Citizen Science and the Urban Ecology of Birds and Butterflies - A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: Citizen science has gained widespread currency as a tool for ecological research over the past decade. However, in the discipline of urban ecology, the existing contributions and future potential of citizen science engagement, specifically in terms of knowledge gain, have not yet been comprehensively explored. Here, we present a systematic review of published work on the urban ecology of birds and butterflies in relation to their use of citizen science data between 2005 and 2014. We compared the number of studies that used citizen science data to the number of studies that could potentially have employed data derived from citizen science. The take-up rates of citizen science data were 21% and 26% for birds and butterflies respectively. Most studies that employed citizen science used volunt

SUBMITTER: Wang Wei J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4902255 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature