Citizen Science and Bird–Distribution Data: AN Opportunity for Geographical Research*

Yaukey, Peter H.

doi:10.1111/j.1931-0846.2010.00026.x

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“…All these citizen datasets are biased in terms of spatial and temporal coverage (Dickinson et al 2010;Yaukey 2010) and they oversample in places where more people live (Sullivan et al 2009). Some programs have more standardized protocols than others (Yaukey 2010) and all of them are subject to errors in identification and detectability (Sullivan et al 2009).…”

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“…Some programs have more standardized protocols than others (Yaukey 2010) and all of them are subject to errors in identification and detectability (Sullivan et al 2009). However, based on expert lists of birds in an area potentially faulty sightings are flagged, and regional experts determine whether they should be removed from the database (Sullivan et al 2009).…”

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Substitutable habitats? The biophysical and anthropogenic drivers of an exotic bird’s distribution

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Substitutable habitats? The biophysical and anthropogenic drivers of an exotic bird’s distribution

2013

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“…A valuable means to increase monitoring capacity is to recruit volunteers and members of the public to gather scientific information using “citizen science” (Bonney et al ). For example, several avian studies mined data from the Breeding Bird Survey, a long‐term data set of volunteer observations, to analyze population trends on a large geographic and temporal scale (Yaukey ). In Sweden, the range expansion of the tick Ixodes ricinus was detected through a series of public questionnaires (Jaenson et al ).…”

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Utilizing citizen science to document a mange epidemic in western gray squirrels in California

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Citizen science allows for economical collection of data across large geographic areas. However the degree of expertise required, inter-observer consistency, and strategies for compiling and disseminating results may affect the quality of the project data. We used citizen science to recreate spatio-temporal characteristics of an outbreak of notoedric mange (Notoedres centrifera) in western gray squirrels (Sciurus griseus anthonyi) in the San Bernardino Mountains of California, USA, and evaluated strengths and limitations of citizen science to collect these data. In June 2012, we deployed an online survey asking local residents to record location, date, and details of past squirrel sightings (prior to the epidemic), and recent sightings of sick and healthy squirrels. Respondents provided 160 historical observations, 83.8% of which had sufficient information for inclusion. Although there was an eventual decay in reporting, these data allowed us to detect spatial clusters of mange, a west to east spread, and the presence of some unaffected squirrels after the epidemic. Respondents reported mange cases earlier than rehabilitators and at least a year ahead of a noticeable decline, while 76.3% observed the decline after 2010. Residents who lived in the study area for more than half the year were 2.3 times more likely to observe a gray squirrel with mange. After the start of the survey, there were 6 reports of gray squirrels with signs suggestive of mange but 188 reports of healthy gray squirrels, indicating the peak of infection in this mange epidemic was over by 2012. Ó 2016 The Wildlife Society.

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“…These types of data are extraordinarily abundant and growing rapidly (Yaukey 2010;Sullivan et al 2017). I show that, by applying robust statistical methods to presence data, it is possible to retrieve information on spatio-temporal variation of species ranges, which can provide insights about species' migration status.…”

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“…Data on birds have been accumulating rapidly in the last few decades compared to other taxa (Amano et al 2016), especially presence-only data, which has been increasingly used in scientific research and conservation decisions (Yaukey 2010;Fink et al 2014;Sullivan et al 2017).…”

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Assessing bird migrations

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Birds perform many types of migratory movements that vary remarkably both geographically and between taxa. Nevertheless, nomenclature and definitions of avian migrations are often not used consistently in the published literature, and the amount of information available varies widely between taxa. Although comprehensive global lists of migrants exist, these data oversimplify the breadth of types of avian movements, as Publications included in this thesis No publications included.

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Citizen Science and Bird–Distribution Data: AN Opportunity for Geographical Research*

Cited by 9 publications

References 28 publications

Substitutable habitats? The biophysical and anthropogenic drivers of an exotic bird’s distribution

Substitutable habitats? The biophysical and anthropogenic drivers of an exotic bird’s distribution

Utilizing citizen science to document a mange epidemic in western gray squirrels in California

Assessing bird migrations

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