What is it about?
Basic population measures are needed to make informed conservation decisions. This article shows how this can be done for South Africa's birds using the citizen science SABAP database (hosted at University of Cape Town), where bird watchers upload lists following set protocol.
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Why is it important?
There are too many species for conservation biologists to keep track of all at once: overlooked and uncharismatic species may slip through conservation effort gaps. Now, quickly and easily it is possible to use citizen science data to examine trends in populations, ranges and fragmentation for bird species in southern Africa, although the model can be extended more broadly to other citizen science projects.
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This page is a summary of: Estimating conservation metrics from atlas data: the case of southern African endemic birds, Bird Conservation International, March 2017, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0959270916000307.
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