Scientific papers dedicated to conservation culturomics

The presented list does not represent an endorsement of the papers or their content

2022

• Akasaka, M., Kubo, T., Soga, M., 2022. How well does online information-seeking behavior indicate public conservation orientation? Taxonomy and personal characteristics matter. Journal for Nature Conservation, 126123.
• Ghermandi, A., Depietri, Y., Sinclair, M., 2022. In the AI of the beholder: A comparative analysis of computer vision-assisted characterizations of human-nature interactions in urban green spaces. Landscape and Urban Planning 217, 104261.
• Schaub, S., 2022. Global relationships between time preference and environmental policy performance. Environmental Science & Policy 128, 102-109.
• Vins, M., Aldecoa, M., Hines, H.N., 2022. Sharing wildlife conservation through 4 billion views on YouTube. Global Ecology and Conservation 33, e01970.

2021

• Arkema, K.K., Fisher, D.M., Wyatt, K., Wood, S.A., Payne, H.J., 2021. Advancing Sustainable Development and Protected Area Management with Social Media-Based Tourism Data. Sustainability 13, 2427.
• Arts, I., Fischer, A., Duckett, D., van der Wal, R., 2021. The Instagrammable outdoors – Investigating the sharing of nature experiences through visual social media. People and Nature.
• Ballejo, F., Plaza, P.I., Lambertucci, S.A., 2021. Framing of visual content shown on popular social media may affect viewers’ attitudes to threatened species. Scientific Reports 11, 13512.
• Carpentier, N., Doudaki, V., Rozsypal Pajerová, A., 2021. Conflicting and entangled human–nature relationships: A discursive-material analysis of the documentary film Kiruna - A Brand New World. People and Nature 3, 1166-1178.
• Cerri, J., Mori, E., Ancillotto, L., Russo, D., Bertolino, S., COVID-19, media coverage of bats and related Web searches: a turning point for bat conservation? Mammal Review.
• Chua, M.A.H., Tan, A., Carrasco, L.R., 2021. Species awareness days: Do people care or are we preaching to the choir? Biological Conservation 255, 109002.
• Correia, R.A., Ladle, R., Roll, U., 2021. Special Section: Advancing Conservation Culturomics- Introduction. Conservation Biology.
• Correia, R.A., Ladle, R., Jarić, I., Malhado, A.C.M., Mittermeier, J.C., Roll, U., Soriano-Redondo, A., Veríssimo, D., Fink, C., Hausmann, A., Guedes-Santos, J., Vardi, R., Di Minin, E., 2021. Digital data sources and methods for conservation culturomics. Conservation Biology.
• Davies, A., Hinsley, A., Nuno, A., Martin, R.O., Identifying opportunities for expert-mediated triangulation in monitoring wildlife trade on social media. Conservation Biology.
• Depietri, Y., Ghermandi, A., Campisi-Pinto, S., Orenstein, D.E., 2021. Public participation GIS versus geolocated social media data to assess urban cultural ecosystem services: Instances of complementarity. Ecosystem Services 50, 101277.
• Di Minin, E., Fink, C., Hausmann, A., Kremer, J., Kulkarni, R., 2021. How to address data privacy concerns when using social media data in conservation science. Conservation Biology.
• Di Minin, E., Correia, R.A., Toivonen, T., 2021. Conservation geography. Trends in Ecology & Evolution.
• Durso, A.M., et al., 2021. Citizen science and online data: Opportunities and challenges for snake ecology and action against snakebite. Toxicon: X, 100071.
• Editorial, 2021. The powers and perils of using digital data to understand human behaviour. Nature 595, 149-150.
• Edwards, T., Jones, C.B., Perkins, S.E., Corcoran, P., 2021. Passive citizen science: The role of social media in wildlife observations. PLoS ONE 16, e0255416.
• Fink, C., Toivonen, T., Correia, R.A., Di Minin, E., 2021. Mapping the online songbird trade in Indonesia. Applied Geography 134, 102505.
