Power of the People?

Teleki, Kristian

doi:10.1002/aqc.2219

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“…Such benefits include low cost and a potentially large unpaid workforce, allowing for monitoring over large geographic areas or temporal periods (Mumby et al 1995, Teleki 2012. Additionally, citizen science programmes can be used as education and outreach tools to promote conservation objectives and even to engage potential funders or fund specialist research projects (Gouveia et al 2004).…”

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Effectiveness of recreational divers for monitoring sea turtle populations

Williams¹,

Pierce²,

Fuentes³

et al. 2015

Endang. Species. Res.

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Five sea turtle species, all globally threatened, are found in southern Mozambican waters. Illegal hunting of foraging turtles, nest raiding and modification of coastal habitat are assumed to affect local sea turtle populations, but a lack of capacity and resource constraints hamper monitoring and compliance activities. Enlisting the recreational SCUBA diving community to report sea turtle sightings is a potential solution for population monitoring. The effectiveness of recreational divers as monitors was tested through the review of 2 approaches: the use of a routine dive logbook with sightings, and data from a dedicated survey. These approaches provided 37 consecutive months of data between 2008 and 2011 from dive sites in Inhambane Province, Mozambique. A total of 317 sightings of loggerhead Caretta caretta, green Chelonia mydas, hawksbill Eretmochelys imbricata and unidentified turtle species were reported from 918 dives. While the dedicated survey collected more detailed behavioural data (e.g. response to divers and feeding behaviour), independent logbook records provided a more robust data set for analysis of sighting trends. Useful data on sea turtle species composition, size and distribution were obtained from both approaches, although there were concerns with regard to species identification and size estimates. With refined methodology, particularly the incorporation of photographic verification of species identification, reports from divers can provide cost-effective and useful data for monitoring foraging turtle populations.

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Effectiveness of recreational divers for monitoring sea turtle populations

Williams¹,

Pierce²,

Fuentes³

et al. 2015

Endang. Species. Res.

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“…[67,[84][85][86]), but that the level of agreement varies with training, guidance, and experience (e.g. [64,84,[87][88][89]). Interestingly, in many of the comparisons between volunteers and scientists, no account was taken of variation among scientists (e.g.…”

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“…Interestingly, in many of the comparisons between volunteers and scientists, no account was taken of variation among scientists (e.g. [84]). From the perspective of a policy maker, it is vital that any data used to underpin the evidence-base are robust as they may be subject to legal challenge.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…An estimated 29.8% or 14 million UK adults engage in marine recreational activities [46], representing a huge potential resource for marine citizen science. Hence, there is an opportunity for marine scientists to make further use of citizen science [47] and a need to understand how best to use citizen science to deliver policy-relevant marine evidence [15].…”

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Can citizen science contribute to the evidence-base that underpins marine policy?

et al. 2015

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“…The development of reliable and cost-effective spatial models has been aided by identification of useful surrogates or proxies for complex spatial patterns that are difficult to map directly, such as species distributions, ecological function, and ecosystem service values [51,76,87]. Significant progress has also been made in data sharing through institutional contributions to open access data portals and the broadening of public participation in data collection (i.e., citizen science and crowd sourcing) [11,86,30].…”

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confidence: 99%