Co-design of a citizen science study: Unlocking the potential of eDNA for volunteer freshwater monitoring
Co-design of a citizen science study: Unlocking the potential of eDNA for volunteer freshwater monitoring
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共同设计一项公民科学研究：释放 eDNA 在志愿者淡水监测方面的潜力
DOI：
10.1002/2688-8319.12273
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Clarke S
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作者：
Clarke S
公民科学正越来越多地被作为收集更多数据以帮助为生态系统管理提供信息的手段而得到推广。让参与者参与数据收集活动的设计是一种共同设计的形式，通常由呼吁翻译生态学的人提出。此外，新的监测方法有可能提高公民科学家收集的数据的质量。我们通过共同设计的流域监测策略探索了环境DNA(EDNA)在脊椎动物(主要是鱼类)物种监测中的潜力。在了解了EDNA的潜力后，公民科学家设计并执行了一项基于EDNA的小白垩河流域调查，以探索令人担忧的问题。EDNA调查提供了关于流域内鱼类和其他脊椎动物多样性的数据，否则公民科学家很难采用采样方法。这些数据初步回答了公民科学家的一些优先问题，可与通过传统电捕调查收集的鱼类数据相媲美。这些数据为公民科学家共同设计和使用新的研究技术提供了建议。
Citizen science is increasingly being promoted as a means of gathering more data to help inform the management of ecosystems. Involving the participants in the design of data collection activities is a form of co‐design often proposed by those calling for a translational ecology.In addition, novel monitoring approaches have the potential to improve the quality of data collected by citizen scientists. We explored the potential of environmental DNA (eDNA) for vertebrate (mainly fish) species monitoring through a co‐designed catchment monitoring strategy.Having been introduced to the potential of eDNA, citizen scientists designed and executed an eDNA‐based survey of a small chalk stream catchment to explore questions of concern.The eDNA survey provided data about fish and other vertebrate diversity in the catchment which would have otherwise required sampling approaches difficult for citizen scientists. These data give a preliminary answer to some of the citizen scientists' priority questions and are comparable to fish data collected through traditional electrofishing surveys.Recommendations are offered for co‐design and the use of novel research techniques by citizen scientists.