Assessing adequacy of citizen science datasets for biodiversity monitoring.

ABSTRACT: Tracking the state of biodiversity over time is critical to successful conservation, but conventional monitoring schemes tend to be insufficient to adequately quantify how species' abundances and distributions are changing. One solution to this issue is to leverage data generated by citizen scientists, who collect vast quantities of data at temporal and spatial scales that cannot be matched by most traditional monitoring methods. However, the quality of citizen science data can vary greatly. In this paper, we develop three metrics (inventory completeness, range completeness, spatial bias) to assess the adequacy of spatial observation data. We explore the adequacy of citizen science data at the species level for Australia's terrestrial native birds and then model these metrics against a sui

SUBMITTER: Backstrom LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10830347 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature