Fungal conservation is gaining momentum globally, but many challenges remain. To
advance further, more data are needed on fungal diversity across space and time …

The transformation from authoritative to user-generated data landscapes has garnered
considerable attention, notably with the proliferation of crowdsourced geospatial data …

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 …

As human density increases, biodiversity must increasingly co-exist with urbanization or face
local extinction. Tolerance of urban areas has been linked to numerous functional traits, yet …

The rise of passive acoustic monitoring and the rapid growth in large audio datasets is
driving the development of analysis methods that allow ecological inferences to be drawn …

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

Abstract Information on species' distributions, abundances, and how they change over time
is central to the study of the ecology and conservation of animal populations. This …

Measuring the completeness of survey inventories created by citizen‐science initiatives can
identify the strengths and shortfalls in our knowledge of where species occur geographically …

Conservation planning requires extensive amounts of data, yet data collection is expensive,
and there is often a trade‐off between the quantity and quality of data that can be collected …

Data deficiencies among rare or cryptic species preclude assessment of community‐level
processes using many existing approaches, limiting our understanding of the trends and …