Monitoring biological water quality by volunteers complements professional assessments.

ABSTRACT: Progressively more community initiatives have been undertaken over last decades to monitor water quality. Biological data collected by volunteers has been used for biodiversity and water quality studies. Despite the many citizen science projects collecting and using macroinvertebrates, the number of scientific peer-reviewed publications that use this data, remains limited. In 2018, a citizen science project on biological water quality assessment was launched in the Netherlands. In this project, volunteers collect macroinvertebrates from a nearby waterbody, identify and count the number of specimens, and register the catch through a web portal to instantaneously receive a water quality score based on their data. Water quality monitoring in the Netherlands is traditionally the field of profe

SUBMITTER: Peeters ETHM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8880917 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature