Papers & Publications

On this page, you can find publications from projects running on the SPOTTERON platform. They are all based on data collected through SPOTTERON as a tool for data collection.

By fostering data quality through design and community interaction, SPOTTERON provides a reliable platform for running Citizen Science projects. A flexible system with licences supporting both data ownership or open data is in place. At the same time, intellectual property rights of media elements, submitted by Citizen Scientists, are governed by CC:0 Creative Commons to provide data consistency in the research project while complying with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Research papers and publications

All publications listed are based on Citizen Science data, collected on the SPOTTERON platform:

Authorship:

Documents Bookmarks 23Hummer, P., Niedermeyer, C. (2018). Austrian Citizen Science Conference 2018: Don’t walk alone: Synergy effects for citizen science created through adaptive platform design in SPOTTERON, Frontiers, pp.66-69, ISBN: 978-2-88945-587-4

Documents Bookmarks 23Seibert J, Strobl B, Etter S, Hummer P and van Meerveld HJ (2019) Virtual Staff Gauges for Crowd-Based Stream Level Observations. Front. Earth Sci. 7:70. doi: 10.3389/feart.2019.00070

Documents Bookmarks 23Lemmens R., Antoniou V., Hummer P., Potsiou C. (2021); Citizen Science in the Digital World of Apps. In: Vohland K. et al. (eds) The Science of Citizen Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58278-4_23

Documents Bookmarks 23Tauginienė L., Hummer P., Albert A., Cigarini A., Vohland K. (2021); Ethical Challenges and Dynamic Informed Consent. In: Vohland K. et al. (eds) The Science of Citizen Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58278-4_20

Documents Bookmarks 23Rüfenacht S. et al. (2021) Communication and Dissemination in Citizen Science. In: Vohland K. et al. (eds) The Science of Citizen Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58278-4_24

 

Contributions:

Documents Bookmarks 23

Defining principles for mobile apps and platforms development in citizen science: Research Ideas and Outcomes: http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ received: 2018-01-03 published: 2018-01-04. https://nhm.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10141/622315/Defining+principles+for+mobile+apps+and+platformsdevelopment+in+citizen+science.pdf?sequence=1

Documents Bookmarks 23Heigl, F., Dörler, D., Walter, T., & Morawetz, L. (2019, December 18). Citizen Science Network Austria Working Group on Open Biodiversity Databases in Citizen Science Projects: Catalogue of Questions for Project Managers. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/b7eyx

 

Mentions

Documents Bookmarks 23Dörler, D. und Heigl, F. (2019) „Citizen Science in Österreich“, Mitteilungen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare, 72(2), S. 317–327. doi: 10.31263/voebm.v72i2.2836. https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/voebm/article/view/2836

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Woods, M., Coulson, S., Ajates, R., Amditis, A., Cobley, A., Domian, D., Hager, G., Ferri, M., Fraisl, D., Fritz, S. and Gold, M., 2020. Citizen Science Projects (MOOC) 4.5: Opening access to data. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/publications/citizen-science-projects-mooc-45-opening-access-to-data

Documents Bookmarks 23Varas Paneque, N., 2021. Analysis and comparison of local, national and European citizen science platforms. https://repositori.upf.edu/bitstream/handle/10230/48886/TFG_Nuria_Varas.pdf

Documents Bookmarks 23Spasiano, A., Citizen science and socio-technical perspective: reflection on a possible integration. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3016/paper10.pdf

Documents Bookmarks 23Fabian, C.M., Unterfrauner, E., ZSI, J.T., García, B. and Diaz-Merced, W., 2020. D2. 1 Citizen Engagement Plan. https://reinforceeu.eu/sites/default/files/2020-08/REINFORCE_D2.1%20Citizen%20Engagement%20Plan.pdf

Documents Bookmarks 23Prinsloo, A., & Krasnikov, T. Researchers and citizens on par: Challenges and platform-based solutions to transitioning to co-created citizen science. https://research-api.cbs.dk/ws/portalfiles/portal/60699274/785276_Prinsloo_Krasnikov_Researchers_and_citizens_on_par_0916.pdf

 

Projects and Publications:

CrowdWater:

University of Zurich, Switzerland

Documents Bookmarks 23Etter, S., Strobl, B., Seibert, J., and van Meerveld, H. J. I.: Value of uncertain streamflow observations for hydrological modelling, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 5243-5257, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-5243-2018, 2018.

Documents Bookmarks 23Barbara Strobl, Simon Etter, Ilja van Meerveld; Jan Seibert (2019)Accuracy of crowdsourced streamflow and stream level class estimates, Hydrological Sciences Journal, 65:5, 823-841

Documents Bookmarks 23Barbara Strobl, Simon Etter, Ilja van Meerveld, Jan Seibert (2019): The CrowdWater game: A playful way to improve the accuracy of crowdsourced water level class data.

