eButterfly: Leveraging Massive Online Citizen Science for Butterfly Consevation

Insects
Kathleen L PrudicMaxim Larrivée

Abstract

Data collection, storage, analysis, visualization, and dissemination are changing rapidly due to advances in new technologies driven by computer science and universal access to the internet. These technologies and web connections place human observers front and center in citizen science-driven research and are critical in generating new discoveries and innovation in such fields as astronomy, biodiversity, and meteorology. Research projects utilizing a citizen science approach address scientific problems at regional, continental, and even global scales otherwise impossible for a single lab or even a small collection of academic researchers. Here we describe eButterfly an integrative checklist-based butterfly monitoring and database web-platform that leverages the skills and knowledge of recreational butterfly enthusiasts to create a globally accessible unified database of butterfly observations across North America. Citizen scientists, conservationists, policy makers, and scientists are using eButterfly data to better understand the biological patterns of butterfly species diversity and how environmental conditions shape these patterns in space and time. eButterfly in collaboration with thousands of butterfly enthusiasts has cre...Continue Reading

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Jun 28, 2019·PLoS Biology·Corey T CallaghanRichard E Major
Sep 14, 2019·Insects·Kathleen L PrudicJeffrey C Oliver
Oct 1, 2020·Insects·Wen-Ling WangShao-Ji Hu
Jul 2, 2021·Integrative and Comparative Biology·Abbigail N MerrillErica L Westerman

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Software Mentioned

Mission Monarch
eBird
eButterfly Watch
iNaturalist
eButterfly

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