2010
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014381
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Eu-Social Science: The Role of Internet Social Networks in the Collection of Bee Biodiversity Data

Abstract: BackgroundMonitoring change in species diversity, community composition and phenology is vital to assess the impacts of anthropogenic activity and natural change. However, monitoring by trained scientists is time consuming and expensive.Methodology/Principal FindingsUsing social networks, we assess whether it is possible to obtain accurate data on bee distribution across the UK from photographic records submitted by untrained members of the public, and if these data are in sufficient quantity for ecological st… Show more

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“…It should also be noted that previous work has suggested that analysis of standard canopy photographs correlates strongly with technology-heavy and expensive lidar scanning [28]. If the camera used an integrated global positioning system (GPS) functionality, or a GPS attachment is used, it would also be possible to create interactive maps of the canopy images tagged with the statistics produced by CanopyDigi (in a similar way to Stafford et al [48]). …”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It should also be noted that previous work has suggested that analysis of standard canopy photographs correlates strongly with technology-heavy and expensive lidar scanning [28]. If the camera used an integrated global positioning system (GPS) functionality, or a GPS attachment is used, it would also be possible to create interactive maps of the canopy images tagged with the statistics produced by CanopyDigi (in a similar way to Stafford et al [48]). …”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Figure 2 shows [64]), this suggests that if this method of data collection was further explored the number of potentially useful monarch butterfly sightings data could be greatly increased. Currently, a general internet user's image and location uploads are predominantly limited to "events" that the user wants to share this might be "checking in" to restaurants, attractions, clubs, cinemas, or concerts, often reviewing products, or sharing visual experiences [65,66].…”
Section: Social Network and Web 20mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…By exploiting social networks in this way, for ecological or biological research, many of the most common mistakes or inaccuracies that are found within volunteered data could be minimised. For example, by sharing images, and temporal and GPS data, misidentifications and location inaccuracies can be flagged and checked by trained individuals [5,37,64,67,68]. Despite this, there are very few examples of social networking sites being used actively to collect data for biological or ecological research; this may be because of confusion over copyright laws or limitations of API systems.…”
Section: Social Network and Web 20mentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Garden owners can be recruited to participate in simple surveys to collect data on the species that frequent their gardens, as well as the habitat features that their garden supports (e.g. Gaston et al 2005;Newson et al 2005; Toms and Newson 2006;Davies et al 2009;Stafford et al 2010). These large-scale "citizen science" surveys using data collected by members of the public can provide meaningful ecological data on distribution and species-habitat associations, and, if conducted on a regular basis, also allow species to be monitored over time (Silvertown 2009).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%