Last week, Carolina Corrales (LIB) presented the BGE paper “The Role of Community Science in DNA-Based Biodiversity Monitoring” at our community meeting.
The paper investigates how collaborations between the general public and scientists are shaped. The paper presents an overview of the complementarity between community science and DNA-based biomonitoring through examples from ongoing projects. The involvement of hobby experts is particularly crucial for building up the necessary species reference databases that enable DNA-based monitoring. Based on this overview, the authors identify some key points related to learning opportunities and participant recognition to maximise the success, impact and benefit of community participants in DNA-based monitoring.
The paper was published on 12 September 2025 on Molecular Ecology with DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.70100.
The work was supported by the Horizon Europe Framework Programme through the Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) project.
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