公民科学的力量,以推进真菌保护
Danny Haelewaters1,2,3, C Alisha Quandt1, Lachlan Bartrop4
1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Conservation letters
|October 7, 2024
概括
公民科学项目可以通过收集重要的多样性数据,显著帮助保护真菌. 让业余爱好者和社区参与,有助于克服真菌监测和风险评估方面的挑战.
科学领域:
- 菌类学 菌类学是指菌类学.
- 保护生物学 保护生物学
- 公民科学 公民科学
背景情况:
- 全球真菌保护工作面临挑战,原因是真菌多样性,种群趋势和地理范围的数据有限.
- 对真菌物种进行准确的灭绝风险评估受到它们的巨大多样性,复杂的分类学和神秘性质的阻碍.
- 现有的数据收集方法不足以满足全面的真菌保护需求.
研究的目的:
- 探索公民科学 (CS) 项目的潜力,以促进真菌保护.
- 举例介绍一下专注于记录和监测真菌多样性的CS项目.
- 检查挑战,并提出解决方案,以有效的CS在真菌学.
主要方法:
- 审查过去和正在进行的公民科学项目,以记录和监测真菌多样性.
- 基于采样策略的项目分类 (广泛采集,有针对性的采样,环境采样).
- 分析与数据采集,物种缺失估计,参与,数据策划和保护行动相关的挑战和解决方案.
主要成果:
- 公民科学项目为捕获真菌数据提供了多种方法,包括广泛,有针对性和环境采样.
- 科普科学项目可以设计为估计物种缺失,扩大参与,提高数据质量.
- 成功的CS举措需要数据策划和转化为可操作的保护措施的策略.
结论:
- 公民科学是克服真菌保护数据局限性的宝贵工具.
- 专业真菌学家,业余爱好者和当地社区之间的合作对于有效的真菌监测至关重要.
- 提出了一个框架,以指导公民科学融入真菌学研究和保护.
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