Citizen Science and Monitoring Forest Pests: a Beneficial Alliance?

Maarten de Groot Michael J O Pocock Jochem Bonte Pilar Fernandez-Conradi Elena Valdés-Correcher

Published 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.

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public health
healthcare
climate change
mental health
current status
primary care
quality improvement
risk assessment
social media