Documents Bookmarks 23Barbara Strobl, Simon Etter, Ilja van Meerveld,Jan Seibert (2019):Accuracy of crowdsourced streamflow and stream level class estimates

Documents Bookmarks 23Barbara Strobl, Simon Etter, H.J. Ilja von Meerveld, Jan Seibert (2020); Training citizen scientists through an online game developed for data quality control

Documents Bookmarks 23Tim van Emmerik, Jan Seibert, Barbara Strobl, Simon Etter, Tijmen den Oudendammer, Martine Rutten, Mohd Shahrizal bin Ab Razak and Ilja van Meerveld (2020); Crowd-Based Observations of Riverine Macroplastic Pollution

Documents Bookmarks 23Simon Etter, Barbara Strobl, Ilja von Meerveld and Jan Seibert (2020); Quality and timing of crowd‐based water level class observations

Documents Bookmarks 23van Emmerik T, Seibert J, Strobl B, Etter S, den Oudendammer T, Rutten M, bin Ab Razak MS and van Meerveld I (2020); Crowd-Based Observations of Riverine Macroplastic Pollution.

Documents Bookmarks 23Barbara Strobl, Simon Etter, Ilja van Meerveld, Jan Seibert, Rick Assendelft, Philipp Hummer; Wasserdaten sammeln mit dem Smartphone – Wie können Menschen messen, was hydrologische Modelle brauchen?

Documents Bookmarks 23Barbara Strobl, Simon Etter, Ilja van Meerveld, Jan Seibert, Philipp Hummer; Virtual Staff Gauges for Crowd-Based Stream Level Observations

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H. J. Ilja Meerveld, Eric Sauquet, Francesc Gallart, Catherine Sefton, Jan Seibert, et al.. Aqua temporaria incognita. Hydrological Processes, Wiley, 2020, 34 (26), pp.5704-5711. ff10.1002/hyp.13979ff. ffhal-03138300f: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03138300/file/Aqua%20Temporaria%20Incognita_v4_20201103_clean.pdf

H. J. Ilja Meerveld, Jan Seibert, Sara Blanco Ramírez; Citizen science approaches for water quality measurements

 

Pilzfinder 

Documents Bookmarks 23 Diversity and distribution of fungi in Austria. Let us search for fungi, take pictures, document them and thereby contribute to biodiversity research: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Irmgard-Krisai-Greilhuber/publication/350827648_Pilzfinderat_Diversity_and_distribution_of_fungi_in_Austria_Let_us_search_for_fungi_take_pictures_document_them_and_thereby_contribute_to_biodiversity_research/links/6079d0e9881fa114b409f6b7/Pilzfinderat-Diversity-and-distribution-of-fungi-in-Austria-Let-us-search-for-fungi-take-pictures-document-them-and-thereby-contribute-to-biodiversity-research.pdf

 

Big City Birds / Brushturkeys

Documents Bookmarks 23Hall, M.J., Martin, J.M., Burns, A.L. and Hochuli, D.F., 2021. Ecological insights into a charismatic bird using different citizen science approaches. Austral Ecologyhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aec.13062

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Barbara C. Klump, John M. Martin, Sonja Wild, Jana K. Hörsch, Richard E. Major, Lucy M. Aplin: Innovation and geographic spread of a complex foraging culture in an urban parrot.

 

Roadkill:

University of Natural Ressources and Life Sciences, Austria

Documents Bookmarks 23Heigl, F., Stretz, C. R., Steiner, W., Suppan, F., Bauer, T., Laaha, G., Zaller, J. G. (2016). Comparing Road-Kill Datasets from Hunters and Citizen Scientists in a Landscape Context. Remote Sensing, 8(10), 832.

Documents Bookmarks 23Heigl, F., Horvath, K., Laaha, G., & Zaller, J. G. (2017); Amphibian and reptile road-kills on tertiary roads in relation to landscape structure: using a citizen science approach with open-access land cover data. BMC ecology, 17(1), 24.

Documents Bookmarks 23Michal Bíla, Florian Heigl, ZbyněkJanoškac, DiemerVercayie, Sarah E.Perkins (2020): Benefits and challenges of collaborating with volunteers: Examples from National Wildlife Roadkill Reporting Systems in Europe

PeDocuments Bookmarks 23er M, Dörler D, Zaller JG, Scheifinger H, Schweiger S, Laaha G, et al. Predicting spring migration of two European amphibian species with plant phenology using citizen science data. Sci Rep. 2021;11:21611

Documents Bookmarks 23Dörler D, Heigl F. A decrease in reports on road-killed animals based on citizen science during COVID-19 lockdown. PeerJ. 2021;9:e12464.

