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eButterfly: Leveraging Massive Online Citizen Science for Butterfly Conservation
| العنوان: | eButterfly: Leveraging Massive Online Citizen Science for Butterfly Conservation |
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| المؤلفون: | Prudic, Kathleen, McFarland, Kent, Oliver, Jeffrey, Hutchinson, Rebecca, Long, Elizabeth, Kerr, Jeremy, Larrivée, Maxim |
| Thesis Advisors: | Univ Arizona, Entomol |
| بيانات النشر: | MDPI AG, 2017. |
| سنة النشر: | 2017 |
| المجموعة: | University of Arizona |
| Original Material: | eButterfly: Leveraging Massive Online Citizen Science for Butterfly Conservation 2017, 8 (4):53 Insects Insects |
| الوصف: | 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 created a near real-time butterfly data resource producing tens of thousands of observations per year open to all to share and explore. |
| Original Identifier: | oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/626609 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Article |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2075-4450 |
| Relation: | http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/8/2/53 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/insects8020053 |
| الاتاحة: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626609 http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/626609 |
| Rights: | © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsndl.arizona.edu.oai.arizona.openrepository.com.10150.626609 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 20754450 |
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| DOI: | 10.3390/insects8020053 |