Can opportunistically collected Citizen Science data fill a data gap for habitat suitability models of less common species?

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

(2016) Tatsuya Amano et al.   BIOSCIENCE

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

Evaluating citizen science data for forecasting species responses to national forest management

(2016) Louise Mair et al.   Ecology and Evolution

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

(2016) Louise Mair et al.   PLoS One

Bias and information in biological records

(2015) Nick J. B. Isaac et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Integrated models that unite local and regional data reveal larger-scale environmental relationships and improve predictions of species distributions

(2015) Robert J. Fletcher et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Motoki Higa et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

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

Evaluating temporal variation in Citizen Science Data against temporal variation in the environment

(2013) Tord Snäll et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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 Effects of Sampling Bias and Model Complexity on the Predictive Performance of MaxEnt Species Distribution Models

(2013) Mindy M. Syfert et al.   PLoS One

Species Distribution Models for Crop Pollination: A Modelling Framework Applied to Great Britain

(2013) Chiara Polce et al.   PLoS One

Conservation science relevant to action: A research agenda identified and prioritized by practitioners

(2012) Veronika Braunisch et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Relationships between economic profitability and habitat quality of Siberian jay in uneven-aged Norway spruce forest

(2012) Timo Pukkala et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Long-term effects of forest management on territory occupancy and breeding success of an open-nesting boreal bird species, the Siberian jay

(2012) Michael Griesser et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Presence-only modelling using MAXENT: when can we trust the inferences?

(2012) Charles B. Yackulic et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Evaluating citizen-based presence data for bird monitoring

(2010) Tord Snäll et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Site-Occupancy Distribution Modeling to Correct Population-Trend Estimates Derived from Opportunistic Observations

(2010) MARC KÉRY et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

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

(2010) Vincent Devictor et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

A statistical explanation of MaxEnt for ecologists

(2010) Jane Elith et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

The uncertain nature of absences and their importance in species distribution modelling

(2010) Jorge M. Lobo et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Using monitoring data gathered by volunteers to predict the potential distribution of the invasive alien bumblebee Bombus terrestris

(2009) Taku Kadoya et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

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

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

Sample selection bias and presence-only distribution models: implications for background and pseudo-absence data

(2009) Steven J. Phillips et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Habitat-specific demography and source-sink dynamics in a population of Siberian jays

(2009) Magdalena Nystrand et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

A new dawn for citizen science

(2009) Jonathan Silvertown   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Modeling of species distributions with Maxent: new extensions and a comprehensive evaluation

(2008) Steven J. Phillips et al.   ECOGRAPHY