Opportunities and limitations: A comparative analysis of citizen science and expert recordings for bioacoustic research.

ABSTRACT: Citizen science is an approach that has become increasingly popular in recent years. Despite this growing popularity, there still is widespread scepticism in the academic world about the validity and quality of data from citizen science projects. And although there might be great potential, citizen science is a rarely used approach in the field of bioacoustics. To better understand the possibilities, but also the limitations, we here evaluated data generated in a citizen science project on nightingale song as a case study. We analysed the quantity and quality of song recordings made in a non-standardized way with a smartphone app by citizen scientists and the standardized recordings made with professional equipment by academic researchers. We made comparisons between the recordings of the

SUBMITTER: Jackel D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8238189 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature