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Citizen science data on the presence of invasive mosquitoes in Hungary

<ol> <li>Climate change, intensified tourism and trade activity result in several exotic mosquito species invading the temperate zone, which has considerable ecological and economic consequences and threatens human health due to the pathogen-transmitting role of these organisms. Accordingly, three invasive mosquito species (Aedes albopictus, Ae. japonicus, and Ae. koreicus) have been described in the last decade in Hungary, a Central European country. It is crucial to understand how invasive species are introduced and their distribution is expanded at the country-level, for which intense surveillance programs are needed.</li> <li>We have established a citizen science program, in which we asked the public to submit reports on their observations of invasive mosquitoes. During a three-year campaign, we have collected and taxonomically validated about 3,000 reports that can be arranged along both the temporal and spatial scales. We aggregated these observations into 35 km2 quadrats and examined if these can be reliably used for scientific inferences.</li> <li>We first found that the number of validated reports in a quadrat depends on the underlying sampling effort (i.e., number of total reports), but this relationship varies among species and study years. Second, after controlling for study effort, we showed that the prevalence and presence/absence of invasive mosquitoes within quadrats are significantly repeatable among years, but this consistency varies in a species-specific way. Third, we demonstrated that conclusions about the local presence/absence of focal species based on citizen reports corroborate well the results of direct field sampling with conventional trapping protocols. </li> <li> Synthesis and applications. We suggest that if the reporting intensity is appropriate (i.e., the number of reports reaches a species-specific threshold), citizen science results can be used to derive biologically meaningful conclusions about the distribution of invasive mosquitoes in a country. Distribution maps of the three invasive species in Hungary can be used to identify ecological predictors that determine such spatial patterns and also to develop a mosquito control program and assess epidemiological risk. </li> </ol>

opencc-zeroApr 2023View details →

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Tracking marine tetrapod carcasses using a low-cost mixed methodology with GPS trackers, passive drifters, and citizen science

<div> <ol> <li> Drift experiments are essential to understand stranding patterns and to estimate the mortality of beached animals. Most studies do not use telemetry technology due to the high costs of this methodology. The objective of this paper is to describe the possibilities of tracking marine tetrapod carcasses with a low-cost and replicable methodology. The study was conducted in the Southern Subtropical Shelf (~ 28º–34º S), a highly productive and key ecological region of the southwestern Atlantic Ocean (SWA). </li> <li> We designed and tested a low-cost mixed methodology including Global Positioning System trackers, passive drifters (reused glass bottles), and Citizen Science (through instant message platform and email) for tracking carcasses of marine tetrapods. We performed four drift experiments, during the four seasons of 2019. We released 787 drifters (600 non-biological and 187 carcasses of seabirds, sea turtles, and cetaceans) at sea, at five equally separated distances (5–25 km) from the coast. Beach surveys and Citizen Science were implemented to recover the beached drifters. </li> <li> We recovered 71.83% of non-biological and 27.27% of carcasses released. We tracked the movements of 38 carcasses (25 sea turtles and 13 cetaceans) with 17 GPS devices. The drifting time, until reaching the beach, ranged from 12h to 17 days for carcasses and 12h to 406 days for bottles. Citizen Science was the most important source of recoveries of non-biological drifters, representing 66.67% of the total bottles recovered. For carcasses, active search was the most important recovery source, representing 64.7% of the total carcasses recovered. </li> <li> Our study contributes with new findings about drift patterns of marine tetrapods in the SWA and describes an accessible low-cost mixed methodology for small and medium-budget projects that can be replicated in other coastal regions of the world for tracking a wide range of marine tetrapod species. </li> </ol> </div>

opencc-zeroMay 2023View details →

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Source data for the scientometric analysis of citizen science research publications

Source data for the scientometric comparison of citizen science research (n=5749 documents) and a semi-random sample of publications (n=5734) retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection and published between 1997-2021. The data include information on: author(s) full name(s) ("AF"); year of publication ("PY"); title ("TI"); Digital Object Identifier ("DI"); abstract ("AB"); open access indicator ("OA"); author(s) affiliation(s) ("C1"); document type ("DT"); funding entity ("FU"); funding text ("FX"); total number of citations ("TC"); and identifier of the collection ("group"): CS for citizen science and SRS for the semi-random sample collection respectively.

opencc-by-4.0Jun 2023View details →

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Peer Production in Citizen Science: A Community-Centered Approach on the Example of Personal Science - Supplementary Materials

This folder contains supplementary materials for the PhD thesis “Peer Production in Citizen Science: A Community-Centered Approach on the Example of Personal Science” by Katharina Kloppenborg. This project has been led at Université Paris Cité / Inserm U1284 from 2020 to 2023 and was supervised by Bastian Greshake Tzovaras and Ariel Lindner.

opencc-by-4.0Aug 2023View details →

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Co-design of a citizen science study: unlocking the potential of eDNA for volunteer freshwater monitoring

<ol> <li>Citizen science is increasingly being promoted as a means of gathering more data to help inform the management of ecosystems. Involving the participants in the design of data collection activities is a form of co-design often proposed by those calling for a translational ecology.</li> <li>In addition, novel monitoring approaches have the potential to improve the quality of data collected by citizen scientists. We explored the potential of environmental DNA (eDNA) for vertebrate (mainly fish) species monitoring through a co-designed catchment monitoring strategy. </li> <li>Having been introduced to the potential of eDNA, citizen scientists designed and executed an eDNA-based survey of a small chalk stream catchment to explore questions of concern.</li> <li>The eDNA monitoring approach provided data about fish and other vertebrate diversity in the catchment which would have otherwise required sampling approaches difficult for citizen scientists. These data give a preliminary answer to some of the citizen scientists' priority questions and are comparable to fish data collected through traditional electrofishing surveys.</li> <li>Recommendations are offered for co-design and the use of novel research techniques by citizen scientists.</li> </ol>

opencc-zeroAug 2023View details →

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Multiplier Event 7 (E7) : Citizen Science for Librarians: open access resources from a teaching/learning perspective

Event: Piliečių mokslas bibliotekininkams: atvirosios prieigos i&scaron;tekliai mokymo(si) perspektyvoje (Citizen Science for Librarians: open access resources from a teaching/learning perspective) Date: 24.05.2024 Language: Lithuanian Target group: Lithuanian academic and public library staff LIBOCS Multiplier Event number 7  Objectives of the event: 1. present the open access collection of resources on citizen science (PR6A1) 2. to present Citizen Science toolkit for Librarians (PR6A2) and its potential or use in teaching and learning 3. to demonstrate all the project results on Zenodo platform Project acronym: LibOCS Full project title: University libraries strengthening the academia-society connection through citizen science in the Baltics This project is funded under the Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Partnerships program. Project Number: 2021-1-EE01-KA220-HED-000031125

opencc-by-4.0Aug 2024View details →

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Citizen Science to Promote Sustained Physical Activity in Low-Income Communities

ClinicalTrials.gov study NCT03041415. IPD Sharing: YES. Countries: 1. Publications: 2.

controlledIPD-YESFeb 2026View details →

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