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Estimating disease vector population size from citizen science data.

Tam Tran¹, W Tanner Porter², Daniel J Salkeld³

¹Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.

Journal of the Royal Society, Interface

|November 24, 2021

Summary

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Citizen science tick data can expand research but may be biased. Statistical models accounting for participation factors improve accuracy, enabling better tick population estimates and disease vector mapping.

Keywords:

Lyme disease vector citizen science community science population trends

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Area of Science:

Ecology
Epidemiology
Public Health

Background:

Citizen science offers large datasets for scientific research, but data quality from untrained collectors can be inconsistent.
Untrained public data collection may introduce biases, potentially misrepresenting natural systems and affecting scientific conclusions.

Purpose of the Study:

To identify and correct biases in citizen science data for the Lyme disease tick vector.
To improve the accuracy of tick abundance estimates derived from public participation datasets.

Main Methods:

Comparison of citizen science tick collection data with scientific surveillance data.
Development of statistical models incorporating factors influencing collector participation and effort to mitigate biases.

Main Results:

Citizen science tick abundance estimates showed moderate correlation with surveillance data but exhibited systematic biases.
Incorporating collector participation and effort factors into statistical models significantly reduced data biases.
Improved tick population size estimations were achieved after bias correction.

Conclusions:

Citizen science data holds immense potential for ecological and epidemiological studies when biases are properly addressed.
Accounting for biases enhances the reliability of citizen science data, enabling more accurate species distribution mapping.
This approach facilitates the use of large-scale public datasets to answer scientific questions previously limited by traditional data collection methods.