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Citizen Science and the Urban Ecology of Birds and Butterflies - A Systematic...
Citizen science has gained widespread currency as a tool for ecological research over the\ud past decade. However, in the discipline of urban ecology, the existing contributions... -
Spatial and topical imbalances in biodiversity research
The rapid erosion of biodiversity is among the biggest challenges human society is facing. Concurrently, major efforts are in place to quantify changes in biodiversity, to... -
The emergent integrated network structure of scientific research
Scientific research is often thought of as being conducted by individuals and small teams striving for disciplinary advances. Yet as a whole, this endeavor more closely... -
Building flux capacity: Citizen scientists increase resolution of soil greenh...
Though citizen science programs have been broadly successful in diverse scientific fields, their adoption has lagged in some disciplines, including soil science and ecosystem... -
Resilience and stability of kelp forests: The importance of patch dynamics an...
Habitat forming 'ecosystem engineers' such as kelp species create complex habitats that support biodiverse and productive communities. Studies of the resilience and stability of... -
A decade of decline: Grant funding for researchers with disabilities 2008 to ...
Recent data highlights an imbalance in research grant success among groups underrepresented within the biomedical workforce, including racial/ethnic minorities and women.... -
Hypoxia, blackwater and fish kills: experimental lethal oxygen thresholds in ...
Hypoxia represents a growing threat to biodiversity in freshwater ecosystems. Here, aquatic surface respiration (ASR) and oxygen thresholds required for survival in freshwater... -
Crowdsourcing: It Matters Who the Crowd Are. The Impacts of between Group Var...
Volunteered geographical information (VGI) and citizen science have become important sources data for much scientific research. In the domain of land cover, crowdsourcing can... -
Realistic fisheries management reforms could mitigate the impacts of climate ...
Although climate change is altering the productivity and distribution of marine fisheries,climate-adaptive fisheries management could mitigate many of the negative impacts on... -
A citizen science approach: A detailed ecological assessment of subtropical r...
Subtropical reefs provide an important habitat for flora and fauna, and proper monitoring is required for conservation. Monitoring these exposed and submerged reefs is... -
Great apes and biodiversity offset projects in Africa: the case for national ...
The development and private sectors are increasingly considering “biodiversity offsets” as a strategy to compensate for their negative impacts on biodiversity, including impacts... -
Stirring the strategic direction of scuba diving marine Citizen Science: A su...
ABSTRACT Citizen Science (CS) strengthens the relationship between society and science through education and engagement, with win-win benefits. Marine Citizen Science (MCS) is... -
Empirically derived guidance for social scientists to influence environmental...
Failure to stem trends of ecological disruption and associated loss of ecosystem services worldwide is partly due to the inadequate integration of the human dimension into... -
Aquatic macroinvertebrates stabilize gravel bed sediment: A test using silk n...
Organisms can have large effects on the physical properties of the habitats where they live. For example, measurements in laboratory stream microcosms have shown that the... -
Evidence and impact of map error on land use and land cover dynamics in Ashi ...
Previously, applications of intensity analysis (IA) on land use and land cover change (LULCC) studies have focused on deviations from uniform intensity (UI) and failed to... -
Who is researching biodiversity hotspots in Eastern Europe? A case study on t...
European farmlands are vital arenas for socio-ecological sustainability because of their significant land coverage and potential for integrating food production with... -
webpic: A flexible web application for collecting distance and count measurem...
: Despite increasing ability to store and analyze large amounts of data for organismal and ecological studies, the process of collecting distance and count measurements from... -
"Anyone Know What Species This Is?" – Twitter Conversations as Embryonic Citi...
Social media like blogs, micro-blogs or social networks are increasingly being investigated and employed to detect and predict trends for not only social and physical phenomena,... -
Gbm.auto: A software tool to simplify spatial modelling and Marine Protected ...
Peer reviewed article. Citation: Dedman, S., Officer, R., Clarke, M., Reid, D. G., & Brophy, D. (2017). Gbm.auto: A software tool to simplify spatial modelling and Marine... -
A hierarchical classification of benthic biodiversity and assessment of prote...
An international effort is underway to establish a representative system of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Southern Ocean to help provide for the long-term conservation of...
