Analytical guidelines to increase the value of citizen science data: using eBird data to estimate species occurrence
A. Johnston, W. M. Hochachka, M. Strimas-Mackey, V. Ruiz Gutierrez, O. J. Robinson, E. T. Miller, T. Auer, S. T. Kelling, D. Fink
This study improves species distribution estimates from eBird data by refining data processing and addressing biases, showing that complete checklists and effort covariates enhance model performance.
bioRxiv · Jun 23, 2020Ecology