The interest towards citizen science has grown in recent years because it has appropiated an indispensable niche for current scientific research: the scale of the data, especially in research in ecology, as they allow information to be collected in a geographical and temporal dimension that it would not be possible if it were performed only by professional scientists. In this regard, and according to a recent article published in Biological Conservation, approximately 219,000,000 of the 300,000,000 bird records - 73 percent - contained in large databases of information on biodiversity come from amateur platforms.
Source
Chandler, Mark, Linda See, Kyle Copas, Astrid M. Z. Bonde, Bernat Claramunt López, Finn Danielsen, Jan Kristoffer Legind, et al. 2017. “Contribution of Citizen Science towards International Biodiversity Monitoring.” Biological Conservation 213 (Part B): 280–94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.09.004.
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Chandler, Mark, Linda See, Kyle Copas, Astrid M. Z. Bonde, Bernat Claramunt López, Finn Danielsen, Jan Kristoffer Legind and et al, "Contribution of citizen science towards international biodiversity monitoring", contributed by Arturo Vallejo, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 9 August 2019, accessed 28 April 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/contribution-citizen-science-towards-international-biodiversity-monitoring
Critical Commentary
The interest towards citizen science has grown in recent years because it has appropiated an indispensable niche for current scientific research: the scale of the data, especially in research in ecology, as they allow information to be collected in a geographical and temporal dimension that it would not be possible if it were performed only by professional scientists. In this regard, and according to a recent article published in Biological Conservation, approximately 219,000,000 of the 300,000,000 bird records - 73 percent - contained in large databases of information on biodiversity come from amateur platforms.