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:

Hummer, 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

Seibert 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

Lemmens 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

Tauginienė 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

Rüfenacht 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:

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

Heigl, 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

Dörler, 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

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

Varas 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

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

Fabian, 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

Prinsloo, 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

Etter, 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.

Barbara 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

Barbara 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.

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

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

Tim 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

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

van 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.

Barbara 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?

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

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 

 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

Hall, 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 Ecology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aec.13062

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

Heigl, 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.

Heigl, 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.

Michal 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

Peer 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

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

Shilling 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.

Heigl, 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

Stark, 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

Stark, 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:

Sandén, 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

Eggleton, 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 Preprints. https://www.authorea.com/doi/full/10.22541/au.160502884.44867586

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 Evolution, 9, p.432. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.703794/full

SemantiX

Hannah 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

Martin 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

Martin 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

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

Nestcams

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)

Maria 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

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

Horizon 2020 Projects:

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.)

Evaluation 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

Private 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

Effectiveness 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

Genetic 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

Popillia 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

Antifeedant 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

Tracing 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

From 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

Effect 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:

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.

 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?