Citizen science initiatives and the data they produce are increasingly common in ecology,
conservation and biodiversity monitoring. Although the quality of citizen science data has …

Smartphone apps have enhanced the potential for monitoring of invasive alien species (IAS)
through citizen science. They now have the capacity to massively increase the volume and …

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 …

Although species are being lost at alarming rates, previous research has provided
conflicting results on the extent and even direction of global biodiversity change at the local …

Despite conservation commitments, most countries still lack large-scale biodiversity
monitoring programs to track progress toward agreed targets. Monitoring program design is …

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

Citizen science is fundamentally shifting the future of biodiversity research. But although
citizen science observations are contributing an increasingly large proportion of biodiversity …

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 …

Monitoring urban biodiversity is increasingly important, given the increasing anthropogenic
pressures on biodiversity in urban areas. While the cost of broad-scale monitoring by …

Systematic monitoring of species across their geographic ranges is a critical part of
conservation but it is resource-intensive, costly, and difficult to organize and maintain in the …