Citizen Science and Monitoring Forest Pests: a Beneficial Alliance?
Maarten de GrootMichael J O PocockJochem BontePilar Fernández-ConradiElena Valdés-CorrecherPublished in: Current forestry reports (2022)
Future monitoring and research may benefit from tailor-made citizen science projects to facilitate successful monitoring by citizen scientists and expand their practice to countries where the forest health sector is less developed. In this sense, citizen scientists can help understand and detect outbreaks of new pests and avoid problems in the future.