LAUNCHING CITIZEN SCIENCE PROJECTS IN KOREA: FEEDBACKS, RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES, CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES
Hortense Serret, Yikweon Jang April, 21st, 2018
• Why Citizen sciences in Korea? • Feedbacks about the pollinators and the cicadas programs
• Challenges for the futur
• Why Citizen sciences in Korea? • Feedbacks about the pollinators and the cicadas programs
• Challenges for the futur
Citizen science The involvement of the general public into scientific research
Why do scientists need the general public?
Collection at a large scale
Data Ordering Exploration Analysis
Why Citizen science in Ecology? Biodersity erosion is a moral issue and a threat for humans well-being
A POLITICAL STAKE « Raising people awareness and participation » Priority 1. Mainstreaming Biodiversity – Action 2
K-GBIF DATA FOR 2016 AND 2017
Korea needs citizen science data!!! No data
C.atrata
8 observations (54 times less)
H. fuscata 5 observations (83 times less)
M. Opalifera and mongolica
RECREATE LINKS BETWEEN HUMAN AN NATURE Since 2007, the city dwellers are more numerous than people living in urban areas We are more and more disconnected with Nature… .. and suffering from an « extinction of experience » (Miller 2005)
RECONNECTION, A STEP TOWARDS CONSERVATION “To the degree that we come to understand other organisms, we will place a greater value of them and on ourselves” (E.O. Wilson, Biophilia)
Citizen sciences and biodiversity Involving
Understanding Populations composition, dynamics, habitats preferences
Involving the general public while raising their awareness about biodiversity issues
Managing Creation of monitoring index, landscape planning, change of practices
• Why Citizen sciences in Korea? • Feedbacks about the pollinators and the cicadas programs
• Challenges for the futur
Examples of citizen science programs in South Korea
In partnership with
2 PROGRAMS RUNNING FOR 2 YEARS
Around 10 000 pictures sent by 132 observers
3 600 observations (pictures, audio recordings, videos) by 195 observers
EDUCATION ANIMATIONS
DATA COLLECTED IN 2016 AND 2017 Pollinators
• 3215 localised pictures identified • 278 species from 190 genus
Cicadas
• 1495 audio or video recordings • The 8 main species in Korea
RESEARCH QUESTIONS • Composition of the communities
• Distributions • Phenology • Habitats affinity, speciality index, sensitivity to urbanization • Dynamics of populations
AFFINITY OF POLLINATORS FAMILIES WITH URBAN FEATURES • Distribution based on Maximum of Entropy (software Maxent) • Biotope, impermeability, land use, green cover, distance to water Syrphidae Family
Apidae Family
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Forest Industry Green spaces Wetlands and water Agriculture Residential areas Commercial areas Transportation Wastelands
INFLUENCE OF URBAN AREAS PROPORTIONS ON CICADAS PHENOLOGY
Urban > 70 % of urban areas
Moderate to Low Urban < 70 % of urban areas
MORE URBAN, EARLIER H. fuscata
C. atrata
HU
MLU
Urban (139 obs) 1st recording of the year
1st recording of the year
In dense urban areas, the 1st records is 20 days earlier for H. fuscata, 4 days earlier for C. atrata The maximum peaks are significantly earlier (Wilcoxon test) in urban areas for C. atrata value= 0,035) and H. fuscata (p-value= 0,005)
(p-
• Why Citizen sciences in Korea? • Feedbacks about the pollinators and the cicadas programs
• Challenges for the futur
DIFFERENT LEVELS OF INVOLVEMENT, UNDERSTANDING OF THE SCIENTIFIC PROBLEMATIC AND DATA QUALITY Observer’s attitude
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Provide ressources (computers power) Data collection
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Data collection with a protocol
Identification of pictures, interpretation of the data
Contribution to scientific questions, total comprehension of the scientific issues
Structured data
Quantitative analyses, comparision between communities composition, dynamics trends, etc. Level 2: Contribution to the interpretation of the data
Level 3 : Contribution to research questions and data collection •
Opportunistic data
General, descriptive analysis
Level of participation
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Researcher’s point of view
Level 1: Data collection
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Data almost ready to analyze!
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Co-construction of scientific knowledge
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Study of problematics linked to citizen intrerests
IDENTIFICATION KEYS, GUIDES, GAMES
Which species is it?
H. fuscata
C. atrata
And to the observers…
고맙습니다!!
Hortense Serret
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