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Understanding plant invasions: An example of working with citizen scientists to collect environmental data
- Source :
- AIMS Environmental Science, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 38-44 (2014)
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- AIMS Press, 2014.
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Abstract
- Citizen science programs are useful tools for collecting important environmental science data. To ensure data quality, however, it must be shown that data collected by volunteers can produce reliable results. We engaged 143 volunteers over four years to map and estimate abundance of invasive plants in New York and New Jersey parklands. We found that off trail abundance of only a few of our targeted invasive species were positively correlated with on trail abundance. Our results support that citizen science programs can be a useful and sometimes a much needed addition to environmental science protocols.
- Subjects :
- lcsh:GE1-350
business.industry
Environmental resource management
Invasive species
Environmental data
Abundance (ecology)
Data quality
Environmental monitoring
citizen science
Citizen science
Environmental science
invasive plants
business
lcsh:Environmental sciences
General Environmental Science
environmental monitoring
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23720352 and 23720344
- Volume :
- 1
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- AIMS Environmental Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e0e5db98b946281b5b8d366ffde75de1