Context dependence is widely invoked to explain disparate results in ecology. It arises when
the magnitude or sign of a relationship varies due to the conditions under which it is …

Citizen science, the involvement of volunteers in research, has increased the scale of
ecological field studies with continent-wide, centralized monitoring efforts and, more rarely …

There is increasing availability and use of unstructured and semi‐structured citizen science
data in biodiversity research and conservation. This expansion of a rich source of 'big …

Ecological and environmental citizen‐science projects have enormous potential to advance
scientific knowledge, influence policy, and guide resource management by producing …

Natural habitats are being impacted by human pressures at an alarming rate. Monitoring
these ecosystem-level changes often requires labor-intensive surveys that are unable to …

Biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate, and monitoring is crucial for
understanding the causal drivers and assessing solutions. Most biodiversity monitoring data …

Traditionally, animal species diversity and abundance is assessed using a variety of
methods that are generally costly, limited in space and time, and most importantly, they …

Estimates of species richness and diversity are central to community and macroecology and
are frequently used in conservation planning. Commonly used diversity metrics account for …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) surveys are increasingly being used for biodiversity monitoring,
principally because they are sensitive and can provide high resolution community …

Wildlife monitoring is essential for conservation science and data‐driven decision‐making.
Tropical forests pose a particularly challenging environment for monitoring wildlife due to the …