Do amateurs and citizen science fill the gaps left by scientists?
| Autor: | Anne-Caroline Prévot, Colin Fontaine, Benoît Fontaine |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la COnservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Insecta media_common.quotation_subject Distribution (economics) Biology 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences Insect ecology 03 medical and health sciences Order (exchange) Taxonomy (general) Citizen science Animals Ecosystem Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS media_common Citizen Science Ecology business.industry Sign (semiotics) Environmental ethics 030104 developmental biology Insect Science Scale (social sciences) [SDE]Environmental Sciences business Diversity (politics) |
| Zdroj: | Current Opinion in Insect Science Current Opinion in Insect Science, Elsevier, 2021, 46, pp.83-87. ⟨10.1016/j.cois.2021.03.001⟩ |
| ISSN: | 2214-5745 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cois.2021.03.001⟩ |
| Popis: | The diversity of insects is tremendous and so is the effort needed to assess it in order to better understand insect ecology as well as their role for the functioning of ecosystems. While the interest of academics and naturalists for these species has always existed, it is only recently that such interest started to reach society more generally. From insect taxonomy and distribution to the collection of large range and long scale monitoring data, the involvement of non-academics in research outputs is growing. Is this a sign of scientists not being able to meet expectations or of science getting more and more entrenched in society? We argue for the latter, highlighting the opportunities that such involvement of amateurs in insect science represent for insect conservation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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