The history of public participation in ecological research

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment - Tập 10 Số 6 - Trang 285-290 - 2012
Abraham J. Miller‐Rushing1, Richard B. Primack2, Rick Bonney3
1Schoodic Education and Research Center and Acadia National Park, US National Park Service, Bar Harbor, ME
2Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA
3Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Tóm tắt

Members of the public have for centuries recorded their observations of the natural world, including plant and animal distribution and phenology, water quality, weather data, and astronomical phenomena. Given the relatively recent growth of ecological research as a professional field of study, the historical contributions of amateurs to ecology can be easily overlooked. To better understand long‐term changes in ecosystems, researchers are now revisiting many of these historical datasets collected by non‐professionals. Over the past 100 years, scientific organizations have increasingly included volunteers in large‐scale monitoring projects to broaden the geographical extent and sample size of observations. We believe that a renewed interest in citizen science, enriched with the perspective and data provided by the long tradition of public participation in science, will broaden the engagement of the public in ecological research and lead to new scientific insights.

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Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Tập 10 Số 6

285-290

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