The power of citizen science to advance fungal conservation

D Haelewaters, CA Quandt, L Bartrop… - Conservation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Fungal conservation is gaining momentum globally, but many challenges remain. To
advance further, more data are needed on fungal diversity across space and time …

Outstanding challenges and future directions for biodiversity monitoring using citizen science data

A Johnston, E Matechou… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
There is increasing availability and use of unstructured and semi‐structured citizen science
data in biodiversity research and conservation. This expansion of a rich source of 'big …

Large-bodied birds are over-represented in unstructured citizen science data

CT Callaghan, AGB Poore, M Hofmann, CJ Roberts… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Citizen science platforms are quickly accumulating hundreds of millions of biodiversity
observations around the world annually. Quantifying and correcting for the biases in citizen …

The role of environmental drivers in humpback whale distribution, movement and behavior: A review

JO Meynecke, J De Bie, JLM Barraqueta… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae, are a highly migratory species exposed to a
wide range of environmental factors during their lifetime. The spatial and temporal …

Estimating species distributions from spatially biased citizen science data

A Johnston, N Moran, A Musgrove, D Fink… - Ecological Modelling, 2020 - Elsevier
Ecological citizen science data are rapidly growing in availability and use in ecology and
conservation. Many citizen science projects have the flexibility for participants to select …

[PDF][PDF] No PhDs needed: how citizen science is transforming research

A Irwin - Nature, 2018 - moodle.eu-citizen.science
As a biogeochemist at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, Meysman wasn't used to
drawing so much attention. But that was before he adopted the citizens of northern Belgium …

Modeling spatially biased citizen science effort through the eBird database

B Tang, JS Clark, AE Gelfand - Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 2021 - Springer
Citizen science databases are increasing in importance as sources of ecological
information, but variability in effort across locations is inherent to such data. Spatially biased …

Many cameras make light work: opportunistic photographs of rare species in iNaturalist complement structured surveys of reef fish to better understand species …

CJ Roberts, A Vergés, CT Callaghan… - Biodiversity and …, 2022 - Springer
Citizen science is on the rise, with growing numbers of initiatives, participants and
increasing interest from the broader scientific community. iNaturalist is an example of a …

[HTML][HTML] Hunters as citizen scientists: Contributions to biodiversity monitoring in Europe

B Cretois, JDC Linnell, M Grainger, EB Nilsen… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Monitoring biodiversity characteristics at large scales and with adequate resolution requires
considerable effort and resources. Overall, there is clearly a huge scope for European …

[HTML][HTML] Deciphering china's socio-economic disparities: A comprehensive study using nighttime light data

T Chen, Y Zhou, D Zou, J Wu, Y Chen, J Wu, J Wang - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Achieving equitable and harmonized socio-economic development is a vital gauge of
national progress, particularly in geographically extensive nations such as China. This …