A Vision for Global Biodiversity Monitoring With Citizen Science

Global Biodiversity Scenarios for the Year 2100

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Freshwater biodiversity: importance, threats, status and conservation challenges

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Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity

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Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines

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Consequences of changing biodiversity

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Vive la différence: plant functional diversity matters to ecosystem processes

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Parallel Declines in Pollinators and Insect-Pollinated Plants in Britain and the Netherlands

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Ecosystems and human well-being: a framework for assessment

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Citizen Science: A Developing Tool for Expanding Science Knowledge and Scientific Literacy

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eBird: A citizen-based bird observation network in the biological sciences

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Global Biodiversity Conservation: The Critical Role of Hotspots

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Essential Biodiversity Variables

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Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees

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The current state of citizen science as a tool for ecological research and public engagement

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A review of citizen science and community-based environmental monitoring: issues and opportunities

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Public Participation in Scientific Research: a Framework for Deliberate Design

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Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity Data Standard

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Next Steps for Citizen Science

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

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A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets

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The eBird enterprise: An integrated approach to development and application of citizen science

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Biodiversity losses and conservation responses in the Anthropocene

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Global patterns of terrestrial vertebrate diversity and conservation

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Assessing data quality in citizen science

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Taxonomic bias in biodiversity data and societal preferences

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Global change and local solutions: Tapping the unrealized potential of citizen science for biodiversity research

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Distorted Views of Biodiversity: Spatial and Temporal Bias in Species Occurrence Data

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Contribution of citizen science towards international biodiversity monitoring

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Social Capital in Biodiversity Conservation and Management

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Weaving knowledge systems in IPBES, CBD and beyond—lessons learned for sustainability

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Spatial bias in the GBIF database and its effect on modeling species' geographic distributions

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Fifty years of deforestation and forest fragmentation in Madagascar

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The science and application of ecological monitoring

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Satellite remote sensing for applied ecologists: opportunities and challenges

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Citizen Science Terminology Matters: Exploring Key Terms

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Tea Bag Index: a novel approach to collect uniform decomposition data across ecosystems

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HABITAT LOSS, TROPHIC COLLAPSE, AND THE DECLINE OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

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Multidimensional biases, gaps and uncertainties in global plant occurrence information

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Monitoring Matters: Examining the Potential of Locally-based Approaches

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Realising the full potential of citizen science monitoring programs

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Statistics for citizen science: extracting signals of change from noisy ecological data

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Impacts of neonicotinoid use on long-term population changes in wild bees in England

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Dynamic changes in motivation in collaborative citizen-science projects

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Local Participation in Natural Resource Monitoring: a Characterization of Approaches

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Real-time remote monitoring of water quality: a review of current applications, and advancements in sensor, telemetry, and computing technologies

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Public Participation in Scientific Research: Defining the Field and Assessing Its Potential for Informal Science Education. A CAISE Inquiry Group Report.

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Biodiversity Hotspots

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EpiCollect: Linking Smartphones to Web Applications for Epidemiology, Ecology and Community Data Collection

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Youth-focused citizen science: Examining the role of environmental science learning and agency for conservation

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Data-intensive science applied to broad-scale citizen science

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Opportunistic citizen science data of animal species produce reliable estimates of distribution trends if analysed with occupancy models

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The diversity and evolution of ecological and environmental citizen science

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Historical bias in biodiversity inventories affects the observed environmental niche of the species

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Advantages of Volunteer‐Based Biodiversity Monitoring in Europe

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Bias and information in biological records

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The tropical biodiversity data gap: addressing disparity in global monitoring

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Global biodiversity monitoring: From data sources to Essential Biodiversity Variables

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Erratum: Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity

Vörösmarty, C. J., McIntyre, P. B., Gessner, M. O., Dudgeon, D. L., Prusevich, A., Green, P., Glidden, S., Bunn, S. E., Sullivan, C. A., Liermann, C. R., et al. (2010) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature09549 · Cited by 325

Citizens, science and bird conservation

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Building essential biodiversity variables ( EBV s) of species distribution and abundance at a global scale

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Butterfly monitoring in Europe: methods, applications and perspectives

van Swaay, C. A. M., Nowicki, P., Settele, J., & van Strien, A. J. (2008) · Biodiversity and Conservation · doi:10.1007/s10531-008-9491-4 · Cited by 297

