Improving big citizen science data: Moving beyond haphazard sampling

Using Semistructured Surveys to Improve Citizen Science Data for Monitoring Biodiversity

(2019) Steve Kelling et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Using opportunistic citizen science data to estimate avian population trends

(2018) Joshua J. Horns et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Opportunistic citizen science data transform understanding of species distributions, phenology, and diversity gradients for global change research

(2018) Peter Soroye et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Citizen science program detects range expansion of the globally invasive European green crab in Washington State (USA)

(2018) Emily Grason et al.   Management of Biological Invasions

A Hidden Markov Model-Based Acoustic Cicada Detector for Crowdsourced Smartphone Biodiversity Monitoring

(2018) D. Zilli et al.   JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH

Crowdsourcing conservation: The role of citizen science in securing a future for seagrass

(2017) Benjamin L. Jones et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Assessing the reliability of avian biodiversity measures of urban greenspaces using eBird citizen science data

(2017) Corey T. Callaghan et al.   Avian Conservation and Ecology

The influence of motivational factors on the frequency of participation in citizen science activities

(2017) Patrícia Tiago et al.   Nature Conservation-Bulgaria

Crowdsourcing Meets Ecology: Hemisphere-Wide Spatiotemporal Species Distribution Models

(2017) Daniel Fink et al.   AI MAGAZINE

Intelligent Sensing for Citizen Science

(2016) Michael J. O’Grady et al.   MOBILE NETWORKS & APPLICATIONS

Crowdsourcing, Citizen Science or Volunteered Geographic Information? The Current State of Crowdsourced Geographic Information

(2016) Linda See et al.   ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Citizen surveillance for environmental monitoring: combining the efforts of citizen science and crowdsourcing in a quantitative data framework

(2016) Marijke Welvaert et al.   SpringerPlus

Explaining Spatial Variation in the Recording Effort of Citizen Science Data across Multiple Taxa

(2016) Louise Mair et al.   PLoS One

Capitalizing on opportunistic data for monitoring relative abundances of species

(2015) Christophe Giraud et al.   BIOMETRICS

Is my species distribution model fit for purpose? Matching data and models to applications

(2015) Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Crowdsourcing the identification of organisms: A case-study of iSpot

(2015) Jonathan Silvertown et al.   ZooKeys

Citizen-science data provides new insight into annual and seasonal variation in migration patterns

(2015) S. R. Supp et al.   Ecosphere

Can Observation Skills of Citizen Scientists Be Estimated Using Species Accumulation Curves?

(2015) Steve Kelling et al.   PLoS One

The role of urban and agricultural areas during avian migration: an assessment of within-year temporal turnover

(2014) Frank A. La Sorte et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Understanding sampling and taxonomic biases recorded by citizen scientists

(2014) Darren F. Ward   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Lights, Camera…Citizen Science: Assessing the Effectiveness of Smartphone-Based Video Training in Invasive Plant Identification

(2014) Jared Starr et al.   PLoS One

New diatoms from the American West—A tribute to citizen science

(2014) Loren L. Bahls   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA

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

(2014) Nick J. B. Isaac et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Bias correction in species distribution models: pooling survey and collection data for multiple species

(2014) William Fithian et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Realising the full potential of citizen science monitoring programs

(2013) Ayesha I.T. Tulloch et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Statistical solutions for error and bias in global citizen science datasets

(2013) Tomas J. Bird et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

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

(2013) Jan Beck et al.   Ecological Informatics

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

(2013) Arco J. van Strien et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

(2012) Janis L Dickinson et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Weekend bias in Citizen Science data reporting: implications for phenology studies

(2012) Jason R. Courter et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

Knowledge Gain and Behavioral Change in Citizen-Science Programs

(2011) REBECCA C. JORDAN et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Dark diversity: shedding light on absent species

(2011) Meelis Pärtel et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Data-intensive science applied to broad-scale citizen science

(2011) Wesley M. Hochachka et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

eBird: Engaging Birders in Science and Conservation

(2011) Chris Wood et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Spatiotemporal exploratory models for broad-scale survey data

(2010) Daniel Fink et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

A new Red List of British butterflies

(2010) RICHARD FOX et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

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

(2010) Elizabeth H. Boakes et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

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

(2009) Brian L. Sullivan et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION