TY - JOUR
T1 - Community scientists produce open data for understanding insects and climate change
AU - Prudic, K. L.
AU - Zylstra, E. R.
AU - Melkonoff, N. A.
AU - Laura, R. E.
AU - Hutchinson, R. A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2023/10
Y1 - 2023/10
N2 - Insect species are responding to human-caused global changes, sparking an urgent need for more conservation and management. Recent publications indicate the speed and scale of these changes to be both fast and large, impacting ecosystem function and human health. Community scientists are contributing vast amounts of data on insect occurrence and abundance to publicly available biodiversity platforms. These data are then used by ecologists to estimate insect diversity and distributions and forecast species’ responses to the stressors of the Anthropocene. Yet, challenges remain with taxonomy, species identification, and sampling, some of which can be improved by new tools and approaches. Here we review the open, global community science programs providing the majority of publicly available insect data. We explore the advantages, challenges, and next steps with these large-scale community science ventures, emphasizing the importance of collaboration between professionals and community scientists to jointly address the conservation of insects.
AB - Insect species are responding to human-caused global changes, sparking an urgent need for more conservation and management. Recent publications indicate the speed and scale of these changes to be both fast and large, impacting ecosystem function and human health. Community scientists are contributing vast amounts of data on insect occurrence and abundance to publicly available biodiversity platforms. These data are then used by ecologists to estimate insect diversity and distributions and forecast species’ responses to the stressors of the Anthropocene. Yet, challenges remain with taxonomy, species identification, and sampling, some of which can be improved by new tools and approaches. Here we review the open, global community science programs providing the majority of publicly available insect data. We explore the advantages, challenges, and next steps with these large-scale community science ventures, emphasizing the importance of collaboration between professionals and community scientists to jointly address the conservation of insects.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cois.2023.101081
DO - 10.1016/j.cois.2023.101081
M3 - Review article
C2 - 37393063
SN - 2214-5745
VL - 59
JO - Current Opinion in Insect Science
JF - Current Opinion in Insect Science
M1 - 101081
ER -