Online community photo-sharing in entomology: a large-scale review with suggestions on best practices

MJ Skvarla, JR Fisher - Annals of the Entomological Society of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Over the past 2 decades, digital photography has grown increasingly accessible. This has
ushered in a golden age of community science, where nonspecialists share natural history …

Lista oficial de las aves de Colombia 2022: Adiciones, cambios taxonómicos y actualizaciones de estado

MÁ Echeverry-Galvis… - Ornitología …, 2022 - revistas.ornitologiacolombiana.com
Presentamos una actualización de la lista de las aves de Colombia con base en registros
documentados a partir de septiembre de 2017, siguiendo, por primera vez, criterios …

Citizen scientists study beach litter along 12,000 km of the East Pacific coast: A baseline for the International Plastic Treaty

D De Veer, J Baeza-Álvarez, S Bolaños, SC Araya… - Marine Pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Anthropogenic Marine Litter (AML) accumulating on beaches causes damage to
coastal ecosystems and high costs to local communities. Volunteers sampled AML on 130 …

The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions on participation in community and citizen science

S Drill, C Rosenblatt, C Cooper, D Cavalier… - Citizen Science: Theory …, 2022 - par.nsf.gov
Emergence of the COVID-19 global pandemic severely altered the lives of people worldwide
(Bates et al. 2020). Governments responded by declaring and implementing restrictions on …

[HTML][HTML] Who, where, when: Observer behavior influences spatial and temporal patterns of iNaturalist participation

M Dimson, TW Gillespie - Applied Geography, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the observation process is key to effective use of opportunistic biodiversity
data from low-structure citizen science. We investigated how observer characteristics …

Anthropause environmentalisms: Noticing natures with the self‐isolating bird club

J Turnbull, A Searle, J Lorimer - Transactions of the Institute of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper offers a detailed empirical account of how human–environment relations were
reconfigured in the UK and Ireland during the 2020–2021 COVID‐19 lockdowns, a period …

Experimental evidence that behavioral nudges in citizen science projects can improve biodiversity data

CT Callaghan, M Thompson, A Woods, AGB Poore… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
One way to improve the value of citizen science data for a specific aim is through promoting
adaptive sampling, where the marginal value of a citizen science observation is dependent …

From social networks to bird enthusiasts: reporting interactions between plastic waste and birds in Peru

F Ayala, JK Vizcarra, K Castillo-Morales… - Environmental …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Peru has the second-highest diversity of birds in the world, but little is known about the
interactions between birds and plastic waste. To fill this knowledge gap, we searched the …

Circular economy for packaging and carbon footprint

S Castillo-Benancio, A Alvarez-Risco… - … economy: Impact on …, 2022 - Springer
The academic and scientific literature agreed that the current economic, social, and
environmental contexts require it to be treated immediately, especially in the packaging …

Circular economy for food loss reduction and water footprint

BB Cuya-Velásquez, A Alvarez-Risco… - … Economy: Impact on …, 2022 - Springer
Food loss is a global problem with significant social, economic, and ecological impacts.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a third of the food produced …