The history of public participation in ecological research
The history of public participation in ecological research
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DOI：
10.1890/110278
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发表时间：
2012-08-01
影响因子：
10.3
通讯作者：
Bonney, Rick
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作者：
Miller-Rushing, Abraham;Primack, Richard;Bonney, Rick
几个世纪以来，公众一直在记录他们对自然界的观察，包括植物和动物的分布和物候、水质、天气数据和天文现象。鉴于生态学研究作为一个专业研究领域的相对较新的增长，业余爱好者对生态学的历史贡献很容易被忽视。为了更好地了解生态系统的长期变化，研究人员现在正在重新研究许多由非专业人士收集的历史数据集。在过去的100年里，科学组织越来越多地将志愿者纳入大型监测项目，以扩大观测的地理范围和样本量。我们相信，公众参与科学的悠久传统提供的视角和数据丰富了人们对公民科学的兴趣，这将扩大公众对生态研究的参与，并产生新的科学见解。
Members of the public have for centuries recorded their observations of the natural world, including plant and animal distribution and phenology, water quality, weather data, and astronomical phenomena. Given the relatively recent growth of ecological research as a professional field of study, the historical contributions of amateurs to ecology can be easily overlooked. To better understand long-term changes in ecosystems, researchers are now revisiting many of these historical datasets collected by non-professionals. Over the past 100 years, scientific organizations have increasingly included volunteers in large-scale monitoring projects to broaden the geographical extent and sample size of observations. We believe that a renewed interest in citizen science, enriched with the perspective and data provided by the long tradition of public participation in science, will broaden the engagement of the public in ecological research and lead to new scientific insights.