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Evaluating Promotional Approaches for Citizen Science Biological Recording: Bumblebees as a Group Versus Harmonia axyridis as a Flagship for Ladybirds

Comont, Richard F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9918-9813 and Ashbrook, Kate (2017) Evaluating Promotional Approaches for Citizen Science Biological Recording: Bumblebees as a Group Versus Harmonia axyridis as a Flagship for Ladybirds. BioControl: Journal of the International Organization for Biological Control, 62 (3). pp. 309-318. ISSN 1386-6141 Online: 1573-8248

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Abstract

Over the past decade, the number of biological records submitted by members of the public have increased dramatically. However, this may result in reduced record quality, depending on how species are promoted in the media. Here we examined the two main promotional approaches for citizen science recording schemes: flagship-species, using one charismatic species as an umbrella for the entire group (here, Harmonia axyridis (Pallas) for Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), and general-group, where the group is promoted as a whole and no particular prominence is given to any one species (here, bumblebees, genus Bombus (Hymenoptera: Apidae)). Of the two approaches, the
general-group approach produced data that was not
biased towards any one species, but far fewer records
per year overall. In contrast, the flagship-species
approach generated a much larger annual dataset, but
heavily biased towards the flagship itself. Therefore,
we recommend that the approach for species promotion
is fitted to the result desired.

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Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords: biological recording, citizen science, verification, Bombus, hypnorum, bumblebee, ladybird, SERG
Subjects: Q Science > QH Natural history
Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology
Q Science > QL Zoology
Divisions: College of Health, Life and Environmental Sciences > School of Science and the Environment
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Depositing User: Kate Ashbrook
Date Deposited: 28 Oct 2016 10:07
Last Modified: 11 Sep 2020 09:18
URI: https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/5013

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