eprintid: 13923 rev_number: 19 eprint_status: archive userid: 353 dir: disk0/00/01/39/23 datestamp: 2016-11-08 07:38:27 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:27:58 status_changed: 2016-11-08 07:38:27 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Chandler, M. creators_name: See, L. creators_name: Copas, K. creators_name: Bonde, A.M.Z. creators_name: López, B.C. creators_name: Danielsen, F. creators_name: Legind, J.K. creators_name: Masinde, S. creators_name: Miller-Rushing, A.J. creators_name: Newman, G. creators_name: Rosemartin, A. creators_name: Turak, E. creators_id: 8571 creators_orcid: 0000-0002-2665-7065 title: Contribution of citizen science towards international biodiversity monitoring ispublished: pub divisions: prog_esm keywords: Citizen science; Community-based monitoring; Databases; Essential biodiversity variables (EBV); Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF); Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) abstract: To meet collective obligations towards biodiversity conservation and monitoring, it is essential that the world's governments and non-governmental organisations as well as the research community tap all possible sources of data and information, including new, fast-growing sources such as citizen science (CS), in which volunteers participate in some or all aspects of environmental assessments. Through compilation of a database on CS and community-based monitoring (CBM, a subset of CS) programs, we assess where contributions from CS and CBM are significant and where opportunities for growth exist. We use the Essential Biodiversity Variable framework to describe the range of biodiversity data needed to track progress towards global biodiversity targets, and we assess strengths and gaps in geographical and taxonomic coverage. Our results show that existing CS and CBM data particularly provide large-scale data on species distribution and population abundance, species traits such as phenology, and ecosystem function variables such as primary and secondary productivity. Only birds, Lepidoptera and plants are monitored at scale. Most CS schemes are found in Europe, North America, South Africa, India, and Australia. We then explore what can be learned from successful CS/CBM programs that would facilitate the scaling up of current efforts, how existing strengths in data coverage can be better exploited, and the strategies that could maximise the synergies between CS/CBM and other approaches for monitoring biodiversity, in particular from remote sensing. More and better targeted funding will be needed, if CS/CBM programs are to contribute further to international biodiversity monitoring. date: 2017-09-02 date_type: published publisher: Elsevier id_number: doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2016.09.004 creators_browse_id: 276 full_text_status: public publication: Biological Conservation volume: 213 number: B pagerange: 280-294 refereed: TRUE issn: 1873-2917 projects: Coordinating an Observation Network of Networks EnCompassing saTellite and IN-situ to fill the Gaps in European Observations (ConnectinGEO, H2020 641538) coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_project: yes fp7_project_id: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/641538/EU/Coordinating an Observation Network of Networks EnCompassing saTellite and IN-situ to fill the Gaps in European Observations/ConnectinGEO fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article access_rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess citation: Chandler, M., See, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2665-7065 , Copas, K., Bonde, A.M.Z., López, B.C., Danielsen, F., Legind, J.K., Masinde, S., et al. (2017). Contribution of citizen science towards international biodiversity monitoring. Biological Conservation 213 (B) 280-294. 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.09.004 . document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13923/1/Contribution%20of%20citizen%20science%20towards%20international%20biodiversity%20monitoring.pdf document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13923/2/Citizen%20science%20data%20guide%20to%20coding%20%28adapted%20from%20Theobald%20et%20al.%20%282015%29%29.docx document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13923/3/A%20data%20base%20of%20citizen%20science%20programs.xls document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13923/4/List%20of%20community-based%20monitoring%20programs%20coded%20by%20location%2C%20taxa%20and%20EBV..pdf document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13923/5/List%20of%20providers%20and%20projects%20to%20GBIF%2C%20along%20with%20location%20and%20whether%20they%20appear%20in%20Scistarter.xls document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13923/6/List%20of%20References%20for%20Table%201.docx