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Automatically identifying, counting, and describing wild animals in camera-trap images with deep learning Open
Significance Motion-sensor cameras in natural habitats offer the opportunity to inexpensively and unobtrusively gather vast amounts of data on animals in the wild. A key obstacle to harnessing their potential is the great cost of having hu…
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American Gut: an Open Platform for Citizen Science Microbiome Research Open
We show that a citizen science, self-selected cohort shipping samples through the mail at room temperature recaptures many known microbiome results from clinically collected cohorts and reveals new ones. Of particular interest is integrati…
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Contribution of citizen science towards international biodiversity monitoring Open
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 informa…
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New Tools for New Research in Psychiatry: A Scalable and Customizable Platform to Empower Data Driven Smartphone Research Open
Background A longstanding barrier to progress in psychiatry, both in clinical settings and research trials, has been the persistent difficulty of accurately and reliably quantifying disease phenotypes. Mobile phone technology combined with…
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What Is Citizen Science? – A Scientometric Meta-Analysis Open
Results indicate that there are three main focal points of CS. The largest is composed of research on biology, conservation and ecology, and utilizes CS mainly as a methodology of collecting and classifying data. A second strand of researc…
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BirdNET: A deep learning solution for avian diversity monitoring Open
Variation in avian diversity in space and time is commonly used as a metric to assess environmental changes. Conventionally, such data were collected by expert observers, but passively collected acoustic data is rapidly emerging as an alte…
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Emerging opportunities and challenges for passive acoustics in ecological assessment and monitoring Open
High‐throughput environmental sensing technologies are increasingly central to global monitoring of the ecological impacts of human activities. In particular, the recent boom in passive acoustic sensors has provided efficient, noninvasive,…
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Citizen Science Terminology Matters: Exploring Key Terms Open
Much can be at stake depending on the choice of words used to describe citizen science, because terminology impacts how knowledge is developed. Citizen science is a quickly evolving eld that is mobilizing people’s involvement in informatio…
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AudioMoth: Evaluation of a smart open acoustic device for monitoring biodiversity and the environment Open
The cost, usability and power efficiency of available wildlife monitoring equipment currently inhibits full ground‐level coverage of many natural systems. Developments over the last decade in technology, open science, and the sharing econo…
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Machine learning to classify animal species in camera trap images: Applications in ecology Open
Motion‐activated cameras (“camera traps”) are increasingly used in ecological and management studies for remotely observing wildlife and are amongst the most powerful tools for wildlife research. However, studies involving camera traps res…
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Drones count wildlife more accurately and precisely than humans Open
Knowing how many individuals are in a wildlife population allows informed management decisions to be made. Ecologists are increasingly using technologies, such as remotely piloted aircraft (RPA; commonly known as “drones,” unmanned aerial …
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Crowdsourcing, Citizen Science or Volunteered Geographic Information? The Current State of Crowdsourced Geographic Information Open
Citizens are increasingly becoming an important source of geographic information, sometimes entering domains that had until recently been the exclusive realm of authoritative agencies. This activity has a very diverse character as it can, …
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Citizen science in environmental and ecological sciences Open
Citizen science is an increasingly acknowledged approach applied in many scientific domains, and particularly within the environmental and ecological sciences, in which non-professional participants contribute to data collection to advance…
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“Citizen Science”? Rethinking Science and Public Participation Open
Since the late twentieth century, “citizen science” has become an increasingly fashionable label for a growing number of participatory research activities. This paper situates the origins and rise of the term “citizen science” and contextu…
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Mapping citizen science contributions to the UN sustainable development goals Open
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a vision for achieving a sustainable future. Reliable, timely, comprehensive, and consistent data are critical for measuring progress towards, and ultimately achieving, the SDGs. Data from ci…
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Youth-focused citizen science: Examining the role of environmental science learning and agency for conservation Open
Citizen science by youth is rapidly expanding, but very little research has addressed the ways programs meet the dual goals of rigorous conservation science and environmental science education. We examined case studies of youth-focused com…
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Global Patterns and Drivers of Bee Distribution Open
Insects are the focus of many recent studies suggesting population declines, but even invaluable pollination service providers such as bees lack a modern distributional synthesis. Here, we combine a uniquely comprehensive checklist of bee …
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Uses and Misuses of Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Science and Conservation Open
The study of environmental DNA (eDNA) has the potential to revolutionize biodiversity science and conservation action by enabling the census of species on a global scale in near real time. To achieve this promise, technical challenges must…
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Optimizing the use of biologgers for movement ecology research Open
The paradigm‐changing opportunities of biologging sensors for ecological research, especially movement ecology, are vast, but the crucial questions of how best to match the most appropriate sensors and sensor combinations to specific biolo…
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The diversity and evolution of ecological and environmental citizen science Open
Citizen science-the involvement of volunteers in data collection, analysis and interpretation-simultaneously supports research and public engagement with science, and its profile is rapidly rising. Citizen science represents a diverse rang…
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HESS Opinions: Incubating deep-learning-powered hydrologic science advances as a community Open
Recently, deep learning (DL) has emerged as a revolutionary and versatile tool transforming industry applications and generating new and improved capabilities for scientific discovery and model building. The adoption of DL in hydrology has…
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Gravity Spy: integrating advanced LIGO detector characterization, machine learning, and citizen science Open
With the first direct detection of gravitational waves, the advanced laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory (LIGO) has initiated a new field of astronomy by providing an alternative means of sensing the universe. The extreme s…
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The Accuracy of Citizen Science Data: A Quantitative Review Open
Citizen science involves volunteers who participate in scientific research by collecting data, monitoring sites, and even taking part in the whole process of scientific inquiry (Roy et al. 2012, Scyphers et al. 2015). In the past two decad…
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Situating Ecology as a Big-Data Science: Current Advances, Challenges, and Solutions Open
Ecology has joined a world of big data. Two complementary frameworks define big data: data that exceed the analytical capacities of individuals or disciplines or the "Four Vs" axes of volume, variety, veracity, and velocity. Variety predom…
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Our path to better science in less time using open data science tools Open
Reproducibility has long been a tenet of science but has been challenging to achieve-we learned this the hard way when our old approaches proved inadequate to efficiently reproduce our own work. Here we describe how several free software t…
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Analytical guidelines to increase the value of community science data: An example using eBird data to estimate species distributions Open
Aim Ecological data collected by the general public are valuable for addressing a wide range of ecological research and conservation planning, and there has been a rapid increase in the scope and volume of data available. However, data fro…
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Reintroducing mothur: 10 Years Later Open
More than 10 years ago, we published the paper describing the mothur software package in Applied and Environmental Microbiology . Our goal was to create a comprehensive package that allowed users to analyze amplicon sequence data using the…
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What Is Citizen Science? The Challenges of Definition Open
In this chapter, we address the perennial question of what is citizen science? by asking the related question, why is it challenging to define citizen science? Over the past decade and a half, we have seen the emergence of typologies, defi…
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A generalized approach for producing, quantifying, and validating citizen science data from wildlife images Open
Citizen science has the potential to expand the scope and scale of research in ecology and conservation, but many professional researchers remain skeptical of data produced by nonexperts. We devised an approach for producing accurate, reli…
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Citizen Science : Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy Open
Citizen science, the active participation of the public in scientific research projects, is a rapidly expanding field in open science and open innovation. It provides an integrated model of public knowledge production and engagement with s…