Tradeoffs of using place‐based community science for urban biodiversity monitoring

Jimenez, Miguel F.; Pejchar, Liba; Reed, Sarah E.

doi:10.1111/csp2.338

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“…Disseminating knowledge and information may also help reduce local elite capture of public investments, as better-informed communities will know what is expected to take place in their territories. Lastly, involving the community can strengthen grassroots environmental attitudes and social networks, disseminate ecological and scientific knowledge, and increase buy-in for conservation efforts (Jimenez et al, 2021).…”

Section: Adaptation Mitigation and The Need For Deepened Community En...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Community-based participatory climate action

Restrepo-Mieth,

Perry,

Garnick

et al. 2023

Glob. Sustain.

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Non-technical summary. Improving the flow of information between governments and local communities is paramount to achieving effective climate change mitigation and adaptation. We propose five pathways to deepen participation and improve community-based climate action. The pathways can be summarized as visualization, simulations to practice decisionmaking, participatory budgeting and planning, environmental civic service, and education and curriculum development. These pathways contribute to improving governance by consolidating in governments the practice of soliciting and incorporating community participation while simultaneously giving communities the tools and knowledge needed to become active contributors to climate change adaptation and mitigation measures. Technical summary. Community participation is considered a key component in the design of responses to climate change. Substantial engagement of local communities is required to ensure information flow between governments and communities, but also because local communities are the primary sites of adaptation action. However, frontline communities are often excluded from decision-making and implementation processes due to political choices or failures to identify ways to make participatory frameworks more inclusive. Climate action requires the active engagement of communities in making consequential decisions, or what we term deepened participation. We propose five pathways to deepen participation: visualization, simulations to practice decision-making, participatory budgeting and planning, environmental civic service, and education and curriculum development. The five pathways identify strategies that can be incorporated into existing organizational and institutional frameworks or used to create new ones. Shortcomings related to each strategy are identified. Reflection by communities and governments is encouraged as they choose which participatory technique (s) to adopt. Social media summary. Climate action requires the active engagement of communities. Learn five pathways to get started deepening participation.

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Section: Adaptation Mitigation and The Need For Deepened Community En...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Community-based participatory climate action

Restrepo-Mieth,

Perry,

Garnick

et al. 2023

Glob. Sustain.

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“…Moreover, when appreciating the charismatic wing patterns and elegant gliding behaviour of butterflies, the emotional bridge between humans and nature could be restored effectively [36][37][38][39]. However, such valuable butterfly assets on the university campus have long been neglected by teaching, training, management, and even biodiversity monitoring schemes [14,[40][41][42]. This neglect has already created a substantial knowledge gap in modern biodiversity conservation, hindering effective urban planning and management in this aspect [43].…”

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confidence: 99%

Butterfly Diversity in a Rapidly Developing Urban Area: A Case Study on a University Campus

Fang,

Li,

Pan

et al. 2023

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University campuses, as small and isolated areas of rapidly growing urban areas, can provide a unique opportunity for urban biodiversity research, conservation, education, and citizen science by monitoring assemblages of butterflies within their areas. We surveyed butterfly biodiversity in a rapidly developing urban area represented by the Chenggong Campus of Yunnan University in southwestern China using the Pollard walk method. In total, 3625 butterfly individuals belonging to 50 species, 35 genera, and six families were recorded in this survey. The results showed that the families Pieridae and Nymphalidae are the families with the highest species richness on the campus, and that the family Riodinidae contained the fewest species. Pieris rapae was the most common species, and seven species assessed by the IUCN Red List were recorded. Butterfly community structure varied across habitats and seasons on campus, and butterfly diversity was higher in spring and autumn than it was in summer and winter, as well as being higher in road habitats than in scenic habitats. Unavoidable urbanisation activities (construction, green space planning, etc.) may have influenced the composition and diversity of butterflies, and conserving urban butterfly diversity requires a balance between urban planning and habitat diversity. Finally, we encourage universities and research institutions to develop butterfly monitoring platforms for citizen scientists to participate in.

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“…Additionally, biodiversity surveys are often conducted away from areas with high human activity (e.g., trails, playgrounds, picnic areas) in more naturalized areas, reducing the chance that any overlapping human activity would be recorded. Using community science (e.g., iNaturalist, e-bird, Bumble Bee Watch) can be an effective tool for obtaining surveys with broad spatial and temporal coverage of green spaces [ 22 , 23 ], but these types of data are inherently correlated with smartphone use because of the mobile applications they require. A preliminary exploration of biodiversity and GPS data from smart devices would include examining the relative use of land cover types in green spaces to determine if certain areas, particularly where there is sensitive habitat, receive disproportionate levels of human activity.…”

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Using smartphone-GPS data to quantify human activity in green spaces

Filazzola

Xie

Barrett³

et al. 2022

PLoS Comput Biol

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Cities are growing in density and coverage globally, increasing the value of green spaces for human health and well-being. Understanding the interactions between people and green spaces is also critical for biological conservation and sustainable development. However, quantifying green space use is particularly challenging. We used an activity index of anonymized GPS data from smart devices provided by Mapbox (www.mapbox.com) to characterize human activity in green spaces in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada. The goals of our study were to describe i) a methodological example of how anonymized GPS data could be used for human-nature research and ii) associations between park features and human activity. We describe some of the challenges and solutions with using this activity index, especially in the context of green spaces and biodiversity monitoring. We found the activity index was strongly correlated with visitation records (i.e., park reservations) and that these data are useful to identify high or low-usage areas within green spaces. Parks with a more extensive trail network typically experienced higher visitation rates and a substantial proportion of activity remained on trails. We identified certain land covers that were more frequently associated with human presence, such as rock formations, and find a relationship between human activity and tree composition. Our study demonstrates that anonymized GPS data from smart devices are a powerful tool for spatially quantifying human activity in green spaces. These could help to minimize trade-offs in the management of green spaces for human use and biological conservation will continue to be a significant challenge over the coming decades because of accelerating urbanization coupled with population growth. Importantly, we include a series of recommendations when using activity indexes for managing green spaces that can assist with biomonitoring and supporting sustainable human use.

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Tradeoffs of using place‐based community science for urban biodiversity monitoring

Cited by 5 publications

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Community-based participatory climate action

Community-based participatory climate action

Butterfly Diversity in a Rapidly Developing Urban Area: A Case Study on a University Campus

Using smartphone-GPS data to quantify human activity in green spaces

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