• Fisher, J.C., Yoh, N., Kubo, T., Rundle, D., 2021. Could Nintendo’s Animal Crossing be a tool for conservation messaging? People and Nature 3, 1218-1228.
• Freund, C.A., Heaning, E.G., Mulrain, I.R., McCann, J.B., DiGiorgio, A.L., 2021. Building better conservation media for primates and people: A case study of orangutan rescue and rehabilitation YouTube videos. People and Nature.
• Fukano, Y., Soga, M., Fukuda, M., Takahashi, Y., Koyama, M., Arakawa, Y., Miyano, N., Akiba, Y., Horiguchi, M., 2021. Debut of an endangered bird in zoos raises public interest, awareness and conservation knowledge of the species. Animal Conservation.
• Grzyb, T., Kulczyk, S., Derek, M., Woźniak, E., 2021. Using social media to assess recreation across urban green spaces in times of abrupt change. Ecosystem Services 49, 101297.
• Guedes-Santos, J., Correia, R.A., Jepson, P., Ladle, R.J., 2021. Evaluating Public Interest in Protected Areas using Wikipedia Page Views. Journal for Nature Conservation, 126040.
• Guedes-Santos, J., Aleixo Correia, R., Mendes Malhado, A.C., Ladle, R.J., 2021. A digital approach to quantifying political vulnerability of protected areas. Environmental Science & Policy 124, 616-626.
• Hautea, S., Parks, P., Takahashi, B., Zeng, J., 2021. Showing They Care (Or Don’t): Affective Publics and Ambivalent Climate Activism on TikTok. Social Media + Society 7, 20563051211012344
  Jarić, I., Bellard, C., Correia, R.A., Courchamp, F., Douda, K., Essl, F., Jeschke, J.M., Kalinkat, G., Kalous, L., Lennox, R.J., Novoa, A., Proulx, R., Pyšek, P., Soriano–Redondo, A., Souza, A.T., Vardi, R., Veríssimo, D., Roll, U., 2021. Invasion Culturomics and iEcology. Conservation Biology.
• Jarratt, D., 2021. An exploration of webcam-travel: Connecting to place and nature through webcams during the COVID-19 lockdown of 2020. Tourism and Hospitality Research 21, 156-168.
• Johnson, T.F., Kent, H., Hill, B.M., Dunn, G., Dommett, L., Penwill, N., Francis, T., González-Suárez, M., 2021. classecol: Classifiers to understand public opinions of nature. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 12, 1329-1334.
• Kotani, A., Shin, N., Tei, S., Makarov, A., Gavrilyeva, T., 2021. Seasonality in Human Interest in Berry Plants Detection by Google Trends. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 4.
• Kovalenko, K.E., Pelicice, F.M., Kats, L.B., Kotta, J., Thomaz, S.M., 2021. Aquatic invasive species: introduction to the Special Issue and dynamics of public interest. Hydrobiologia 848, 1939-1953.
• Kroetz, A.M., Brame, A.B., Bernanke, M., McDavitt, M.T., Wiley, T.R., 2021. Tracking public interest and perceptions about smalltooth sawfish conservation in the USA using Instagram. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.
• Kulkarni, R., Di Minin, E., Automated retrieval of information on threatened species from online sources using machine learning. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
• Kupfer, J.A., Li, Z., Ning, H., Huang, X., 2021. Using Mobile Device Data to Track the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Spatiotemporal Patterns of National Park Visitation. Sustainability 13, 9366.
• Ladle, R.J., Souza, C.N., Correia, R.A., 2021. Conservation culturomics: Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Biological Conservation 260, 109255.
• Lazer, D., Hargittai, E., Freelon, D., Gonzalez-Bailon, S., Munger, K., Ognyanova, K., Radford, J., 2021. Meaningful measures of human society in the twenty-first century. Nature 595, 189-196.
• Lenda, M., Skórka, P., Kuszewska, K., Moroń, D., Bełcik, M., Baczek Kwinta, R., Janowiak, F., Duncan, D.H., Vesk, P.A., Possingham, H.P., Knops, J.M.H., 2021. Misinformation, internet honey trading and beekeepers drive a plant invasion. Ecology Letters 24, 165-169.
