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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Community science"”.
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Morphological Variation and Community Science in Orthoptera
<p>Patterns of morphological divergence across species’ ranges provide insight into local adaptation and speciation. Here, we compare phenotypic divergence among 4,221 crickets from 337 populations of two related species of field cricket, Gryllus firmus and G. pennsylvanicus and their hybrids. We …
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Assessing nearshore water quality and biological condition in the Kawartha Lakes using a community science approach
… scale. I also monitored the nearshore biotic community (phytoplankton, zooplankton, and macroinvertebrates) at eight sites in Lake Scugog. Two years of sampling found that macrophyte abundance significantly influenced the phytoplankton, zooplankton, and macroinvertebrate communities. During …
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Determining habitat preferences of Dasypus novemcinctus and assessing prevalence of Hansen's disease in Tennessee with assistance from community science data
… there are ways to use limited resources and community science to assist in filling knowledge gaps, which can then provide a baseline for where to begin research efforts. My research used community science and roadkill surveys to study habitat preferences across the state of Tennessee and …
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Urban wildlife species detection, species richness, and community shifts along a gradient of urbanization in an agriculturally embedded landscape using passive and active methods
… I analysed two methods, trail cameras and a community science project, to determine factors that influence probability of species detection, understand differences in species detected, and assess how many trail cameras or community science routes are needed to detect target species. Both …
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Science, Community, and Culture: A Holistic Approach to Ecological Research and Education
… is the integration of species observations by community members (e.g., community science). Along with improving modeling techniques to address biodiversity declines, the education of future ecologists on the importance of Indigenous ecological knowledge, robust scientific research, and …
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Expanding Audience Engagement with State Wildlife Agencies: Strategies for Supporting Diverse Participation
… of focus groups with outdoor recreation and community science practitioners and participants, we aimed to understand what encouraged BIPOC Minnesotans to participate in nature-based community science programs. We found that participants rely on numerous forms of cultural capital to persist in …
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Compound Events and Exposure Science: Characterizing Mixtures and Assessing Cumulative Risks Using Participatory Research Methods
… analysis, climate-driven exposure pathways, and community-based research. Rather than focusing on a single pollutant, it examined metal(loid)s, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and dioxins across soil, rooftop-harvested rainwater, settled dust, …
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When the Map Fails the Territory: Hidden State Models, Complex Traits and the Evolution of Bird Migration
… metrics of bird movement from large-scale community science (eBird) data, using entropy-based measures and phylogenetically aligned component analysis (PACA) to reveal a multi-dimensional structure of evolutionarily relevant combinations of traits, representing underlying movement behavior …
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Comparing Phylogenetic and Deep Learning Methods to Predict Seed Dispersal Mode
… demonstrate great potential in learning from community science photographs, despite their underperformance in this study. Furthermore, the study shows that incorporating a feature-extraction model could improve predictions of a single CNN model, highlighting the potential for future studies to …
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It's not all about classrooms: examining the importance of club sports
… and overall college adjustment. The Sense of Community Index 2 (SCI2) was developed by a community science organization (Chavis, Lee, & Acosta, 2008) and was used in this study to further examine the social aspects of club sports and student organizations. There were 124 participants in this …
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Cities for birds, birds for cities: The urban ecology of birds across scales from global sampling to individual responses
… Comparisons with eBird show that opportunistic community-science data are skewed towards greenspaces in wealthy cities, which can inflate species richness estimates, whereas stratified, randomized surveys used in the Global Urban Bird Survey provide more representative coverage and more …
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Addressing Insect Declines Via Biodiversity Monitoring, Ecological Restoration, and Population Genetics
… to an insect and avian dataset generated via a community-science biodiversity survey (bioblitz) shows the RRSS was less taxonomically, spatially, and temporally biased than the bioblitz dataset. Moreover, RRSS data was able to be analyzed in statistical models, while bioblitz data could not be …
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From care inside the laboratory to the world beyond it: a multispecies ethnography of TB science towards growing a decolonised science in South Africa
… subjectivity/objectivity and science/society are porous. Acutely aware of the socio-political moment in which this research was embedded, these findings are put into conversation with South African student calls to decolonise science that emerged alongside the #RhodesMustFall …
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Biology of Chauliognathus spp. (Hentz) (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) in Virginia agroecosystems
… bergamot (Monarda fistulosa L.). I also used a community science-based approach to evaluate the usage of host plants and flower colors by C. marginatus and C. pensylvanicus. Chauliognathus marginatus utilized white flowers more than expected based on their potential availability, while C. …
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Bats, cities, and trees: The response of Midwestern bats to the urban forest gradient
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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“Anyone can be a scientist”: Constructions of expertise and citizenship in citizen science literate activity
Citizen science, a set of practices that involves public, non-professional scientists in scientific research and policy, has since seen a steady rise since the mid-1990s (Woolley et al., 2016). The increase in citizen science projects in STEM mirrors the “public turn” in writing studies in that …
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Pollinator conservation and access to pollinators on an urban-rural gradient
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Landscape and design influence bee and parasite communities in garden bee hotels
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Extra-Institutional Science and the Democratization of Scientific Practice: DIY Biology in Canada, Great Britain, and Germany
… up their laboratories in garages, kitchens, or community spaces. They experiment with gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR, grow glow-in-the-dark plants and engineer colourful fungi. The DIY biology movement is a reminder that science is not a natural or essential entity; its boundaries are …
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The ManhattAnt: Identification, natural history, and nutritional ecology of a recently introduced pest in New York City, Lasius emarginatus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
<p>New York City is one of the oldest and largest cities in North America, and it is a center for global trade and shipping. As such, it has also been the site of introduction for some of North America’s most damaging invasive pests, from chestnut blight to the Asian long-horned beetle. Despite …
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