Jeff’s scientific contributions

... In response, citizen science (hereafter "CS"), which refers to the public involvement in scientific research, has arisen as a powerful approach for generating scientific knowledge from local to global scales across multiple taxa (Dickinson et al., 2010;McKinley et al., 2017;Pocock et al., 2015). This has been favored by the development and rapid spread of new, user-friendly digital technologies and tools, such as online platforms and smartphone applications, which have fostered the participation of volunteers collaborating with the scientific community in generating new data (Howe, 2006;Maund et al., 2020;Wiggins, 2012). This collaborative approach has led to the generation and storage of a large amount of open biodiversity data (Ball-Damerow et al., 2019;Sullivan et al., 2014), which have provided significant contributions in ecological assessments concerning biodiversity monitoring (Chandler et al., 2017), global change (Theobald et al., 2015), species distribution models (Feldman et al., 2021) or invasive species distributions (Crall et al., 2015). ...

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Inconspicuous taxa in citizen science-based botanical research: actual contribution, limitations, and new opportunities for non-vascular cryptogams