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Extensive sampling and citizen science expand the distribution of the threatened freshwater turtle Ranacephala hogei (Mertens, 1967) [PDF]

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Ranacephala hogei is a South American freshwater turtle considered one of the 25 most endangered chelonian species in the world. Endemic to the Atlantic Forest hotspot of southeastern Brazil, the conservation status of R.
CLODOALDO L. ASSIS, RAFAEL M. VALADÃO, SÔNIA HELENA S.T. DE MENDONÇA, EVÓDIO LUIS S. PEÇANHA, HENRIQUE C. COSTA, CAMILA M. NOVAES, THIAGO F. DE BARROS, LAIO S. RODRIGUES, JOÃO LUIZ GASPARINI, RENATO N. FEIO   +9 more
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Community Science Online: Building Capacity for Native Bee Monitoring

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension, 2023
Native bees are crucial for sustainable productivity in natural, agricultural, and urban ecosystems, but they are losing natural habitat spaces. Extension can facilitate community science programs to collect ecological data on native bee populations and ...
Lauren Vilen , Lisa Mason , Sarah Viders , Jill Zarestky   +3 more
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How should novelty be valued in science? [PDF]

, 2017
Scientists are under increasing pressure to do "novel" research. Here I explore whether there are risks to overemphasizing novelty when deciding what constitutes good science.
Alberts, Baker, Berget, Collins, Cook, Doyle, Errington, Fortin, Friedman, Gallo, Godfrey-Smith, Hall, Henikoff, Higginson, Hull, Kitcher, Kuhn, Lakatos, Lander, Laudan, Lauer, Lee, McClintock, Merton, Nüsslein-Volhard, Popper, Smith, Stent, Strevens, Venter, Watson, Wightman   +31 more
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Team science for science communication [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014
Natural scientists from Climate Central and social scientists from Carnegie Mellon University collaborated to develop science communications aimed at presenting personalized coastal flood risk information to the public. We encountered four main challenges: agreeing on goals; balancing complexity and simplicity; relying on data, not intuition; and ...
Gabrielle, Wong-Parodi, Benjamin H, Strauss   +1 more
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Asynchronous flowering patterns in saguaro cacti (Carnegiea gigantea)

Ecosphere, 2021
The saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea [Engelm.] Britton & Rose) is a keystone species endemic to the Sonoran Desert of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.
Theresa Foley, Don E. Swann, Guadalupe Sotelo, Nicholas Perkins, Daniel E. Winkler   +4 more
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Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life. [PDF]

, 2020
Synthesizing trait observations and knowledge across the Tree of Life remains a grand challenge for biodiversity science. Species traits are widely used in ecological and evolutionary science, and new data and methods have proliferated rapidly.
Adams, Vanessa M, Alroy, John, Andrew, Samuel C, Ankenbrand, Markus J, Balk, Meghan A, Bland, Lucie M, Boyle, Brad L, Bravo-Avila, Catherine H, Brennan, Ian, Carthey, Alexandra JR, Catullo, Renee, Cavazos, Brittany R, Chown, Steven L, Conde, Dalia A, Enquist, Brian J, Fadrique, Belen, Falster, Daniel S, Feng, Xiao, Gallagher, Rachael V, Gibb, Heloise, Halbritter, Aud H, Hammock, Jennifer, Hogan, J Aaron, Holewa, Hamish, Hope, Michael, Iversen, Colleen M, Jochum, Malte, Kattge, Jens, Kearney, Michael, Keller, Alexander, Mabee, Paula, Madin, Joshua S, Maitner, Brian S, Manning, Peter, McCormack, Luke, Michaletz, Sean T, Park, Daniel S, Pearse, William D, Penone, Caterina, Perez, Timothy M, Pineda-Munoz, Silvia, Poelen, Jorrit H, Ray, Courtenay A, Rossetto, Maurizio, Salguero-Gómez, Roberto, Sauquet, Hervé, Schneider, Florian D, Sparrow, Benjamin, Spasojevic, Marko J, Telford, Richard J, Tobias, Joseph A, Vandvik, Vigdis, Violle, Cyrille, Walls, Ramona, Weiss, Katherine CB, Westoby, Mark, Wright, Ian J   +56 more
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Influence of the COVID‐19 pandemic on amphibian road mortality

Conservation Science and Practice, 2021
The COVID‐19 pandemic and its related human activity shutdowns provide unique opportunities for biodiversity monitoring through what has been termed the “anthropause” or the “great human confinement experiment.” The pandemic caused immense disruption to ...
Gregory LeClair, Matthew W. H. Chatfield, Zachary Wood, Jeffrey Parmelee, Cheryl A. Frederick   +4 more
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Embracing inclusivity: the case against the term 'citizen science' [PDF]

Research Ideas and Outcomes
Participatory science and "amateur" participation in scientific data collection and work has been common for hundreds of years, but has become a more formalised field of practice in recent decades.
Christine Christian, Gilbert Gwilliam III, Matt von Konrat, June Ahn, Colleen Bailey, Daniel Dodinval, Elizabeth R. Ellwood, Kate Golembiewski, Lila Higgins, Camille Jones, Vanessa Martinez, Miguel Ordeñana, Gregory Pauly   +12 more
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A text-messaging chatbot to support outdoor recreation monitoring through community science

Digital Geography and Society, 2023
Public land managers depend on reliable and readily available data about outdoor recreation in parks and greenspaces. However, traditional recreation monitoring techniques including visitor surveying and counting cannot be implemented over large spatial ...
Emilia H. Lia, Monika M. Derrien, Samantha G. Winder, Eric M. White, Spencer A. Wood   +4 more
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Perspective: The Power (Dynamics) of Open Data in Citizen Science

Frontiers in Climate, 2021
In citizen science, data stewards and data producers are often not the same people. When those who have labored on data collection are not in control of the data, ethical problems could arise from this basic structural feature.
Caren B. Cooper, Lisa M. Rasmussen, Elizabeth D. Jones   +2 more
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