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Citizen science offers new possibilities to address existing biodiversity knowledge shortfalls

Abstract

Biodiversity conservation remains a key challenge in the 21st century. Our current knowledge of biodiversity is limited by several knowledge shortfalls which hamper our capacity to develop success biodiversity conservation efforts. However, citizen science contributions offer several opportunities to address these outstanding knowledge shortfalls. In this talk I will outline the various biodiversity knowledge shortfalls and will offer insights on how citizen science contributions often contain information that can be used to address the various shortfalls.