Assessing the usefulness of citizen science data for habitat suitability modelling: Opportunistic reporting versus sampling based on a systematic protocol

To evaluate the potential of models based on opportunistic reporting (OR) compared to models based on data from a systematic protocol (SP) for modelling species distributions. We compared model performance for eight forest bird species with contrasting spatial distributions, habitat requirements and rarity. Differences in the reporting of species were also assessed. Finally, we tested potential improvement of models when inferring high‐quality absences from OR based on questionnaires sent to observers.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Diversity and Distributions: A journal of biological invasions and biodiversity

• Publication date

  2020-07-20

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/ddi.13128
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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