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Citizen science: An alternative way for water monitoring in Hong Kong
Nowadays, citizen science has become increasingly popular, especially in Western countries. In Hong Kong, citizen science projects are mostly used for public education, while... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Stakeholder perspectives on large-scale marine protected areas
Large-scale marine protected areas (LSMPAs), MPAs greater than 100,000km2, have proliferated in the past decade. However, the value of LSMPAs as conservation tools is debated,... -
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... -
Taxonomic Reference Libraries for Environmental Barcoding: A Best Practice Ex...
DNA barcoding uses a short fragment of a DNA sequence to identify a taxon. After obtaining the target sequence it is compared to reference sequences stored in a database to... -
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... -
Assessing alternative methods for unsupervised segmentation of urban vegetati...
To analyze types and patterns of greening trends across a city, this study seeks to identify a method of creating very high-resolution urban vegetation maps that scales over... -
Exploitation rates of two benthic resources across management regimes in cent...
There is an urgent need to quantify the impacts of artisanal fisheries and define management practices that allow for the recovery and conservation of exploited stocks. The... -
Citclops: A next-generation sensor system for the monitoring of natural water...
41 pages, 28 figures, 1 table, supporting information https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230084.s001.-- Through the interface at [http://www.citclops.eu/search/welcome.php]... -
Characters matter: How narratives shape affective responses to risk communica...
Introduction Whereas scientists depend on the language of probability to relay information about hazards, risk communication may be more effective when embedding scientific... -
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... -
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Given limited funds for research and widespread degradation of ecosystems, environmental scientists should geographically target their studies where they will be most effective.... -
PhotoId-Whale: Blue whale dorsal fin classification for mobile devices
Photo-identification (photo-id) is a method used in field studies by biologists to monitor animals according to their density, movement patterns and behavior, with the aim of... -
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... -
Biosecurity messages are lost in translation to citizens: Implications for de...
The increasing focus of marine biosecurity agencies on transferring management responsibilities to citizens and industry begs the question whether devolved responsibility is a...
