Harnessing online digital data in biodiversity monitoring

Andrea Soriano-Redondo; Ricardo A Correia; Vijay Barve; Thomas M Brooks; Stuart H M Butchart; Ivan Jarić; Ritwik Kulkarni; Richard J Ladle; Ana Sofia Vaz; Enrico Di Minin

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002497

Harnessing online digital data in biodiversity monitoring

PLoS Biol. 2024 Feb 15;22(2):e3002497. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002497. eCollection 2024 Feb.

Authors

Andrea Soriano-Redondo¹, Ricardo A Correia^{1

2

3}, Vijay Barve⁴, Thomas M Brooks^{5

6

7}, Stuart H M Butchart^{8

9}, Ivan Jarić^{10

11}, Ritwik Kulkarni¹, Richard J Ladle^{12

13}, Ana Sofia Vaz^{13

14

15}, Enrico Di Minin^{1

2

16}

Affiliations

¹ Helsinki Lab of Interdisciplinary Conservation Science (HELICS), Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
² Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
³ Biodiversity Unit, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
⁴ Marine Biodiversity Center, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
⁵ International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Gland, Switzerland.
⁶ World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), University of the Philippines Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines.
⁷ Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
⁸ BirdLife International, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
⁹ Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
¹⁰ Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Ecologie Systématique Evolution-IDEEV, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
¹¹ Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
¹² Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil.
¹³ CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal.
¹⁴ Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
¹⁵ BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, Vairão, Portugal.
¹⁶ School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.

Abstract

Online digital data from media platforms have the potential to complement biodiversity monitoring efforts. We propose a strategy for integrating these data into current biodiversity datasets in light of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

Copyright: © 2024 Soriano-Redondo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

MeSH terms

Biodiversity*
Conservation of Natural Resources*

Grants and funding

A.S.R. was supported by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship (101022521). R.A.C. acknowledges personal funding from the Academy of Finland (348352) and from the KONE Foundation (202101976). R.K. and E.D.M. thank the European Research Council (ERC) for funding under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (802933). R.K. was supported by the KONE Foundation research grant (202103830). I.J. was supported by the Czech Science Foundation (23-07278S). A.S.V. acknowledges support from the FCT - Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology through the program Stimulus for Scientific Employment - Individual Support (2020.01175.CEECIND/CP1601/CT0009), and project ClimateMedia - Understanding climate change phenomena and impacts from digital technology and social media (2022.06965.PTDC). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.