[PCA] Citizen science methodology article

[Emily Roberson]

This article is based on bird citizen science, but looks useful for us as
well. 

 

Full article online
<https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/69/3/170/5382641?MessageRunDeta
ilID=144195970&PostID=4679742&utm_source=rasa_io> . 

 

Using Semistructured Surveys to Improve Citizen Science Data for Monitoring
Biodiversity 

Steve Kelling <javascript:;>  Alison Johnston <javascript:;>  Aletta Bonn
<javascript:;>  Daniel Fink <javascript:;> Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez
<javascript:;>  Rick Bonney <javascript:;>  Miguel Fernandez <javascript:;>
Wesley M Hochachka <javascript:;> Romain Julliard <javascript:;>  Roland
Kraemer <javascript:;>  

Robert Guralnick <javascript:;> 

BioScience, Volume 69, Issue 3, March 2019, Pages
170-179,https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz010

Published:  18 March 2019

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Abstract

Biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate, and monitoring is
crucial for understanding the causal drivers and assessing solutions. Most
biodiversity monitoring data are collected by volunteers through citizen
science projects, and often crucial information is lacking to account for
the inevitable biases that observers introduce during data collection. We
contend that citizen science projects intended to support biodiversity
monitoring must gather information about the observation process as well as
species occurrence. We illustrate this using eBird, a global citizen science
project that collects information on bird occurrences as well as vital
contextual information on the observation process while maintaining broad
participation. Our fundamental argument is that regardless of what species
are being monitored, when citizen science projects collect a small set of
basic information about how participants make their observations, the
scientific value of the data collected will be dramatically improved.

 

 

 

 




Emily Brin Roberson, Ph.D.

Director

Native Plant Conservation Campaign 

Native Plant Society of the United States

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