利用公民科学监测重新殖民的大型草食动物的机遇和挑战
Emu-Felicitas Ostermann-Miyashita1,2, Hendrik Bluhm3, Kornelia Dobiáš4
1Faculty of Life Sciences Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Berlin Germany.
Ecology and evolution
|September 4, 2023
概括
公民科学有效地监测低密度的野生动物,如欧亚长 (Alces alces). 邮件/电子邮件报告产生了最多的数据,但空间偏差突出了对野生动物保护的结构化公众参与的需要.
科学领域:
- 野生动物生态学野生动物生态学
- 保护生物学 保护生物学
- 公民科学是公民科学.
背景情况:
- 有效的野生动物管理需要强大的监测数据,特别是低密度物种.
- 传统的方法与像欧亚长 (Alces alces) 这样的物种进行斗争,这些物种存在于小种群中.
- 公民科学通过让公众参与数据收集提供了一个潜在的解决方案.
研究的目的:
- 评估不同公民科学工具在德国监测欧亚长的有效性.
- 评估公民科学数据的数量,质量和潜在偏差.
- 为改善基于科学的公民野生动物监测提供建议.
主要方法:
- 他们使用了三个公民科学工具:邮件/电子邮件报告,智能手机应用程序和网页.
- 收集的数据被分析为数量,报告的类型和时间.
- 公民科学数据与息地适应性和连接性地图进行了比较,以确定空间偏差.
主要成果:
- 邮件/电子邮件系统产生了最多的老鼠报告,无论是绝对的还是标准化的.
- 大多数报告都发现了单一的成年雄鹿,主要是在夏末.
- 鹿在合适的息地被检测到,但并不总是在移动走廊,偏向于在道路附近的检测.
结论:
- 公民科学,特别是简单的数字报告,可以帮助收集低密度物种的野生动物数据.
- 来自公民科学数据的推断可以通过未定量的抽样偏见来限制.
- 建议在目标地区进行结构化的公众参与,以提高欧亚鹿保护数据的稳定性.
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