Citizen Science in the Class-Room: The Consistency of Student Collected Data and Its Value in Ecological Hypothesis Testing

Tsujimoto, Daichi; Lin, Chun‐Ho; Kurihara, Nozomi; Barnett, Craig A.

doi:10.2326/osj.18.39

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“…The bird count was performed at the centre of a 50 m diameter circle of the study site. Bird counts were performed during the 4-day experimental stage [see 21 , 25 for further details of bird count methods].…”

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Avian predators taste reject mimetic prey in relation to their signal reliability

Pagani‐Núñez

Goodale

et al. 2022

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Aposematic organisms defend themselves through various means to increase their unprofitability to predators which they advertise with conspicuous warning signals. Predators learn to avoid aposematic prey through associative learning that leads to lower predation. However, when these visual signals become unreliable (e.g., through automimicry or Batesian mimicry), predators may switch from using visual signals to taste sampling prey to choose among them. In this experiment, we tested this possibility in a field experiment where we released a total of 4800 mealworm prey in two clusters consisting of either: (i) undefended prey (injected with water) and (ii) model-mimics (injected with either quinine sulphate [models] or water [mimics]). Prey were deployed at 12 sites, with the mimic frequency of the model-mimics ranging between 0 and 1 (at 0.2 intervals). We found that taste rejection peaked at moderate mimic frequencies (0.4 and 0.6), supporting the idea that taste sampling and rejection of prey is related to signal reliability and predator uncertainty. This is the first time that taste-rejection has been shown to be related to the reliability of prey signals in a mimetic prey system.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Avian predators taste reject mimetic prey in relation to their signal reliability

Pagani‐Núñez

Goodale

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“…Bias and inconsistency in data collections usually occurred in citizen science particularly due to observer heterogeneity (Burgess et al 2017;van der Velde et al 2017;Tsujimoto et al 2019). One of the challenges in conducting online biological classes was particularly in providing training on field observations due to the lack of interactions.…”

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“…Residential home gardens can be considered as under-surveyed areas with the advantage of not requiring special permission (Smith and Hamed 2020). Involving students in science projects is also giving them their first career experience in research (Tsujimoto et al 2019).…”

Section: Detections Of Urban Bird Communitymentioning

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Fieldwork during pandemic: Backyard bird survey and making student’s biological field practice works

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Abstract. Winarni NL, Anugra BG, Anisafitri S, Kaunain NN, Pradana DH. 2021. Fieldwork during pandemic: Backyard bird survey and making student’s biological field practice works. Biodiversitas 22: 1887-1894. The COVID-19 pandemic situations had forced universities to shutdown face-to-face lectures and change it to online teaching. This change had brought significant challenges to biological courses which need field practice in their syllabus and therefore field practice should be adjusted and innovative. During November-December 2020, we compared students' field practice from the Ornithology class to urban bird survey to evaluate whether the data collected by students can contribute to citizen science as well as to enhance field practice during online courses. We used point count methods to survey bird communities in urban environment in Jakarta and its satellite cities. We found that the students tended to observe the most abundant birds such as the cave swiftlet and Eurasian tree sparrow and missed unfamiliar species which were smaller-sized birds that use aerial and upper canopy. It was suggested that the data from field practice can also support citizen science when prioritized to common, abundance species. In addition, best practices for field practice were provided, emphasizing the independent field practice incorporating technology in which the results were communicated to the students. Hence, strengthening field practice for biological courses is important to support biodiversity conservation research and activities.

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Differences in predatory behavior among three bird species when attacking chemically defended and undefended prey

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Ringhofer

Suzuki

2020

J Ethol

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Citizen Science in the Class-Room: The Consistency of Student Collected Data and Its Value in Ecological Hypothesis Testing

Cited by 5 publications

References 30 publications

Avian predators taste reject mimetic prey in relation to their signal reliability

Avian predators taste reject mimetic prey in relation to their signal reliability

Fieldwork during pandemic: Backyard bird survey and making student’s biological field practice works

Differences in predatory behavior among three bird species when attacking chemically defended and undefended prey

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