Contribution of citizen science towards international biodiversity monitoring
Mark Chandler,Linda See,Kyle Copas,Astrid M.Z. Bonde,Bernat C. López,Finn Danielsen,Jan Kristoffer Legind,Siro Masinde,Abraham J. Miller-Rushing,Greg Newman,Alyssa Rosemartin,Eren Turak,Eren Turak +12 more
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In this article, the authors used the Essential Biodiversity Variable framework to describe the range of biodiversity data needed to track progress towards global biodiversity targets, and assessed strengths and gaps in geographical and taxonomic coverage.About:
This article is published in Biological Conservation.The article was published on 2017-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 460 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Measurement of biodiversity & Community-based monitoring.read more
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Taxonomic bias in biodiversity data and societal preferences
TL;DR: Results show that societal preferences, rather than research activity, strongly correlate with taxonomic bias, which lead to assert that scientists should advertise less charismatic species and develop societal initiatives (e.g. citizen science) that specifically target neglected organisms.
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Area-based conservation in the twenty-first century
Sean L. Maxwell,Victor Cazalis,Nigel Dudley,Michael R. Hoffmann,Ana S. L. Rodrigues,Sue Stolton,Piero Visconti,Piero Visconti,Piero Visconti,Stephen Woodley,Naomi Kingston,Edward Lewis,Martine Maron,Bernardo B. N. Strassburg,Bernardo B. N. Strassburg,Bernardo B. N. Strassburg,Amelia S. Wenger,Amelia S. Wenger,Harry Jonas,Oscar Venter,James E. M. Watson,James E. M. Watson +21 more
TL;DR: To be more successful after 2020, area-based conservation must contribute more effectively to meeting global biodiversity goals-ranging from preventing extinctions to retaining the most-intact ecosystems-and must better collaborate with the many Indigenous peoples, community groups and private initiatives that are central to the successful conservation of biodiversity.
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Recommending plant taxa for supporting on-site species identification
TL;DR: It is found that occurrence records are complementary to presence-absence data and using both in combination yields considerably higher recall of 96% along with improved ranking metrics, and a spatio-temporal prior can substantially expedite the overall identification problem.
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Building essential biodiversity variables (EBVs) of species distribution and abundance at a global scale.
W. Daniel Kissling,Jorge A. Ahumada,Anne Bowser,Miguel Fernandez,Miguel Fernandez,Néstor Fernández,Enrique Alonso García,Robert P. Guralnick,Nick J. B. Isaac,Steve Kelling,W. Los,Louise McRae,Jean-Baptiste Mihoub,Jean-Baptiste Mihoub,Matthias Obst,Monica Santamaria,Andrew K. Skidmore,Kristen J. Williams,Donat Agosti,Daniel Amariles,Christos Arvanitidis,Lucy Bastin,Francesca De Leo,Willi Egloff,Jane Elith,Donald Hobern,David Martin,Henrique M. Pereira,Graziano Pesole,Johannes Peterseil,Hannu Saarenmaa,Dmitry Schigel,Dirk S. Schmeller,Dirk S. Schmeller,Nicola Segata,Eren Turak,Eren Turak,Paul F. Uhlir,Brian Wee,Alex Hardisty +39 more
TL;DR: The challenges of a ‘Big Data’ approach to building global EBV data products across taxa and spatiotemporal scales, focusing on species distribution and abundance are assessed.
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Remote sensing of terrestrial plant biodiversity
TL;DR: A review of the history of remote sensing approaches in biodiversity estimation, summarizing the pros and cons of different methods, illustrate successes and major gaps of remote-sensing of biodiversity, and identify promising future directions as mentioned in this paper.
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