Quantifying the contribution of citizen science to broad-scale ecological databases
Quantifying the contribution of citizen science to broad-scale ecological databases
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DOI：
10.1002/fee.2128
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发表时间：
2019-11-04
影响因子：
10.3
通讯作者：
Soranno, Patricia A.
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作者：
Poisson, Autumn C.;McCullough, Ian M.;Soranno, Patricia A.
生态研究越来越依赖于大规模的数据库，其中包含来自各种来源的人员收集的信息，包括政府机构，大学和公民科学计划。然而，公民科学计划对这些数据库的贡献并不为人所知。我们分析了一个这样的数据库，以量化公民科学对美国七个州湖泊水质数据的贡献。公民科学计划不仅提供了过去31年中一半以上的常见采样水质指标（水质透明度，营养物质和藻类生物量）的观测结果，而且还为湖泊中选定指标的大部分长期监测（>15年）做出了贡献。虽然以前的研究已经证明了公民科学在研究，管理，政策和公众参与方面的有用性，但我们的研究表明，公民科学也可以为大规模生态数据库的建立做出宝贵的贡献。加强公民科学计划和监测机构之间的伙伴关系，有助于在生态学的“大数据”时代保持和扩大空间和时间数据的覆盖范围。
Ecological research increasingly relies on broad-scale databases containing information collected by personnel from a variety of sources, including government agencies, universities, and citizen-science programs. However, the contribution of citizen-science programs to these databases is not well known. We analyzed one such database to quantify the contribution of citizen science to lake water-quality data from seven US states. Citizen-science programs not only provided over half of the observations for commonly sampled water-quality measures (water clarity, nutrients, and algal biomass) from the past 31 years, but also contributed to the majority of long-term monitoring (>15 years) for selected measures in lakes. While previous studies have demonstrated the usefulness of citizen science for research, management, policy, and public engagement, our study demonstrates that citizen science can also make valuable contributions to populating broad-scale ecological databases. Strengthening partnerships between citizen-science programs and monitoring agencies can help maintain and expand spatial and temporal data coverage during the "big data" era of ecology.