• Li, J., Hu, Q., 2021. Using culturomics and social media data to characterize wildlife consumption. Conservation Biology.
  Magalhães, A.L.B., Azevedo-Santos, V.M., Pelicice, F.M., 2021. Caught in the act: Youtube™ reveals invisible fish invasion pathways in Brazil. Journal of Applied Ichthyology.
• Mangachena, J.R., Pickering, C.M., 2021. Why are some animals popular with wildlife tourists: insights from South Africa. Journal of Ecotourism, 1-17.
• Mashhadi, A., Winder, S.G., Lia, E.H., Wood, S.A., 2021. No Walk in the Park: The Viability and Fairness of Social Media Analysis for Parks and Recreational Policy Making. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 15, 409-420.
• Millard, J.W., Gregory, R.D., Jones, K.E., Freeman, R., 2021. The species awareness index as a conservation culturomics metric for public biodiversity awareness. Conservation Biology.
• Mittermeier, J.C., Correia, R., Grenyer, R., Toivonen, T., Roll, U., Using Wikipedia to measure public interest in biodiversity and conservation. Conservation Biology.
• Mittermeier, J.C., Roll, U., Matthews, T.J., Correia, R., Grenyer, R., Birds that are more commonly encountered in the wild attract higher public interest online. Conservation Science and Practice, e340.
• Munzi, S., Giovanetti, M., 2021. Wanted: virtual or live! How lichens are becoming part of mass internet culture. Symbiosis.
• Papafitsoros, K., Panagopoulou, A., Schofield, G., Social media reveals consistently disproportionate tourism pressure on a threatened marine vertebrate. Animal Conservation.
• Park, W.-B., Do, Y., 2021. Assessment of Public Awareness on Invasive Alien Species of Freshwater Ecosystem Using Conservation Culturomics. Journal of Wetlands Research 23, 364-371.
• Ranteallo, I.C., Palinggi, S., Alam, M., Kolopaking, L.M., Lubis, D.P., Zuhud, E.A.M., Andilolo, I.R., Nasution, A.H., Arifin, M.Z., 2021. Performing Toraja rice ritual, communicating biodiversity on YouTube: A study of conservation on rice landrace. ETNOSIA : Jurnal Etnografi Indonesia 6, 143 – 169.
• Roll, U., Jarić, I., Jepson, P., da Costa-Pinto, A.L., Pinheiro, B.R., Correia, R.A., Malhado, A.C., Ladle, R.J., 2021. COVID-19 lockdowns increase public interest in urban nature. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 19, 320-322.
• Santos Vieira, F.A., Vinhas Santos, D.T., Bragagnolo, C., Campos-Silva, J.V., Henriques Correia, R.A., Jepson, P., Mendes Malhado, A.C., Ladle, R.J., 2021. Social media data reveals multiple cultural services along the 8.500 kilometers of Brazilian coastline. Ocean & Coastal Management 214, 105918.
• Sbragaglia, V., Coco, S., Correia, R.A., Coll, M., Arlinghaus, R., 2021. Analyzing publicly available videos about recreational fishing reveals key ecological and social insights: A case study about groupers in the Mediterranean Sea. Science of the Total Environment 765, 142672.
• Sbragaglia, V., Correia, R.A., Di Minin, E., 2021. Responsible use of social media data is needed: A reply to Maya-Jariego et al. Plenty of black money: Netnography of illegal recreational underwater fishing in southern Spain. Marine Policy 134, 104780.
• Schirpke, U., Tasser, E., Ebner, M., Tappeiner, U., 2021. What can geotagged photographs tell us about cultural ecosystem services of lakes? Ecosystem Services 51, 101354.
• Schuetz, J.G., Johnston, A., 2021. Tracking the cultural niches of North American birds through time. People and Nature.
• Shetty, S.J., Ramesh, V., 2021 pyResearchInsights—An open-source Python package for scientific text analysis. Ecology and Evolution.
