Citizen science and biological invasions: a review

J Encarnação, MA Teodósio, P Morais - Frontiers in Environmental …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Biological invasions are among the most challenging ecological and conservation riddles of
our times. Fortunately, citizen science projects became a valuable tool to detect non …

Management priorities for marine invasive species

S Giakoumi, S Katsanevakis, PG Albano… - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Managing invasive alien species is particularly challenging in the ocean mainly because
marine ecosystems are highly connected across broad spatial scales. Eradication of marine …

Citizen-science for monitoring marine invasions and stimulating public engagement: a case project from the eastern Mediterranean

I Giovos, P Kleitou, D Poursanidis, I Batjakas… - Biological …, 2019 - Springer
The distribution of marine life has been alarmingly reshaped lately and the number of non-
indigenous species and their impacts are rapidly escalating globally. Timely and accurate …

Citizen scientists and marine research: volunteer participants, their contributions, and projection for the future

RN Hughes, DJ Hughes, IP Smith - Oceanography and marine …, 2014 - books.google.com
MARTIN THIEL ET AL. of simple methodologies to the capabilities of participants. Studies for
which volunteers needed to identify many different species and estimate their abundances …

Snapshot of rare, exotic and overlooked fish species in the Italian seas: A citizen science survey

F Tiralongo, F Crocetta, E Riginella, AO Lillo… - Journal of Sea …, 2020 - Elsevier
Italy, at the center of the Mediterranean Sea, hosts a high diversity of fishes, but to a certain
extent, this richness remains hidden or poorly known because of rare, cryptic or recently …

Citizen science: An information quality research frontier

R Lukyanenko, A Wiggins, HK Rosser - Information Systems Frontiers, 2020 - Springer
The rapid proliferation of online content producing and sharing technologies resulted in an
explosion of user-generated content (UGC), which now extends to scientific data. Citizen …

Marine bioinvasions in the Anthropocene: Challenges and opportunities

M Ros, GV Ashton, MP Cabezas, E Cacabelos… - Coastal habitat …, 2023 - Elsevier
The global spread of nonindigenous species is recognized as a potent driver of change in
the sea with no sign of saturation. Interest in this topic has exponentially increased among …

Understanding drivers, barriers and information sources for public participation in marine citizen science

VY Martin, L Christidis, DJ Lloyd… - Journal of Science …, 2016 - eprints.qut.edu.au
Interviews were conducted with 110 marine users to elicit their salient beliefs about
recording marine species in a citizen science project. The results showed that many …

A fine-tuned global distribution dataset of marine forests

J Assis, E Fragkopoulou, D Frade, J Neiva, A Oliveira… - Scientific Data, 2020 - nature.com
Species distribution records are a prerequisite to follow climate-induced range shifts across
space and time. However, synthesizing information from various sources such as peer …

Biological invasions and invasive species in freshwaters: perception of the general public

B Lipták, A Kouba, J Patoka, M Paunović… - Human Dimensions of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
For management strategies aimed at biological invasions, a detailed survey of the general
public's knowledge is crucial. For this purpose, our present study aimed to (i) investigate the …