ERIC Number: EJ1336690
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Publication Date: 2022-Apr
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Citizen Taxonomy in Social Media: The Use of Facebook for Mapping Species Distribution of Myxomycetes
dela Cruz, Thomas Edison E.; Olayta, Carlo Oliver M.
American Biology Teacher, v84 n4 p189-194 Apr 2022
Citizen science is a research collaboration between scientists and volunteers who provide data for education, conservation, and environmental protection. Volunteers, often the locals in the area, provide data on species occurrence while researchers perform distribution mapping or other data analysis. Social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr can be used as platforms for the public to share their photos of species and for scientists to aid in identification. In this article, we show how social media groups can be used to generate data on species distribution of myxomycetes.
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Scientific Research, Science Projects, Taxonomy, Social Media, Data Collection, Volunteers, Biological Sciences, Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, College Science, Photography
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