ArticleAmbio2022
Temporal trends in opportunistic citizen science reports across multiple taxa.
Article in Ambio, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Expanding phenological insights: automated phenostage annotation with community science plant images.International journal of biometeorology · 2025Article
- An approach to using stranding data to monitor cetacean population trends and guide conservation strategies.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- A bird species occurrence dataset from passive audio recordings across dense urban areas in Gothenburg, Sweden.Scientific data · 2025Article
- First national survey of terrestrial biodiversity using airborne eDNA.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Bridging Citizen Science and Expert Surveys in urban biodiversity monitoring: Insights from insect diversity in Macao.Biodiversity data journal · 2025Article
- Opportunistic plant observations reveal spatial and temporal gradients in phenology.npj biodiversity · 2024Article
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- Opportunities and challenges for monitoring a recolonizing large herbivore using citizen science.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Community Science Strategies Reveal Distributional Patterns of Treponeme-Associated Hoof Disease in Washington Elk (Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2023Article
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Abstract
Opportunistic reporting of species observations to online platforms provide one of the most extensive sources of information about the distribution and status of organisms in the wild. The lack of a clear sampling design, and changes in reporting over time, leads to challenges when analysing these data for temporal change in organisms. To better understand temporal changes in reporting, we use records submitted to an online platform in Sweden (Artportalen), currently containing 80 million records. Focussing on five taxonomic groups, fungi, plants, beetles, butterflies and birds, we decompose change in reporting into long-term and seasonal trends, and effects of weekdays, holidays and weather variables. The large surge in number of records since the launch of the, initially taxa-specific, portals is accompanied by non-trivial long-term and seasonal changes that differ between the taxonomic groups and are likely due to changes in, and differences between, the user communities and observer behaviour.
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