Documents Bookmarks 23Shilling F, Collinson W, Bil M, Vercayie D, Heigl F, Perkins SE, et al. Designing wildlife-vehicle conflict observation systems to inform ecology and transportation studies. Biological Conservation. 2020;251:108797.

Documents Bookmarks 23Heigl, F., Teufelbauer, N., Resch, S. et al. A dataset of road-killed vertebrates collected via citizen science from 2014–2020

 

Was geht ab?:

University of Natural Ressources and Life Sciences, Austria

Documents Bookmarks 23Stark, J; Uhlmann, T; Fanninger, C; Schützhofer, B; Berger, WJ; Kirchner, M.(2018): Seeing the world through the eyes of a child – A smartphone application to visualize children’s perceptions of their transport geographies In: Zvobgo, J; de Vos, K (Eds.), Book of Abstracts: 9th Child in the City World Conference

Documents Bookmarks 23Stark, J; Schützhofer, B; Kirchner, M; Uhlmann, T; Berger, WJ; Soukup, B; Fanninger, C; Krammer-Kritzer, B. (2018): Was geht ab? – Ein Projekt zur interdisziplinären Förderung von aktiver, selbstbestimmter und sicherer Mobilität von SchülerInnen 14. Gemeinsames Symposium der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Verkehrsmedizin e. V. (DGVM) und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Verkehrspsychologie e. V. (DGVP), SEP 28-29, 2018, Saarbrücken, GERMANY

 

Teabag Index:

Documents Bookmarks 23Sandén, T.; Spiegel, H.; Wenng, H.; Schwarz, M.; Sarneel, J.M.;Learning Science during Teatime: Using a Citizen Science Approach to Collect Data on Litter Decomposition in Sweden and Austria

Documents Bookmarks 23Eggleton, P., Griffiths, H., Ashton, L., Law, S., Evans, T.A. and Parr, K., 2020. Not our cup of tea: the Tea Bag Index (Kueskamp et al. 2013) for assessing decomposition is problematic in most environments, due to macrofauna. Authorea Preprintshttps://www.authorea.com/doi/full/10.22541/au.160502884.44867586

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Sandén, T., Wawra, A., Berthold, H., Miloczki, J., Schweinzer, A., Gschmeidler, B., Spiegel, H., Debeljak, M. and Trajanov, A., 2021. TeaTime4Schools: Using Data Mining Techniques to Model Litter Decomposition in Austrian Urban School Soils. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution9, p.432. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.703794/full

 

SemantiX

Documents Bookmarks 23Hannah Augustin; Martin Sudmanns; Helga Weber; Andrea Baraldi; Stefan Wunderle; Christoph Neuhaus; Steffen Reichel; Lucas van der Meer; Philipp Hummer; Dirk Tiede: SemantiX: a cross-sensor semantic EO data cube to open and leverage AVHRR time-series and essential climate variables with scientists and the public

Documents Bookmarks 23Martin Sudmanns, Hannah Augustin, Lucas van der Meer, Christian Werner, Andrea Baraldi, Dirk Tiede:
PDF Icon One GUI to Rule Them All: Accessing Multiple Semantic EO Data Cubes in One Graphical User Interface

Documents Bookmarks 23Martin Sudmanns, Hannah Augustin, Brian Killough, Gregory Giuliani, Dirk Tiede, Alex Leith, Fang Yuan, Adam Lewis: Think global, cube local: an Earth Observation Data Cube’s contribution to the Digital Earth vision

Documents Bookmarks 23van der Meer, L., Sudmanns, M., Augustin, H., Baraldi, A., and Tiede, D.: Semantic Querying in Earth Observation Data Cubes

 

Nestcams

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Rittenschobera, J., Puehringer-Sturmayra, V. and Frigerioa, D., 2020. The relevance of a digital platform for the citizen science project NestCams. https://pos.sissa.it/393/009/pdf

 

Naturkalender:

Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics (German: Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik, ZAMG)

Documents Bookmarks 23Maria Peer, Daniel Dörler, Johann G. Zaller, Helfried Scheifinger, Silke Schweiger, Gregor Laaha, Gernot Neuwirth, Thomas Hübner & Florian Heigl: Predicting spring migration of two European amphibian species with plant phenology using citizen science data

 

CoastSnap

Documents Bookmarks 23Mitchell D.Harley, Michael A.Kinsela: CoastSnap: A global citizen science program to monitor changing coastlines.

 

Horizon 2020 Projects:

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Eglė Butkevičienė; Raminta Pučėtaitė; Paulina Budrytė; Jolanta Vaičiūnienė; Reidun Norvoll; Philipp Hummer: D1.1 Internet list of stakeholders

IPM Popillia (Horizon 2020)

Frontiers Research Topic: Focus on Popillia Japonica (This Research Topic has been launched recently and Contributors are going to be published as soon as they become available.)Documents Bookmarks 23

Documents Bookmarks 23Evaluation of Indigenous Entomopathogenic Nematodes as Potential Biocontrol Agents against Popillia japonica (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in Northern Italy
Giulia Torrini, Francesco Paoli, Giuseppe Mazza, Stefania Simoncini, Claudia Benvenuti, Agostino Strangi, Eustachio Tarasco, Gian Paolo Barzanti, Giovanni Bosio, Ilaria Cutino, Pio F. Roversi, Leonardo Marianelli; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11110804

Documents Bookmarks 23Private management costs of Popillia japonica: a study of viticulture in Italy
Franziska B. Straubinger, Terese E. Venus, Emmanuel O. Benjamin and Johannes Sauer; https://doi.org/10.3389/finsc.2023.1176405

Documents Bookmarks 23Effectiveness of field-exposed attract-and-kill devices against the adults of Popillia japonica (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae): a study on duration, form and storage
Francesco Paoli, Immacolata Iovinella, Francesco Barbieri, Chiara Sciandra, Giuseppino Sabbatini Peverieri, Giuseppe Mazza, Giulia Torrini, Gian Paolo Barzanti, Claudia Benvenuti, Agostino Strangi, Giovanni Bosio, Emiliano Mori, Pio Federico Roversi, Leonardo Marianelli; https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.7504

Documents Bookmarks 23Genetic variability of Metarhizium isolates from the Ticino Valley Natural Park (Northern Italy) as a possible microbiological resource for the management of Popillia japonica
Gian Paolo Barzanti, Jürg Enkerli, Claudia Benvenuti, Agostino Strangi, Giuseppe Mazza, Giulia Torrini, Stefania Simoncini, Francesco Paoli, Leonardo Marianelli; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jip.2023.107891

Documents Bookmarks 23Popillia japonica – Italian outbreak management
Paola Gotta; Mariangela Ciampitti; Beniamino Cavagna; Giovanni Bosio; Gianni Gilioli; Alberto Alma; Andrea Battisti; Nicola Mori; Giuseppe Mazza; Giulia Torrini; Francesco Paoli; Giacomo Santoiemma; Anna Simonetto; Federico Lessio; Giorgio Sperandio; Emanuela Giacometto; Alessandro Bianchi; Pio Federico Roversi; Leonardo Marianelli; https://doi.org/10.3389/finsc.2023.1175138

Documents Bookmarks 23Antifeedant and insecticidal effects of alfalfa saponins in the management of the Japanese beetle Popillia japonica
Immacolata Iovinella, Francesco Barbieri, Elisa Biazzi, Chiara Sciandra, Aldo Tava, Giuseppe Mazza, Leonardo Marianelli, Alessandro Cini, Pio Federico Roversi, Giulia Torrini; https://doi.org/10.1111/jen.13153

Documents Bookmarks 23Tracing the dispersal route of the invasive Japanese beetle Popillia japonica
Agostino Strangi, Francesco Paoli, Francesco Nardi, Ken Shimizu, Troy Kimoto, Immacolata Iovinella, Giovanni Bosio, Pio Federico Roversi, Antonio Carapelli & Leonardo Marianelli; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-023-01653-1

Documents Bookmarks 23From lab to field: biological control of the Japanese beetle with entomopathogenic fungi
Tanja Graf, Franziska Scheibler, Pascal A. Niklaus and Giselher Grabenweger; https://doi.org/10.3389/finsc.2023.1138427

Documents Bookmarks 23Effect of Bacillus insecticidal proteins on the Japanese beetle, Popillia japonica (Scarabaeidae)
Fionna Knecht, Yolanda Bel, Dafne Toledo, Giselher Grabenweger and Baltasar Escriche; https://doi.org/10.19080/artoaj.2023.27.556375

 

Other Publications:

Documents Bookmarks 26 Littering in Austrias Nature. Global 2000 Report. (only available in German) 

Global 2000 Report 2020 (only available in German) With the data of the LitterBug project from the Android and iOS apps and the interactive browser map.

Documents Bookmarks 26 Helle Lykke Nielsen, Tove Rosendal, Johan Järlehed, and Christopher Kullenberg: Chapter 15 Investigating Bulletin Boards with Students: What can Citizen Science offer Education and Research in the Linguistic Landscape?

Short News

  • A new paper titled "Citizen Science Approaches for Water Quality Measurements" has been published by the scientists behind CrowdWater. Find it in the papers section!

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  • A new paper from the Horizon 2020 project IPM titled "Genetic variability of Metarhizium isolates from the Ticino Valley Natural Park (Northern Italy) as a possible microbiological resource for the management of Popillia japonica" has been added to our page. Find this and other Citizen Science related publications on the SPOTTERON Papers & Publications section.

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