An evaluation of stringent filtering to improve species distribution models from citizen science data

Opportunities and challenges for big data ornithology

(2018) Frank A. La Sorte et al.   CONDOR

Safari Science: assessing the reliability of citizen science data for wildlife surveys

(2017) Cara Steger et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Population estimates for tidal marsh birds of high conservation concern in the northeastern USA from a design-based survey

(2016) Whitney A. Wiest et al.   CONDOR

A generalized approach for producing, quantifying, and validating citizen science data from wildlife images

(2016) Alexandra Swanson et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Unstructured citizen science data fail to detect long-term population declines of common birds in Denmark

(2016) Johannes Kamp et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Evaluating citizen vs. professional data for modelling distributions of a rare squirrel

(2016) Courtney A. Tye et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Data reliability in citizen science: learning curve and the effects of training method, volunteer background and experience on identification accuracy of insects visiting ivy flowers

(2016) Francis L. W. Ratnieks et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Taking a ‘Big Data’ approach to data quality in a citizen science project

(2015) Steve Kelling et al.   AMBIO

spThin: an R package for spatial thinning of species occurrence records for use in ecological niche models

(2015) Matthew E. Aiello-Lammens et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Bird biodiversity assessments in temperate forest: the value of point count versus acoustic monitoring protocols

(2015) Brian T. Klingbeil et al.   PeerJ

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

(2015) Steve Kelling et al.   PLoS One

Mapping large-scale bird distributions using occupancy models and citizen data with spatially biased sampling effort

(2014) Motoki Higa et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Spatial filtering to reduce sampling bias can improve the performance of ecological niche models

(2014) Robert A. Boria et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Understanding sampling and taxonomic biases recorded by citizen scientists

(2014) Darren F. Ward   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection

(2014) S. L. Pimm et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Statistical solutions for error and bias in global citizen science datasets

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

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

(2013) Brian L. Sullivan et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Quantifying the sampling error in tree census measurements by volunteers and its effect on carbon stock estimates

(2013) Nathalie Butt et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

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

Observer effects and avian-call-count survey quality: Rare-species biases and overconfidence

(2012)   AUK

To boldly go where no volunteer has gone before: predicting volunteer activity to prioritize surveys at the landscape scale

(2012) Ayesha I. T. Tulloch et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

A behavioural ecology approach to understand volunteer surveying for citizen science datasets

(2012) Ayesha I. T. Tulloch et al.   EMU

Data validation in citizen science: a case study from Project FeederWatch

(2012) David N Bonter et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Effects of Vegetation, Corridor Width and Regional Land Use on Early Successional Birds on Powerline Corridors

(2012) Robert A. Askins et al.   PLoS One

Quantitative metrics of overlaps in Grinnellian niches: advances and possible drawbacks

(2011) D. Rödder et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Spatial autocorrelation in predictors reduces the impact of positional uncertainty in occurrence data on species distribution modelling

(2011) Babak Naimi et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Misidentification of freshwater mussel species (Bivalvia:Unionidae): contributing factors, management implications, and potential solutions

(2011) Colin P. Shea et al.   JOURNAL OF THE NORTH AMERICAN BENTHOLOGICAL SOCIETY

What spatial data do we need to develop global mammal conservation strategies?

(2011) L. Boitani et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Data-intensive science applied to broad-scale citizen science

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

Integrating biodiversity distribution knowledge: toward a global map of life

(2011) Walter Jetz et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Assessing citizen science data quality: an invasive species case study

(2011) Alycia W. Crall et al.   Conservation Letters

Citizen Science as an Ecological Research Tool: Challenges and Benefits

(2010) Janis L. Dickinson et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Beyond scarcity: citizen science programmes as useful tools for conservation biogeography

(2010) Vincent Devictor et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Spatiotemporal exploratory models for broad-scale survey data

(2010) Daniel Fink et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

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

(2010) Judit K. Szabo et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Predicting species distributions from checklist data using site-occupancy models

(2010) Marc Kéry et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

A method for measuring the relative information content of data from different monitoring protocols

(2010) M. Arthur Munson et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Observer bias and the detection of low-density populations

(2009) Matthew C. Fitzpatrick et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

ECOLOGY: A National Ecological Network for Research and Education

(2009) M. Lowman et al.   SCIENCE

Aligning Conservation Priorities Across Taxa in Madagascar with High-Resolution Planning Tools

(2008) C. Kremen et al.   SCIENCE