Using citizen science data to improve regional bird species list:A case study in Shaanxi,China

作     者：Ying Ding Lichuan Xiong Fandi Ji Junhui Lu Xiaojia Zhu Huateng Huang Ying Ding;Lichuan Xiong;Fandi Ji;Junhui Lu;Xiaojia Zhu;Huateng Huang

作者机构：College of Life SciencesShaanxi Normal UniversityXi'an710119China 

出 版 物：《Avian Research》 (鸟类学研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2022年第13卷第3期

页      面：341-346页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 07[理学] 071002[理学-动物学] 

基　　金：supported by the Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program of Shaanxi Normal University(grant number cx2019162) the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant number 31970407 to H.H.and grant number 31900313 to X.Z.) 

主　　题：Bird distribution Birdwatching Citizen science Expert knowledge Species checklist 

摘      要：An accurate and updated regional bird species checklist is the foundation for biodiversity research and ***,with ongoing climate and landscape changes,tracking the distributions of bird species is challenging,and expert-curated species lists are often limited regarding survey area and *** in China is becoming increasingly popular,and observations recorded by citizen birders are quickly increasing as *** the value of these data for improving regional species lists and studying bird distribution needs a detailed and quantitative comparison of citizen science data and expert-curated *** collected observation reports from the China Bird Report Center,the largest online open platform for sharing bird sightings in *** focused on reports from 2016 to 2019 in Shaanxi *** expert-curated species lists,we used three sources:the latest bird field guide published by local ornithologists,the province list from Avibase,and a list generated from overlaying distribution range from BirdLife International with the outline of Shaanxi *** addition,we also compared the bird sighting coordinates with the species distribution maps from BirdLife ***,species checklists from different sources have considerable discrepancies,even among lists based on expert *** birdwatching data,there are 616 bird species in total,but less than half of the species(294)appear in all checklists,and 17.2%of species are unique to one *** hundred sixty-three species lack birdwatching records,but birdwatching identified 39 species new to the *** hundred thirty-six bird species have sighting locations outside the distribution ranges from BirdLife International,suggesting that updates might be *** data also showed a clear trend of bird species shifting to higher latitudes than their traditional *** being inadequate for generating a regional species checklist on its own,b