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 …

Citizen science is fundamentally shifting the future of biodiversity research. But although
citizen science observations are contributing an increasingly large proportion of biodiversity …

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

To meet collective obligations towards biodiversity conservation and monitoring, it is
essential that the world's governments and non-governmental organisations as well as the …

Global biodiversity monitoring is urgently needed across the world to assess the impacts of
environmental change on biodiversity. One way to increase monitoring is through citizen …

Citizen scientists play an increasingly important role in biodiversity monitoring. Most of the
data, however, are unstructured—collected by diverse methods that are not documented …

Citizen science data are valuable for addressing a wide range of ecological research
questions, and there has been a rapid increase in the scope and volume of data available …

The involvement of non-professionals in scientific research and environmental monitoring,
termed Citizen Science (CS), has now become a mainstream approach for collecting data …

Citizen science is mainstream: millions of people contribute data to a growing array of citizen
science projects annually, forming massive datasets that will drive research for years to …

Networks of citizen scientists (CS) have the potential to observe biodiversity and species
distributions at global scales. Yet the adoption of such datasets in conservation science may …