Databases, Scaling Practices, and the Globalization of Biodiversity

Turnhout, Esther; Boonman‐Berson, Susan

doi:10.5751/es-03981-160135

Cited by 54 publications

(27 citation statements)

References 34 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…However, Ellis and Waterton (2005, p. 688) note that tensions may arise when volunteer data become ''disembedded from their original source and the humannature contractual relationships which are implied in their production''. The standardisation and decontextualisation implicit in centralised biodiversity databases provides opportunities for conservation, yet we must be wary of the contextual richness we lose in the process and the effects this has on both data utilisation and volunteer motivation (Turnhout and Boonman-Berson 2011;Turnhout et al 2016). This requires project managers to consider the views of citizen scientists regarding ownership and appropriate use of their data.…”

Section: Data Sharing In Citizen Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

Sharing biodiversity data: citizen scientists’ concerns and motivations

et al. 2017

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Citizen scientists play a pivotal role in providing necessary biodiversity data. To ensure the continued involvement of a strong volunteer base, insight into the concerns and motivations of voluntary recorders is crucial. This paper presents the findings of a largescale survey (N = 2193) among Dutch volunteer biodiversity recorders of diverse taxa, and focuses on three questions: what are the characteristics of these citizen scientists regarding their activities and socio-demographic background, what are their motivations for recording biodiversity, and what are their views on data sharing and ownership? Our findings show that a connection to, interest in and concern for nature are the most important motivations for biodiversity recorders. Volunteer recorders have high expectations regarding the impact of their data, both for their own learning as well as for science and management. Almost half the volunteers consider their data to be public goods, but this does not mean they support unconditional data sharing. Instead, the acceptability of data sharing with third parties seems strongly linked to the goals of the user. We discuss the implications of our findings for practitioners, such as the role of biology curricula and the importance of learning opportunities to redress the lack of younger volunteers. We argue that conceptualising volunteer recorders as data custodians rather than owners helps to Communicated by Peter Bridgewater.This article belongs to the Topical Collection: Biodiversity appreciation and engagement.Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article

show abstract

Section: Data Sharing In Citizen Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

Sharing biodiversity data: citizen scientists’ concerns and motivations

et al. 2017

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Of the six case study papers, roughly four deal predominantly with scale (de Blaeij et al 2011, Turnhout and Boonman-Berson 2011, van Apeldoorn et al 2011, van Lieshout et al 2011 and two with governance (Mandemaker et al 2011, van der Veen andTagel 2011). The papers show the application of a wide variety of methods, thus also spawning multiple disciplines and theoretical starting points.…”

Section: Case Study Papers: Practical Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In two cases scale is regarded as either constructed (Turnhout and Boonman-Berson 2011), or in the very least framed (van Lieshout et al 2011). In other papers a more realist stance is taken, assuming that scales and levels exist in reality and can be discovered and modeled (notably van Apeldoorn et al 2011).…”

Section: On Scalementioning

confidence: 99%

Scale and Governance: Conceptual Considerations and Practical Implications

Kok¹,

Veldkamp²

2011

E&S

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

ABSTRACT. Policies have many unforeseen impacts on social-ecological systems at different levels of spatial and temporal scales. Partly because of this, both scale and governance have been and continue to be hotly debated and studied topics within many scientific disciplines. Although there are two distinct vocabularies, both communities seem to be struggling to come to terms with a shift that has common elements. This special feature has two types of contributions, three scoping papers, providing a state-ofthe-art overview of the conceptual discussion, and six case study papers that set out to deal with the practicalities of combining scale and governance. The scoping papers strongly indicate that using the notion of complex systems, specifically the social-ecological system, is needed to improve the understanding of scale and governance. They furthermore confirm that both communities are shifting. Additionally, the papers show several promising ways forward to link scale and governance, even though they differ in their suggestions on most important courses of action and research agendas. The case study papers show that conceptual advances have not been taken up to their full extent in practice. Importantly, none of the papers is being very specific on the definition of the term governance. Additionally, most attention is given to spatial, temporal, and jurisdictional scales, largely ignoring, for example, network and knowledge scales. What is urgently needed are more case study papers that explicitly make use of the conceptual literature and through that attempt to link scale and governance. Ultimately, there is a challenge to more effectively include nonscientists in the debate. A transdisciplinary arena is required where the concepts of scale and governance are framed such that a broad variety of stakeholders can join the debate and/or the decision making process.

show abstract

“…Statistics play a crucial role in the validation of biodiversity records. Statistical analyses are used to assess and, where possible, reduce standard error, and to upscale point data to full-coverage representations (Turnhout & Boonman-Berson 2011). In fact, statistics have become so important that many biodiversity recording and monitoring schemes are specifically planned to enable statistical analyses.…”

Section: Records Travel To National and Transnational Biodiversity Inmentioning

confidence: 99%