Citizen science as an ecological research tool: Challenges and benefits

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 41, Issue , 2010, Pages 149-172

  Dickinson, Janis L ^a,b   Zuckerberg, Benjamin ^a   Bonter, David N ^a  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

biodiversity; climate change; crowdsourcing; fragmentation; geographical ecology; habitat loss; invasive species; macroecology; monitoring; observer quality; population ecology; sampling bias; sampling error; spatial ecology

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; CITIZENSHIP; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT TYPE; INVASIVE SPECIES; MACROECOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIVATE LAND; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK; SAMPLING BIAS;

EID: 78149402921     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102209-144636     Document Type: Article

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