Identifying, reducing, and communicating uncertainty in community science: a focus on alien species
Аутори
Probert, AnnaWegmann, Daniel
Volery, Lara
Adriaens, Tim
Bakiu, Rigers
Bertolino, Sandro
Essl, Franz
Gervasini, Eugenio
Groom, Quentin
Latombe, Guillaume
Marisavljević, Dragana
Mumford, John
Pergl, Jan
Preda, Cristina
Roy, Helen
Scalera, Riccardo
Teixeira, Heliana
Tricarico, Elena
Vanderhoeven, Sonia
Bacher, Sven
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Community science (also often referred to as citizen science) provides a unique opportunity to address questions beyond the scope of other research methods whilst simultaneously engaging communities in the scientific process. This leads to broad educational benefits, empowers people, and can increase public awareness of societally relevant issues such as the biodiversity crisis. As such, community science has become a favourable framework for researching alien species where data on the presence, absence, abundance, phenology, and impact of species is important in informing management decisions. However, uncertainties arising at different stages can limit the interpretation of data and lead to projects failing to achieve their intended outcomes. Focusing on alien species centered community science projects, we identified key research questions and the relevant uncertainties that arise during the process of developing the study design, for example, when collecting the data and during the... statistical analyses. Additionally, we assessed uncertainties from a linguistic perspective, and how the communication stages among project coordinators, participants and other stakeholders can alter the way in which information may be interpreted. We discuss existing methods for reducing uncertainty and suggest further solutions to improve data reliability. Further, we make suggestions to reduce the uncertainties that emerge at each project step and provide guidance and recommendations that can be readily applied in practice. Reducing uncertainties is essential and necessary to strengthen the scientific and community outcomes of community science, which is of particular importance to ensure the success of projects aimed at detecting novel alien species and monitoring their dynamics across space and time.
Кључне речи:
Biodiversity monitoring / Citizen science / Data quality / Epistemic uncertainty / Linguistic uncertainty / Non-native speciesИзвор:
Biological Invasions, 2022, 24, 3395-3421Издавач:
- Springer
Финансирање / пројекти:
- COST Action CA17122
- Swiss National Science Foundation grant 31003A_179491
- Swiss National Science Foundation grant 31BD30_184114
- Belmont Forum—BiodivERsA International joint call project Invasi- BES (PCI2018-092939)
- Technology Agency of the Czech Republic project “Divland” (SS02030018)
- project RVO 67985939 (Czech Academy of Sciences)
- Belgian Science Policy Office’s Brain program (BelSPO BR/165/A1/TrIAS)
- FCT/ MCTES for financial support to CESAM (UID B/50017/2020+UIDP/50017/2020)
- Belmont Forum and BiodivERsA joint call for research proposals, under the BiodivScen ERANet COFUND programme
- FWF (“AlienScenarios”, project no I 4011-B32)
- the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-022-02858-8
ISSN: 1573-1464; 1387-3547
WoS: 00084726860000
Scopus: 2-s2.0-85137219367
Институција/група
IZBISTY - JOUR AU - Probert, Anna AU - Wegmann, Daniel AU - Volery, Lara AU - Adriaens, Tim AU - Bakiu, Rigers AU - Bertolino, Sandro AU - Essl, Franz AU - Gervasini, Eugenio AU - Groom, Quentin AU - Latombe, Guillaume AU - Marisavljević, Dragana AU - Mumford, John AU - Pergl, Jan AU - Preda, Cristina AU - Roy, Helen AU - Scalera, Riccardo AU - Teixeira, Heliana AU - Tricarico, Elena AU - Vanderhoeven, Sonia AU - Bacher, Sven PY - 2022 UR - https://plantarum.izbis.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/727 AB - Community science (also often referred to as citizen science) provides a unique opportunity to address questions beyond the scope of other research methods whilst simultaneously engaging communities in the scientific process. This leads to broad educational benefits, empowers people, and can increase public awareness of societally relevant issues such as the biodiversity crisis. As such, community science has become a favourable framework for researching alien species where data on the presence, absence, abundance, phenology, and impact of species is important in informing management decisions. However, uncertainties arising at different stages can limit the interpretation of data and lead to projects failing to achieve their intended outcomes. Focusing on alien species centered community science projects, we identified key research questions and the relevant uncertainties that arise during the process of developing the study design, for example, when collecting the data and during the statistical analyses. Additionally, we assessed uncertainties from a linguistic perspective, and how the communication stages among project coordinators, participants and other stakeholders can alter the way in which information may be interpreted. We discuss existing methods for reducing uncertainty and suggest further solutions to improve data reliability. Further, we make suggestions to reduce the uncertainties that emerge at each project step and provide guidance and recommendations that can be readily applied in practice. Reducing uncertainties is essential and necessary to strengthen the scientific and community outcomes of community science, which is of particular importance to ensure the success of projects aimed at detecting novel alien species and monitoring their dynamics across space and time. PB - Springer T2 - Biological Invasions T1 - Identifying, reducing, and communicating uncertainty in community science: a focus on alien species EP - 3421 SP - 3395 VL - 24 DO - 10.1007/s10530-022-02858-8 ER -
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Probert, A., Wegmann, D., Volery, L., Adriaens, T., Bakiu, R., Bertolino, S., Essl, F., Gervasini, E., Groom, Q., Latombe, G., Marisavljević, D., Mumford, J., Pergl, J., Preda, C., Roy, H., Scalera, R., Teixeira, H., Tricarico, E., Vanderhoeven, S.,& Bacher, S.. (2022). Identifying, reducing, and communicating uncertainty in community science: a focus on alien species. in Biological Invasions Springer., 24, 3395-3421. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-022-02858-8
Probert A, Wegmann D, Volery L, Adriaens T, Bakiu R, Bertolino S, Essl F, Gervasini E, Groom Q, Latombe G, Marisavljević D, Mumford J, Pergl J, Preda C, Roy H, Scalera R, Teixeira H, Tricarico E, Vanderhoeven S, Bacher S. Identifying, reducing, and communicating uncertainty in community science: a focus on alien species. in Biological Invasions. 2022;24:3395-3421. doi:10.1007/s10530-022-02858-8 .
Probert, Anna, Wegmann, Daniel, Volery, Lara, Adriaens, Tim, Bakiu, Rigers, Bertolino, Sandro, Essl, Franz, Gervasini, Eugenio, Groom, Quentin, Latombe, Guillaume, Marisavljević, Dragana, Mumford, John, Pergl, Jan, Preda, Cristina, Roy, Helen, Scalera, Riccardo, Teixeira, Heliana, Tricarico, Elena, Vanderhoeven, Sonia, Bacher, Sven, "Identifying, reducing, and communicating uncertainty in community science: a focus on alien species" in Biological Invasions, 24 (2022):3395-3421, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-022-02858-8 . .