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Forestry
Davide Nardi, Aurora Bozzini, Giuseppe Morgante, Angelo Gaccione, Valerio Finozzi, Andrea Battisti
Summary: During pest outbreaks, mapping tools are crucial for accurate detection. Participatory projects can provide ground data with high accuracy in detecting early-stage infestations and small spots. However, satellite approaches are essential for estimating infestations due to spatial bias in ground data. This study shows how a participatory approach involving nonspecialized staff and a GIS-based app can provide complementary ground truth data to satellite data.
ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Corey T. Callaghan, Ferran Sayol, Yanina Benedetti, Federico Morelli, Daniel Sol
Summary: Assessing urban tolerance using citizen science data and remote sensing information shows promise, but challenges exist in terms of accuracy and variability in applicability. Future improvements, such as incorporating rare species and understanding intraspecific variability in response to urbanization, will be crucial for maximizing the broad utility of the approach.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Monica Lasky, Arielle W. Parsons, Stephanie G. Schuttler, George Hess, Ron Sutherland, Liz Kalies, Staci Clark, Colleen Olfenbuttel, Jessie Matthews, James S. Clark, Jordan Siminitz, George Davis, Jonathan Shaw, Casey Dukes, Jacob Hill, Roland Kays
Summary: Camera trap surveys provide valuable information on animal species population trends, behavior, and interactions with the environment. The large data set from North Carolina, USA, contains records of 36 mammal species and three species of terrestrial birds, significantly increasing the geographical distribution data available for these species. This data can be used for inquiries into wildlife behavior and ecosystems without copyright restrictions.
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Biology
Corey T. Callaghan, Alistair G. B. Poore, Thomas Mesaglio, Angela T. Moles, Shinichi Nakagawa, Christopher Roberts, Jodi J. L. Rowley, Adriana VergEs, John H. Wilshire, William K. Cornwell
Summary: Citizen science is playing an increasingly important role in biodiversity research, but is underrepresented in current research papers. Three frontiers of citizen science research are proposed, including sampling undersampled areas, utilizing the unique abilities of citizen science, and reducing biases in global biodiversity data sets. The contribution of citizen science to understanding key biodiversity questions should be fully realized.
Article
Plant Sciences
B. Surmacz
Summary: Flower colour polymorphism refers to the presence of multiple colour variants in plant populations, and the study of this phenomenon has led to important discoveries in genetics. In this research, the flower colour variation of Convolvulus arvensis was examined, revealing polymorphic flower colours across the species range. Patterns of colour distribution were observed in different regions, suggesting a potential link between environmental factors and the frequency of different colour morphs. Further investigation is needed to understand the mechanisms behind these patterns.
Article
Ecology
Nalini M. Nadkarni, Jacqueline M. Chen, Jeremy S. Morris, Amanda E. Carriero, Thomas N. Kaye, Kelli Bush, Megan Young, Laura George
Summary: In the past two decades, collaborations between conservationists and the corrections sector have led to the implementation of ecological restoration projects. These projects not only provide opportunities for incarcerated individuals to positively impact their environment, but also allow ecologists to communicate the importance of science and nature to those in nature-deprived environments. This study analyzed the impacts of two conservation projects coordinated by ecologists at the Salt Lake County Jail, Utah, on the incarcerated citizen scientists using quantitative and qualitative approaches. The results showed the potential positive impacts of participation in ecological restoration projects, including increased knowledge, psychological benefits, and community involvement.
ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Armelle Lajeunesse, Yoan Fourcade
Summary: Multiple studies have shown that climate change affects biodiversity by causing changes in species distributions and community composition. However, many taxonomic groups lack long-term monitoring programs, resulting in gaps in our understanding of climate-induced community turnover. In this study, the researchers used data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility to examine how climate change affects community reorganization for nine animal taxonomic groups. They found that there has been a gradual species turnover driven by climate change, leading to an overall increase in warm-adapted species. The researchers also introduced a framework that can be used in future global change research.
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Mohammad Karamouz, Elham Ebrahimi, Arash Ghomlaghi
Summary: This study utilized citizen science and social media to collect soil moisture data, and introduced an innovative approach by evaluating explanatory moisture condition for soil moisture information. The results showed that in developing regions, utilizing satellite and citizen science data has great potential for real-time estimation of scarce soil moisture data.
JOURNAL OF HYDROINFORMATICS
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Oscar H. Marin-Gomez, Claudia Rodriguez Flores, Maria del Coro Arizmendi
Summary: Urbanization is a major threat to biodiversity, but cities can also provide important refuges for native fauna. A study in Mexico City found that hummingbird-plant networks are common in urban areas. Urban parks and natural protected areas have higher species richness of hummingbirds and plants, while all networks exhibit low levels of connectivity, specialization, and nestedness. Promoting pollinator gardens with native species and increasing the presence of native plants in cities can contribute to functional connectivity and restoration of ecological interactions.
URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING
(2022)
Review
Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine
S. Listl, R. Baltussen, A. Carrasco-Labra, F. C. Carrer, J. N. Lavis
Summary: Despite the need for improvement in oral health systems, progress in oral health system transformation has been slow. However, there is an opportunity for the oral health community to learn from previous successes and failures in evidence-informed health policy making.
JOURNAL OF DENTAL RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Biology
Grace J. Di Cecco, Vijay Barve, Michael W. Belitz, Brian J. Stucky, Robert P. Guralnick, Allen H. Hurlbert
Summary: The availability and use of citizen science data, particularly on platforms like iNaturalist, have increased in biodiversity science applications. However, a study on iNaturalist observations revealed spatial and temporal biases, as well as user behaviors where individuals tend to specialize on specific taxonomic groups and rarely observe the same species twice. Biodiversity scientists should be cautious of potential systematic biases in their analyses when utilizing iNaturalist data.
Review
Biology
Kl Prudic, Er Zylstra, Na Melkonoff, Re Laura, Ra Hutchinson
Summary: Insect species are being affected by human-caused global changes, highlighting the need for conservation and management efforts. Recent publications indicate the rapid and significant impact of these changes on ecosystem function and human health. Community scientists are providing valuable data on insect occurrence and abundance through biodiversity platforms, which ecologists use to estimate diversity and distributions and forecast species' responses. Despite challenges in taxonomy and sampling, collaboration between professionals and community scientists is crucial for insect conservation.
CURRENT OPINION IN INSECT SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Biology
Ilias Berberi, Eliot T. Miller, Roslyn Dakin
Summary: Sociality can have both positive and negative effects on competition in ecological networks, depending on the context. In this study, we used a large dataset of bird interactions at backyard feeders to examine the relationship between sociality and dominance hierarchies. We found that solitary species are more likely to displace opponents in one-on-one contests, but social species gain a competitive advantage when in the presence of conspecifics. Additionally, social species have fewer dominance interactions with heterospecifics and more with conspecifics.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Alison Johnston, Eleni Matechou, Emily B. Dennis
Summary: The increasing availability and use of citizen science data in biodiversity research and conservation has led to the development of analytical approaches to address the challenges posed by these datasets. This review highlights the outstanding challenges in analyzing citizen science data for biodiversity monitoring and proposes potential solutions, such as collecting additional data or metadata, combining different datasets, and refining statistical models. Further research and development in these areas can significantly enhance biodiversity monitoring and conservation efforts.
METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Tianxiao Hao, Jane Elith, Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita, Jose J. Lahoz-Monfort, Tom W. May
Summary: Open-access occurrence data for studying spatial patterns of fungi are useful but often have quality issues. Researchers have developed a reproducible pipeline to flag and remove problematic entries, ensuring accuracy of the data. The cleaned Australian fungi data is useful for analyses such as biogeographic regionalisation, but also highlights the need for more surveys to improve collection completeness.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Claire A. Runge, Andrew J. Plantinga, Ashley E. Larsen, David E. Naugle, Kate J. Helmstedt, Stephen Polasky, J. Patrick Donnelly, Joseph T. Smith, Tyler J. Lark, Joshua J. Lawler, Sebastian Martinuzzi, Joe Fargione
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2019)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Andrew J. MacDonald, Ashley E. Larsen, Andrew J. Plantinga
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2019)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Claire A. Runge, John C. Withey, David E. Naugle, Joseph E. Fargione, Kate J. Helmstedt, Ashley E. Larsen, Sebastian Martinuzzi, Jason D. Tack
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ashley E. Larsen, Michael Patton, Emily A. Martin
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2019)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Andrew J. MacDonald, Craig O'Neill, Melissa H. Yoshimizu, Kerry A. Padgett, Ashley E. Larsen
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2019)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Heather Tallis, Katharine Kreis, Lydia Olander, Claudia Ringler, David Ameyaw, Mark E. Borsuk, Diana Fletschner, Edward Game, Daniel O. Gilligan, Marc Jeuland, Gina Kennedy, Yuta J. Masuda, Sumi Mehta, Nicholas Miller, Megan Parker, Carmel Pollino, Julie Rajaratnam, David Wilkie, Wei Zhang, Selena Ahmed, Oluyede C. Ajayi, Harold Alderman, George Arhonditsis, Ines Azevedo, Ruchi Badola, Rob Bailis, Patricia Balvanera, Emily Barbour, Mark Bardini, David N. Barton, Jill Baumgartner, Tim G. Benton, Emily Bobrow, Deborah Bossio, Ann Bostrom, Ademola Braimoh, Eduardo Brondizio, Joe Brown, Benjamin P. Bryant, Ryan Sd Calder, Becky Chaplin-Kramer, Alison Cullen, Nicole DeMello, Katherine L. Dickinson, Kristie L. Ebi, Heather E. Eves, Jessica Fanzo, Paul J. Ferraro, Brendan Fisher, Edward A. Frongillo, Gillian Galford, Dennis Garrity, Lydiah Gatere, Andrew P. Grieshop, Nicola J. Grigg, Craig Groves, Mary Kay Gugerty, Michael Hamm, Xiaoyue Hou, Cindy Huang, Marc Imhoff, Darby Jack, Andrew D. Jones, Rodd Kelsey, Monica Kothari, Ritesh Kumar, Carl Lachat, Ashley Larsen, Mark Lawrence, Fabrice DeClerck, Phillip S. Levin, Edward Mabaya, Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson, Robert McDonald, Georgina Mace, Ricardo Maertens, Dorothy Mangale, Robin Martino, Sara Mason, Lyla Mehta, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Barbara Merz, Siwa Msangi, Grant Murray, Kris A. Murray, Celeste E. Naude, Nathaniel K. Newlands, Ephraim Nkonya, Amber Peterman, Tricia Petruney, Hugh Possingham, Jyotsna Puri, Roseline Remans, Lisa Remlinger, Taylor H. Ricketts, Bedilu Reta, Brian E. Robinson, Dilys Roe, Joshua Rosenthal, Guofeng Shen, Drew Shindell, Ben Stewart-Koster, Terry Sunderland, William J. Sutherland, Josh Tewksbury, Heather Wasser, Stephanie Wear, Chris Webb, Dale Whittington, Marit Wilkerson, Heidi Wittmer, Benjamin D. K. Wood, Stephen Wood, Joyce Wu, Gautam Yadama, Stephanie Zobrist
CURRENT OPINION IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
(2019)
Article
Biology
