A novel curation system to facilitate data integration across regional citizen science survey programs.

ABSTRACT: Integrative modeling methods can now enable macrosystem-level understandings of biodiversity patterns, such as range changes resulting from shifts in climate or land use, by aggregating species-level data across multiple monitoring sources. This requires ensuring that taxon interpretations match up across different sources. While encouraging checklist standardization is certainly an option, coercing programs to change species lists they have used consistently for decades is rarely successful. Here we demonstrate a novel approach for tracking equivalent names and concepts, applied to a network of 10 regional programs that use the same protocols (so-called "Pollard walks") to monitor butterflies across America north of Mexico. Our system involves, for each monitoring program, associating the

SUBMITTER: Campbell DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7395600 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature