Citizen science can enhance strategies to detect and manage invasive forest pests and pathogens

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Ecology and Evolution

Joseph M. Hulbert¹  Michelle Cleary²  Helen E. Roy³  Richard A. Hallett⁴ 

[1] Department of Plant Pathology, Puyallup Research and Extension Center, Washington State University, Puyallup, WA, United States;Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden;UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom;USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Durham, NH, United States;

关键词: citizen science;    invasive species;    forest health;    biosecurity;    public engagement;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fevo.2023.1113978

 received in 2022-12-01, accepted in 2023-01-23,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Incorporating a citizen science approach into biological invasion management strategies can enhance biosecurity. Many citizen science projects exist to strengthen the management of forest pest and pathogen invasions within both pre- and post-border scenarios. Besides the value of citizen science initiatives for early detection and monitoring, they also contribute widely to raising awareness, informing decisions about eradication and containment efforts to minimize pest and pathogen spread, and even finding resistant plant material for restoration of landscapes degraded by disease. Overall, many projects actively engage citizens in the different stages of forest pest and pathogen invasions, but it is unclear how they work together across all stages of the entire biological invasion process to enhance biosecurity. Here we provide examples of citizen science projects for each stage of the biological invasion process, discuss options for developing a citizen science program to enhance biosecurity, and suggest approaches for integrating citizen science into biosecurity measures to help safeguard forest resources in the future.

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