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Differential reporting of biodiversity in two citizen science platforms during COVID-19 lockdown in Colombia
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the potential of using data from long-term citizen science projects to answer questions about the impacts of unexpected events on biodiversity. We evaluate the suitability of data from the citizen science platforms iNaturalist and eBird to describe the effects of th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9186113/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35702146 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109077 |
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author | Sánchez-Clavijo, Lina María Martínez-Callejas, Sindy Jineth Acevedo-Charry, Orlando Diaz-Pulido, Angélica Gómez-Valencia, Bibiana Ocampo-Peñuela, Natalia Ocampo, David Olaya-Rodríguez, María Helena Rey-Velasco, Juan Carlos Soto-Vargas, Carolina Ochoa-Quintero, Jose Manuel |
author_facet | Sánchez-Clavijo, Lina María Martínez-Callejas, Sindy Jineth Acevedo-Charry, Orlando Diaz-Pulido, Angélica Gómez-Valencia, Bibiana Ocampo-Peñuela, Natalia Ocampo, David Olaya-Rodríguez, María Helena Rey-Velasco, Juan Carlos Soto-Vargas, Carolina Ochoa-Quintero, Jose Manuel |
author_sort | Sánchez-Clavijo, Lina María |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the potential of using data from long-term citizen science projects to answer questions about the impacts of unexpected events on biodiversity. We evaluate the suitability of data from the citizen science platforms iNaturalist and eBird to describe the effects of the “anthropause” on biodiversity observation in Colombia. We compared record distribution according to human footprint, sampling behaviors, overall and conservation priority species composition during the strictest phase of the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 to the same periods in 2015–2019. Overall participation in both platforms during the lockdown was high when compared to previous years, but records were concentrated on highly-transformed regions, had lower sampling efforts, and fewer species were recorded. For eBird, species composition was similar to that observed in previous years, and records of species of conservation concern declined in proportion to the decrease in overall species richness across samples. For iNaturalist, the species pool sampled each year remained too dissimilar for comparisons. Once differences in observer behaviors are accounted for, data from these platforms can be used in unplanned comparisons of relatively common species, in regions with high levels of human transformation, and at narrowly defined geographical contexts. To increase the potential of citizen science to monitor rarer species, more natural areas, or be used in large-scale analyses, we need to build and strengthen more diverse networks of observers that can further promote decentralization, democratization, and cost-effectiveness in biodiversity research. |
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spelling | pubmed-91861132022-06-10 Differential reporting of biodiversity in two citizen science platforms during COVID-19 lockdown in Colombia Sánchez-Clavijo, Lina María Martínez-Callejas, Sindy Jineth Acevedo-Charry, Orlando Diaz-Pulido, Angélica Gómez-Valencia, Bibiana Ocampo-Peñuela, Natalia Ocampo, David Olaya-Rodríguez, María Helena Rey-Velasco, Juan Carlos Soto-Vargas, Carolina Ochoa-Quintero, Jose Manuel Biol Conserv Article The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the potential of using data from long-term citizen science projects to answer questions about the impacts of unexpected events on biodiversity. We evaluate the suitability of data from the citizen science platforms iNaturalist and eBird to describe the effects of the “anthropause” on biodiversity observation in Colombia. We compared record distribution according to human footprint, sampling behaviors, overall and conservation priority species composition during the strictest phase of the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 to the same periods in 2015–2019. Overall participation in both platforms during the lockdown was high when compared to previous years, but records were concentrated on highly-transformed regions, had lower sampling efforts, and fewer species were recorded. For eBird, species composition was similar to that observed in previous years, and records of species of conservation concern declined in proportion to the decrease in overall species richness across samples. For iNaturalist, the species pool sampled each year remained too dissimilar for comparisons. Once differences in observer behaviors are accounted for, data from these platforms can be used in unplanned comparisons of relatively common species, in regions with high levels of human transformation, and at narrowly defined geographical contexts. To increase the potential of citizen science to monitor rarer species, more natural areas, or be used in large-scale analyses, we need to build and strengthen more diverse networks of observers that can further promote decentralization, democratization, and cost-effectiveness in biodiversity research. Elsevier Ltd. 2021-04 2021-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9186113/ /pubmed/35702146 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109077 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Sánchez-Clavijo, Lina María Martínez-Callejas, Sindy Jineth Acevedo-Charry, Orlando Diaz-Pulido, Angélica Gómez-Valencia, Bibiana Ocampo-Peñuela, Natalia Ocampo, David Olaya-Rodríguez, María Helena Rey-Velasco, Juan Carlos Soto-Vargas, Carolina Ochoa-Quintero, Jose Manuel Differential reporting of biodiversity in two citizen science platforms during COVID-19 lockdown in Colombia |
title | Differential reporting of biodiversity in two citizen science platforms during COVID-19 lockdown in Colombia |
title_full | Differential reporting of biodiversity in two citizen science platforms during COVID-19 lockdown in Colombia |
title_fullStr | Differential reporting of biodiversity in two citizen science platforms during COVID-19 lockdown in Colombia |
title_full_unstemmed | Differential reporting of biodiversity in two citizen science platforms during COVID-19 lockdown in Colombia |
title_short | Differential reporting of biodiversity in two citizen science platforms during COVID-19 lockdown in Colombia |
title_sort | differential reporting of biodiversity in two citizen science platforms during covid-19 lockdown in colombia |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9186113/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35702146 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109077 |
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