Power of the people: A review of citizen science programs for conservation

VJ MacPhail, SR Colla - Biological Conservation, 2020 - Elsevier
Citizen science is a rapidly growing field whereby volunteers can collect and/or analyze data
to contribute to research and gain an appreciation for the environment. There are countless …

Smartphone technologies supporting community-based environmental monitoring and implementation: a systematic sco** review

M Andrachuk, M Marschke, C Hings, D Armitage - Biological Conservation, 2019 - Elsevier
The prospect of leveraging new technologies for community-based environmental
monitoring has captured the imagination of many scientists, policy makers, and conservation …

Citizen science can improve conservation science, natural resource management, and environmental protection

DC McKinley, AJ Miller-Rushing, HL Ballard… - Biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Citizen science has advanced science for hundreds of years, contributed to many peer-
reviewed articles, and informed land management decisions and policies across the United …

Historical redlining is associated with increasing geographical disparities in bird biodiversity sampling in the United States

D Ellis-Soto, M Chapman, DH Locke - Nature Human Behaviour, 2023 - nature.com
Historic segregation and inequality are critical to understanding modern environmental
conditions. Race-based zoning policies, such as redlining in the United States during the …

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 …

Temporal trends in the spatial bias of species occurrence records

DE Bowler, CT Callaghan, N Bhandari, K Henle… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Large‐scale biodiversity databases have great potential for quantifying long‐term trends of
species, but they also bring many methodological challenges. Spatial bias of species …

Sampling and modelling rare species: Conceptual guidelines for the neglected majority

A Jeliazkov, Y Gavish, CJ Marsh… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity conservation faces a methodological conundrum: Biodiversity measurement
often relies on species, most of which are rare at various scales, especially prone to …

Expanding the impact of citizen science

R Bonney - BioScience, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The concept of citizen science, which engages the eyes and ears of volunteers to observe,
record, and share information about the environment, is not new. Its origins go back …

[HTML][HTML] Do big unstructured biodiversity data mean more knowledge?

E Bayraktarov, G Ehmke, J O'Connor… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Conserving species biodiversity demands decisive and effective action. Effective action
requires an understanding of species population dynamics. Therefore, robust measures …

[HTML][HTML] Contributions to conservation outcomes by natural history museum-led citizen science: Examining evidence and next steps

HL Ballard, LD Robinson, AN Young, GB Pauly… - Biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Through their unique combination of specimen collections, scientific and public education
expertise, and wide audience reach and trust, natural history museums (NHMs) are obvious …