ArticleBiological conservation2021
Differential reporting of biodiversity in two citizen science platforms during COVID-19 lockdown in Colombia.
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- Global impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on biodiversity data collection.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Citizen Science and Multimedia Didactic Resources: Knowledge of Mosquito-Borne Diseases in an Urban Area of Southwestern Colombia.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2024Article
- Influence of an extreme event-the COVID-19 pandemic-On establishment of and data collection by a citizen science project.PloS one · 2024Article
- Demographic and spatial variables associated with spending time in nature during COVID-19 lockdowns.Urban forestry & urban greening · 2023Article
- Community engagement and data quality: best practices and lessons learned from a citizen science project on birdsong.Journal of ornithology · 2023Article
- COVID-19 lockdown measures impacted citizen science hedgehog observation numbers in Bavaria, Germany.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Biodiversity and infrastructure interact to drive tourism to and within Costa Rica.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- The conservation and ecological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.Biological conservation · 2021Article
- Raptor research during the COVID-19 pandemic provides invaluable opportunities for conservation biology.Biological conservation · 2021Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the potential of using data from long-term citizen science projects to answer questions about the impacts of unexpected events on biodiversity. We evaluate the suitability of data from the citizen science platforms iNaturalist and eBird to describe the effects of the "anthropause" on biodiversity observation in Colombia. We compared record distribution according to human footprint, sampling behaviors, overall and conservation priority species composition during the strictest phase of the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 to the same periods in 2015-2019. Overall participation in both platforms during the lockdown was high when compared to previous years, but records were concentrated on highly-transformed regions, had lower sampling efforts, and fewer species were recorded. For eBird, species composition was similar to that observed in previous years, and records of species of conservation concern declined in proportion to the decrease in overall species richness across samples. For iNaturalist, the species pool sampled each year remained too dissimilar for comparisons. Once differences in observer behaviors are accounted for, data from these platforms can be used in unplanned comparisons of relatively common species, in regions with high levels of human transformation, and at narrowly defined geographical contexts. To increase the potential of citizen science to monitor rarer species, more natural areas, or be used in large-scale analyses, we need to build and strengthen more diverse networks of observers that can further promote decentralization, democratization, and cost-effectiveness in biodiversity research.
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