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Citizen science data from Conservation Biology paper #15

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gbif-portal commented 7 years ago

Citizen science data from Conservation Biology paper

Dataset link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/MiamiMultiMediaURL/1-s2.0-S0006320716303639/1-s2.0-S0006320716303639-mmc2.xls/271811/html/S0006320716303639/9de1ab308f1ed9e4968002511159dc42/mmc2.xls

Region: Worldwide

Taxon: All

Type: occurrence

Why is this important: The paper that Siro, Jan and I co-authored also included a spreadsheet/database listing hundreds of citizen science projects around the world. They vary widely in terms of scale and taxonomic and geographic scope, but we should keep in mind that this list provides an outstanding resource for prioritizing and mobilizing datasets to fill identified gaps. > A total of 64% of the CS programs in Europe make their data available to GBIF while only 9% of those in North America submit their data to GBIF (Table 2). The similar figures for CS programs in Asia and South/Central America are 55% and 100% (N = 10 and 3, respectively). Of the two programs in Africa, no data are made available to GBIF while 17% of the 42 programs in Oceania submit their data to GBIF. In contrast to CS as a whole, a relatively high proportion of CBM programs operate in Africa (34%) and Asia (24%), often in low-income countries (65% in countries with a Gross National Income per capita < 2570 USD at the time of the assessment; World Bank, 2012). South and Central America had the lowest coverage by either CS or CBM programs.

Priority: medium

License: Unspecified

Bibliographic reference: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.09.004

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ahahn-gbif commented 3 years ago

A meta-resource to evaluate for candidate datasets