Citizen Science in the Study of Marine Biodiversity: The case of Iconic and Cryptic Syngnathids

Citizen science invites the public to participate in both scientific thinking and data collection. Citizen science adds new collaborators whose contributions help to gather or analyse data on a large scale particularly relevant for emerging questions about the distribution and abundance of organisms...

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Autores: Castejón-Silvo, Inés, Terrados, Jorge, Morales-Nin, Beatriz
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Palabra clave:Syngnathids
Atlantic
Citizen science
Mediterranean
Monitoring
Pipefish
Sea watchers
Seahorses
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spelling Citizen Science in the Study of Marine Biodiversity: The case of Iconic and Cryptic SyngnathidsCastejón-Silvo, InésTerrados, JorgeMorales-Nin, BeatrizSyngnathidsAtlanticCitizen scienceMediterraneanMonitoringPipefishSea watchersSeahorsesCitizen science invites the public to participate in both scientific thinking and data collection. Citizen science adds new collaborators whose contributions help to gather or analyse data on a large scale particularly relevant for emerging questions about the distribution and abundance of organisms across space and time. Syngnathids are cryptic fishes that inhabits temperate and tropical sheltered, coastal marine waters. Pipefishes and seahorses are threatened by habitat loss and degradation. Unfortunately, data on biological and ecological aspects and population trends are rarely available in most species. More than half of the thirteen-syngnathid species inhabiting Spanish coasts are considered Data Deficient for population evaluation. Citizen science is an opportunity to improve data availability for the study of syngnathid population tendencies and monitoring. This contribution describes and discusses the approach followed by Sea Watchers citizen science platform. We analysed and discussed the data provided by the observers, and the distribution data of species based on citizen science surveillance. Citizen science achieved the expansion of spatial and temporal dataset of syngnathid distribution. However, the obtained information is affected by observers’ behaviour and suggest that the observers performed focussed surveys to find individuals of these slow motion iconic fishes, introducing biases in the data.We acknowledge the support provided by projects Hippoparques (OAPN-MITECO, 1541 S/2015) and SyngDoc (FCT-16-10804, FECYT-MINECO). We are in debt with the volunteer observers, thanks to their cooperation. The web page (https://www.seawatchers.net/Projects/View/13) construction was supported by the Govern de les Illes Balears grant Nº AAEE84/2015. Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature.Peer reviewedSpringer NatureConferencia de Rectores de las Universidades EspañolasConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España)Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la TecnologíaGovern de les Illes BalearsCastejón-Silvo, Inés [0000-0003-1247-787X]Terrados, Jorge [0000-0002-0921-721X]Morales-Nin, Beatriz [0000-0002-7264-0918]Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]202420242023info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/353115https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85167838043reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Ingléshttps://doi.org/10.1007/s41208-023-00590-1Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/3531152026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Citizen Science in the Study of Marine Biodiversity: The case of Iconic and Cryptic Syngnathids
title Citizen Science in the Study of Marine Biodiversity: The case of Iconic and Cryptic Syngnathids
spellingShingle Citizen Science in the Study of Marine Biodiversity: The case of Iconic and Cryptic Syngnathids
Castejón-Silvo, Inés
Syngnathids
Atlantic
Citizen science
Mediterranean
Monitoring
Pipefish
Sea watchers
Seahorses
title_short Citizen Science in the Study of Marine Biodiversity: The case of Iconic and Cryptic Syngnathids
title_full Citizen Science in the Study of Marine Biodiversity: The case of Iconic and Cryptic Syngnathids
title_fullStr Citizen Science in the Study of Marine Biodiversity: The case of Iconic and Cryptic Syngnathids
title_full_unstemmed Citizen Science in the Study of Marine Biodiversity: The case of Iconic and Cryptic Syngnathids
title_sort Citizen Science in the Study of Marine Biodiversity: The case of Iconic and Cryptic Syngnathids
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Castejón-Silvo, Inés
Terrados, Jorge
Morales-Nin, Beatriz
author Castejón-Silvo, Inés
author_facet Castejón-Silvo, Inés
Terrados, Jorge
Morales-Nin, Beatriz
author_role author
author2 Terrados, Jorge
Morales-Nin, Beatriz
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Conferencia de Rectores de las Universidades Españolas
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España)
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología
Govern de les Illes Balears
Castejón-Silvo, Inés [0000-0003-1247-787X]
Terrados, Jorge [0000-0002-0921-721X]
Morales-Nin, Beatriz [0000-0002-7264-0918]
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Syngnathids
Atlantic
Citizen science
Mediterranean
Monitoring
Pipefish
Sea watchers
Seahorses
topic Syngnathids
Atlantic
Citizen science
Mediterranean
Monitoring
Pipefish
Sea watchers
Seahorses
description Citizen science invites the public to participate in both scientific thinking and data collection. Citizen science adds new collaborators whose contributions help to gather or analyse data on a large scale particularly relevant for emerging questions about the distribution and abundance of organisms across space and time. Syngnathids are cryptic fishes that inhabits temperate and tropical sheltered, coastal marine waters. Pipefishes and seahorses are threatened by habitat loss and degradation. Unfortunately, data on biological and ecological aspects and population trends are rarely available in most species. More than half of the thirteen-syngnathid species inhabiting Spanish coasts are considered Data Deficient for population evaluation. Citizen science is an opportunity to improve data availability for the study of syngnathid population tendencies and monitoring. This contribution describes and discusses the approach followed by Sea Watchers citizen science platform. We analysed and discussed the data provided by the observers, and the distribution data of species based on citizen science surveillance. Citizen science achieved the expansion of spatial and temporal dataset of syngnathid distribution. However, the obtained information is affected by observers’ behaviour and suggest that the observers performed focussed surveys to find individuals of these slow motion iconic fishes, introducing biases in the data.
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