Investigating the potential of social media and citizen science data to track changes in species' distributions.

ABSTRACT: How to best track species as they rapidly alter their distributions in response to climate change has become a key scientific priority. Information on species distributions is derived from biological records, which tend to be primarily sourced from traditional recording schemes, but increasingly also by citizen science initiatives and social media platforms, with biological recording having become more accessible to the general public. To date, however, our understanding of the respective potential of social media and citizen science to complement the information gathered by traditional recording schemes remains limited, particularly when it comes to tracking species on the move with climate change. To address this gap, we investigated how species occurrence observations vary between diffe

SUBMITTER: O'Neill D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10166650 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature