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BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
卷 115, 期 3, 页码 522-531出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12532
关键词
citizen science; GBIF; human behaviour; information content; recording behaviour
资金
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Natural Environment Research Council [NEC04932]
- Natural Environment Research Council [ceh020004] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [ceh020004] Funding Source: UKRI
Biological recording is in essence a very simple concept in which a record is the report of a species at a physical location at a certain time. The collation of these records into a dataset is a powerful approach to addressing large-scale questions about biodiversity change. Records are collected by volunteers at times and places that suit them, leading to a variety of biases: uneven sampling over space and time, uneven sampling effort per visit and uneven detectability. These need to be controlled for in statistical analyses that use biological records. In particular, the data are presence-only', and lack information on the sampling protocol or intensity. Submitting complete lists' of all the species seen is one potential solution because the data can be treated as presence-absence' and detectability of each species can be statistically modelled. The corollary of bias is that records vary in their information content'. The information content is a measure of how much an individual record, or collection of records, contributes to reducing uncertainty in a parameter of interest. The information content of biological records varies, depending on the question to which the data are being applied. We consider a set of hypothetical syndromes' of recording behaviour, each of which is characterized by different information content. We demonstrate how these concepts can be used to support the growth of a particular type of recording behaviour. Approaches to recording are rapidly changing, especially with the growth of mass participation citizen science. We discuss how these developments present a range of challenges and opportunities for biological recording in the future.(c) 2015 The Linnean Society of London.
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