Applications of participatory monitoring in biodiversity science and conservation
Doctoral thesis
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https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3059123Utgivelsesdato
2023Metadata
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- Institutt for naturhistorie [1213]
Sammendrag
Meeting the challenge of the growing biodiversity crisis requires high quality biodiversity knowledge integrated across scales from local to international. But despite rapid developments in the collection, integration, and mobilization of biodiversity data, the current extent of available species occurrence data is insufficient to develop conservation strategies for the majority of species worldwide. Participatory monitoring offers a way to increase the spatial, temporal, and taxonomic resolution of biodiversity data while integrating local knowledge into international conservation strategy. Recent decades have seen the rapid integration of participatory biodiversity monitoring into the mainstream of biodiversity science, though there remain challenges, including the analysis of unstructured data, integration of data across scales, and inclusion of underrepresented regions and communities. Research that seeks to characterize the current role of participatory biodiversity monitoring and the conditions that enable its contribution across varying contexts will be instrumental for guiding its continued development. The central aim of this thesis is to contribute to better understanding the current role of participatory biodiversity monitoring and to strengthening its future impact.
The thesis contains four articles. The first two address the role of participatory monitoring in protected areas. The first takes a global perspective, characterizing the contributions of participatory monitoring across a variety of protected area contexts worldwide. The second takes a local perspective, modeling participatory monitoring observations at a fine spatial scale within a small natural area with the aim of improving the utility of unstructured monitoring data in local applications. The third article directly applies participatory monitoring data in the context of conservation-relevant research, using multi-species occupancy modeling to investigate how competition may affect the range limits of willow ptarmigan and rock ptarmigan, two alpine bird species that are expected to face climate-driven habitat loss and range shifts throughout their ranges in Norway. The fourth article explores the relationship between participatory biodiversity monitoring and open data sharing, finding that participatory monitoring is paving the way in open sharing of biodiversity data but identifying several areas for potential improvement.
The results of this thesis make it clear that participatory monitoring drives a growing proportion of the world’s biodiversity knowledge and highlight some of the developments that support its increasingly central role in biodiversity science and conservation. The thesis further contributes to these developments, advancing an improved understanding of the participatory monitoring observation process at a fine spatial scale and identifying opportunities to expand the sharing and integration of data from participatory monitoring. Finally, the thesis directly applies participatory monitoring data to further the understanding of climate threats faced by two Norwegian species widely considered to be sentinels of climate change. Overall, this thesis suggests great capacity for the contribution of participatory monitoring to continue to increase. With growing awareness that bending the curve of biodiversity loss will require integrated action across scales from local to international, participatory monitoring is poised to have a central role.
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Paper 1: Mandeville CP, Nilsen EB, Herfindal I, Finstad AG. Participatory monitoring drives biodiversity knowledge in global protected areasPaper 2: Mandeville, Caitlin; Nilsen, Erlend Birkeland; Finstad, Anders Gravbrøt. Spatial distribution of biodiversity citizen science in a natural area depends on area accessibility and differs from other recreational area use. Ecological Solutions and Evidence 2022 ;Volum 3.(4) https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12185 This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0)
Paper 3: Mandeville CP, Finstad AG, Nilsen EB. Interspecific competition impacts the occupancy and range limits of two ptarmigan species along the elevation gradient in Norway
Paper 4: Mandeville, Caitlin; Koch, Wouter; Nilsen, Erlend Birkeland; Finstad, Anders Gravbrøt. Open Data Practices among Users of Primary Biodiversity Data. BioScience 2021 ;Volum 71.(11) s. 1128-1147 https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab072 This article is available under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC license