Artificial light at night (ALAN) is closely associated with modern societies and is rapidly
increasing worldwide. A dynamically growing body of literature shows that ALAN poses a …

Citizen science initiatives and the data they produce are increasingly common in ecology,
conservation and biodiversity monitoring. Although the quality of citizen science data has …

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 initiatives have been increasingly used by researchers as a source of
occurrence data to model the distribution of alien species. Since citizen science presence …

Ongoing loss of biological diversity is primarily the result of unsustainable human behavior.
Thus, the long‐term success of biodiversity conservation depends on a thorough …

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

Citizen science platforms are quickly accumulating hundreds of millions of biodiversity
observations around the world annually. Quantifying and correcting for the biases in citizen …

Ecological citizen science data are rapidly growing in availability and use in ecology and
conservation. Many citizen science projects have the flexibility for participants to select …

More than 15% of all vascular plant species may remain scientifically undescribed, and
many of the> 350 000 described species have no or few geographic records documenting …

The power of citizen science to contribute to both science and society is gaining increased
recognition, particularly in physics and biology. Although there is a long history of public …