Large-bodied birds are over-represented in unstructured citizen science data.

ABSTRACT: Citizen science platforms are quickly accumulating hundreds of millions of biodiversity observations around the world annually. Quantifying and correcting for the biases in citizen science datasets remains an important first step before these data are used to address ecological questions and monitor biodiversity. One source of potential bias among datasets is the difference between those citizen science programs that have unstructured protocols and those that have semi-structured or structured protocols for submitting observations. To quantify biases in an unstructured citizen science platform, we contrasted bird observations from the unstructured iNaturalist platform with that from a semi-structured citizen science platform-eBird-for the continental United States. We tested whether four t

SUBMITTER: Callaghan CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8463711 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature