Climate warming is considered to be among the most serious of anthropogenic stresses to
the environment, because it not only has direct effects on biodiversity, but it also exacerbates …

Residential gardens are a principal component of urban green infrastructure throughout the
world and their potential positive contributions to biodiversity are increasingly recognised …

Citizen science (CS) is regarded as a promising format in environmental and sustainability
education as well as in science education. CS projects often assume that participation in the …

Citizen science (CS) can help to tackle the emerging and worldwide problem of marine litter
(ML), from collecting data to engaging different stakeholders. We reviewed what and how …

Open Science (OS) aims, in part, to drive greater societal impact of academic research.
Government, funder and institutional policies state that it should further democratize …

Conservation of biodiversity is above all else an exercise in human persuasion. Human
behavior drives all substantive threats to biodiversity; therefore, influencing it is the only path …

Biodiversity conservation is fundamentally linked to human values, attitudes, and
behaviours. Nature connectedness, the strength of a person's relationship with nature, is an …

Community (or citizen) science, the involvement of volunteers in scientific endeavors, has a
long history. Over the past few centuries, the contributions of volunteers to our …

Citizen scientists play an increasingly important role in biodiversity monitoring. Most of the
data, however, are unstructured—collected by diverse methods that are not documented …

Online community and citizen science (CCS) projects have broadened access to scientific
research and enabled different forms of participation in biodiversity research; however, little …