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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This article is based on bird citizen science, but looks useful for us as well. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Full article <a href="https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/69/3/170/5382641?MessageRunDetailID=144195970&PostID=4679742&utm_source=rasa_io">online</a>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Using Semistructured Surveys to Improve Citizen Science Data for Monitoring Biodiversity <o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="javascript:;">Steve Kelling</a> <a href="javascript:;">Alison Johnston</a> <a href="javascript:;">Aletta Bonn</a> <a href="javascript:;">Daniel Fink</a><a href="javascript:;">Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez</a> <a href="javascript:;">Rick Bonney</a> <a href="javascript:;">Miguel Fernandez</a> <a href="javascript:;">Wesley M Hochachka</a><a href="javascript:;">Romain Julliard</a> <a href="javascript:;">Roland Kraemer</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="javascript:;">Robert Guralnick</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>BioScience</i>, Volume 69, Issue 3, March 2019, Pages 170–179,<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz010">https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz010</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Published: </b>18 March 2019<b><o:p></o:p></b></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'> Split View<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><a href="https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article-pdf/69/3/170/28140094/biz010.pdf">PDF</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><a href="https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/69/3/170/5382641?MessageRunDetailID=144195970&PostID=4679742&utm_source=rasa_io">Cite</a><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Abstract<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='margin-left:5.4pt;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=85 valign=top style='width:63.9pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f">
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