Spatial Gaps in Global Biodiversity Information and the Role of Citizen Science

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Interoperability of Biodiversity Databases: Biodiversity Information on Every Desktop

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Filling in biodiversity threat gaps

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Civic ecology practices: Participatory approaches to generating and measuring ecosystem services in cities

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A vision for global monitoring of biological invasions

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‘No Personal Motive?’ Volunteers, Biodiversity, and the False Dichotomies of Participation

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Declines in Common, Widespread Butterflies in a Landscape under Intense Human Use

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Quality assessment using River Habitat Survey data

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Parataxonomy vs. taxonomy in biodiversity studies – pitfalls and applicability of ‘morphospecies’ sorting

Krell, F. (2004) · Biodiversity and Conservation · doi:10.1023/b:bioc.0000011727.53780.63 · Cited by 260

Why watch bees? Motivations of citizen science volunteers in the Great Pollinator Project

Domroese, M. C., & Johnson, E. A. (2016) · Biological Conservation · doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2016.08.020 · Cited by 258

Ten principles of citizen science

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Detecting Insect Pollinator Declines on Regional and Global Scales

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Recruiting and Retaining Participants in Citizen Science: What Can Be Learned from the Volunteering Literature?

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Fresh water goes global

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The 2010 challenge: data availability, information needs and extraterrestrial insights

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Rare Species and the Use of Indicator Groups for Conservation Planning

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The Biological Records Centre: a pioneer of citizen science

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Next-Generation Global Biomonitoring: Large-scale, Automated Reconstruction of Ecological Networks

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Important bird areas in Kenya

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Building capacity in biodiversity monitoring at the global scale

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Correcting for bias in distribution modelling for rare species using citizen science data

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Rediscovering the Potential of Indigenous Storytelling for Conservation Practice

Fernández-Llamazares, Á., & Cabeza, M. (2018) · Conservation Letters · doi:10.1111/conl.12398 · Cited by 181

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Testing the use of interviews as a tool for monitoring trends in the harvesting of wild species

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Public involvement in EA in Canada: a transformative learning perspective

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From Energetics to Ecosystems: The Dynamics and Structure of Ecological Systems

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Developing the global potential of citizen science: Assessing opportunities that benefit people, society and the environment in East Africa

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The use of opportunistic data for IUCN Red List assessments

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Climate change adaptation for conservation in Madagascar

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Citzen Science

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Volunteer Stream Monitoring and Local Participation in Natural Resource Issues

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Community-based Monitoring of Natural Resource Use and Forest Quality in Montane Forests and Miombo Woodlands of Tanzania

Topp-Jorgensen, E. J., Poulsen, M. K., Lund, J. F., & Massao, J. (2005) · Biodiversity and Conservation · doi:10.1007/s10531-005-8399-5 · Cited by 146

Regional avian species declines estimated from volunteer-collected long-term data using List Length Analysis

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Emerging technologies for biological recording

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The Contributions of Community-Based Monitoring and Traditional Knowledge to Arctic Observing Networks: Reflections on the State of the Field

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Species distribution models for a migratory bird based on citizen science and satellite tracking data

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Increasing Conservation Management Action by Involving Local People in Natural Resource Monitoring

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Line Transect Surveys Underdetect Terrestrial Mammals: Implications for the Sustainability of Subsistence Hunting

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Is citizen science an open science in the case of biodiversity observations?

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Can citizen science monitor whale-shark aggregations? Investigating bias in mark–recapture modelling using identification photographs sourced from the public

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Acoustic Telemetry Validates a Citizen Science Approach for Monitoring Sharks on Coral Reefs

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Counting what counts: using local knowledge to improve Arctic resource management

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Using citizen science to monitor pollination services

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Reshaping Conservation: The Social Dynamics of Participatory Monitoring in Tanzania′s Community-managed Forests

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Testing Focus Groups as a Tool for Connecting Indigenous and Local Knowledge on Abundance of Natural resources with Science‐Based Land Management Systems

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Modelling relationships between lichen bioindicators, air quality and climate on a national scale: Results from the UK OPAL air survey

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Citizen science datasets reveal drivers of spatial and temporal variation for anthropogenic litter on Great Lakes beaches

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A new Coryphoid palm genus from Madagascar

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Plant‐O‐Matic: a dynamic and mobile guide to all plants of the Americas

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Natural Language Generation for Nature Conservation: Automating Feedback to Help Volunteers Identify Bumblebee Species

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