in conservation science may …

Crowdsourcing is one of the emerging Web 2.0 based phenomenon and has attracted great
attention from both practitioners and scholars over the years. It can facilitate the connectivity …

The accumulation of large and small plastic debris is a problem throughout the world's
oceans and coastlines. Abundances and types of small plastic debris have only been …

A citizen scientist is a volunteer who collects and/or processes data as part of a scientific
enquiry. Projects that involve citizen scientists are burgeoning, particularly in ecology and …