Emerging technologies in citizen science and potential for insect monitoring

JK Sheard, T Adriaens, DE Bowler… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Emerging technologies are increasingly employed in environmental citizen science projects.
This integration offers benefits and opportunities for scientists and participants alike. Citizen …

Towards a toolkit for global insect biodiversity monitoring

R Van Klink, JK Sheard, TT Høye… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Insects are the most diverse group of animals on Earth, yet our knowledge of their diversity,
ecology and population trends remains abysmally poor. Four major technological …

Delivering on a promise: futureproofing automated insect monitoring methods

R van Klink - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Due to rapid technological innovations, the automated monitoring of insect assemblages
comes within reach. However, this continuous innovation endangers the methodological …

Ethical issues in lethal insect monitoring

M Barrett, B Fischer - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Animal monitoring involves acquiring information about animals or their activities. Changes
in available monitoring technologies, global biodiversity, and sociocultural norms have …

[HTML][HTML] Parameterization before Meta-Analysis: Cross-Modal Embedding Clustering for Forest Ecology Question-Answering

R Tao, M Zhu, H Cao, HE Ren - Forests, 2024 - mdpi.com
In the field of forestry ecology, image data capture factual information, while literature is rich
with expert knowledge. The corpus within the literature can provide expert-level annotations …

Towards edge processing of images from insect camera traps

K Bjerge, H Karstoft, TT Hoye - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Insects represent nearly half of all known organisms, with nocturnal insects being
particularly challenging to monitor. Computer vision tools for automated monitoring have the …

[PDF][PDF] Insect Identification in the Wild: The AMI Dataset

MG Center, M Insectarium - ecva.net
Insects represent half of all global biodiversity, yet many of the world's insects are
disappearing, with severe implications for ecosystems and agriculture. Despite this crisis …