John Vandermeer, Inge Armbrecht, Aldo De la Mora, Katherine K. Ennis, Gordon Fitch, David J. Gonthier, Zachary Hajian-Forooshani, Hsun-Yi Hsieh, Aaron Iverson, Douglas Jackson, Shalene Jha, Esteli Jimenez-Soto, Gustavo Lopez-Bautista, Ashley Larsen, Kevin Li, Heidi Liere, Andrew Macdonald, Linda Marin, Kaitlyn A. Mathis, Ivan Monagan, Jonathan R. Morris, Theresa Ong, Gabriella L. Pardee, Iris Saraeny Rivera-Salinas, Chatura Vaiyda, Kimberly Williams-Guillen, Senay Yitbarek, Shinsuke Uno, Ash Zemenick, Stacy M. Philpott, Ivette Perfecto
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Matteo Dainese, Emily A. Martin, Marcelo A. Aizen, Matthias Albrecht, Ignasi Bartomeus, Riccardo Bommarco, Luisa G. Carvalheiro, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Vesna Gagic, Lucas A. Garibaldi, Jaboury Ghazoul, Heather Grab, Mattias Jonsson, Daniel S. Karp, Christina M. Kennedy, David Kleijn, Claire Kremen, Douglas A. Landis, Deborah K. Letourneau, Lorenzo Marini, Katja Poveda, Romina Rader, Henrik G. Smith, Teja Tscharntke, Georg K. S. Andersson, Isabelle Badenhausser, Svenja Baensch, Antonio Diego M. Bezerra, Felix J. J. A. Bianchi, Virginie Boreux, Vincent Bretagnolle, Berta Caballero-Lopez, Pablo Cavigliasso, Aleksandar Cetkovic, Natacha P. Chacoff, Alice Classen, Sarah Cusser, Felipe D. da Silva e Silva, G. Arjen de Groot, Jan H. Dudenhoeffer, Johan Ekroos, Thijs Fijen, Pierre Franck, Breno M. Freitas, Michael P. D. Garratt, Claudio Gratton, Juliana Hipolito, Andrea Holzschuh, Lauren Hunt, Aaron L. Iverson, Shalene Jha, Tamar Keasar, Tania N. Kim, Miriam Kishinevsky, Bjorn K. Klatt, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Kristin M. Krewenka, Smitha Krishnan, Ashley E. Larsen, Claire Lavigne, Heidi Liere, Bea Maas, Rachel E. Mallinger, Eliana Martinez Pachon, Alejandra Martinez-Salinas, Timothy D. Meehan, Matthew G. E. Mitchell, Gonzalo A. R. Molina, Maike Nesper, Lovisa Nilsson, Megan E. O'Rourke, Marcell K. Peters, Milan Plecas, Simon G. Potts, Davi de L. Ramos, Jay A. Rosenheim, Maj Rundlof, Adrien Rusch, Agustin Saez, Jeroen Scheper, Matthias Schleuning, Julia M. Schmack, Amber R. Sciligo, Colleen Seymour, Dara A. Stanley, Rebecca Stewart, Jane C. Stout, Louis Sutter, Mayura B. Takada, Hisatomo Taki, Giovanni Tamburini, Matthias Tschumi, Blandina F. Viana, Catrin Westphal, Bryony K. Willcox, Stephen D. Wratten, Akira Yoshioka, Carlos Zaragoza-Trello, Wei Zhang, Yi Zou, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Ashley E. Larsen, D. Nakoa Farrant, Andrew J. MacDonald
AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT
(2020)
Article
Ecology
Jason Matthiopoulos, John Fieberg, Geert Aarts, Frederic Barraquand, Bruce E. Kendall
AMERICAN NATURALIST
(2020)
Letter
Ecology
Judy Che-Castaldo, Owen R. Jones, Bruce E. Kendall, Jean H. Burns, Dylan Z. Childs, Thomas H. G. Ezard, Haydee Hernandez-Yanez, David J. Hodgson, Eelke Jongejans, Tiffany Knight, Cory Merow, Satu Ramula, Iain Stott, Yngvild Vindenes, Hiroyuki Yokomizo, Roberto Salguero-Gomez
ECOLOGICAL MODELLING
(2020)
Editorial Material
Ecology
Elizabeth S. Forbes, Peter S. Alagona, Andrea J. Adams, Sarah E. Anderson, Kevin C. Brown, Jolie Colby, Scott D. Cooper, Sean M. Denny, Elizabeth H. T. Hiroyasu, Robert Heilmayr, Bruce E. Kendall, Jennifer A. Martin, Molly Hardesty-Moore, Alexis M. Mychajliw, Brian P. Tyrrell, Zoe S. Welch
TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2020)
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Rae Taylor-Burns, Courtney Cochran, Kelly Ferron, Madison Harris, Courtney Thomas, Alexa Fredston, Bruce E. Kendall
Correction
Ecology
T. Coulson, S. Schindler, L. Traill, B. E. Kendall
JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT
(2019)