• Shreedhar, G., 2021. Evaluating the impact of storytelling in Facebook advertisements on wildlife conservation engagement: Lessons and challenges. Conservation Science and Practice, e534.
• Silk, M., Correia, R., Veríssimo, D., Verma, A., Crowley, S.L., 2021. The implications of digital visual media for human–nature relationships. People and Nature 3, 1130-1137.
• Souza, C.N., Rodrigues, A.C., Correia, R., Normande, I.C., de Moura Costa, H.C., Guedes-Santos, J., Malhado, A.C.M., Carvalho, A.R., Ladle, R.J., 2021. No visit, no interest: How COVID-19 has affected public interest in world's national parks. Biological Conservation, 109015.
• Speak, A., Usher, M., Solly, H., Zerbe, S., 2021. #urbanforest: cultural ecosystem services of urban trees through the lens of Instagram. Journal of Place Management and Development 14, 497-513.
• Stringham, O.C., Toomes, A., Kanishka, A.M., Mitchell, L., Heinrich, S., Ross, J.V., Cassey, P., 2021. A guide to using the Internet to monitor and quantify the wildlife trade. Conservation Biology.
• Stringham, O.C., Moncayo, S., Hill, K.G.W., Toomes, A., Mitchell, L., Ross, J.V., Cassey, P., 2021. Text classification to streamline online wildlife trade analyses. PLoS ONE 16, e0254007.
• Sung, Y.-H., Lee, W.-H., Leung, F.K.-W., Fong, J.J., 2021. Prevalence of illegal turtle trade on social media and implications for wildlife trade monitoring. Biological Conservation 261, 109245.
• Suse, S., Mashhadi, A., Wood, S.A., 2021. Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Park Visitation Measured by Social Media, In Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. pp. 179–182. Association for Computing Machinery, Virtual Event, USA.
• Teles da Mota, V., Pickering, C., 2021. Assessing the popularity of urban beaches using metadata from social media images as a rapid tool for coastal management. Ocean & Coastal Management 203, 10551
• Thömmes, K., Hayn-Leichsenring, G., 2021. What Instagram Can Teach Us About Bird Photography: The Most Photogenic Bird and Color Preferences. i-Perception 12, 20416695211003585.
• Thompson, R.M., Hall, J., Morrison, C., Palmer, N.R., Roberts, D.L., Ethics and governance for internet-based conservation science research. Conservation Biology.
• Troumbis, A.Y., 2021. The physics of conservation culturomics: the mass-energy-information equivalence principle to address misrepresented controversies. Heliyon 7, e06333.
• Troumbis, A.Y., 2021. The circularity entrapment of the ‘Global Human Confinement Experiment’ in conservation culturomics. Biological Conservation 260, 109244.
• Troumbis, A.Y., 2021. Imbalances in attitudes of European citizens towards biodiversity: Did the communication of the European Biodiversity Strategy work? Journal for Nature Conservation, 126041.
• Troumbis, A.Y., Vasios, G.K., 2021. Ternary plots of public interest in cultural human-nature interactions: Google Trends-based culturomics of the Mediterranean olive triptych. Journal of Rural Studies 81, 1-8.
• Troumbis, A.Y., Iosifidis, S., Kalloniatis, C., 2021. Uncovering Patterns of Public Perceptions Towards Biodiversity Crime Using Conservation Culturomics. Research Square.
• Väisänen, T., Heikinheimo, V., Hiippala, T., Toivonen, T., 2021. Exploring human–nature interactions in national parks with social media photographs and computer vision. Conservation Biology.
• Vardi, R., Mittermeier, J.C., Roll, U., 2021. Combining culturomic sources to uncover trends in popularity and seasonal interest in plants. Conservation Biology.
• Venter, Z.S., Barton, D.N., Gundersen, V., Figari, H., Nowell, M.S., 2021. Back to nature: Norwegians sustain increased recreational use of urban green space months after the COVID-19 outbreak. Landscape and Urban Planning 214, 104175.
• Vitale, G., Dedeu, A.L., Pujol, M., Sbragaglia, V., 2021. Characterizing the Profile of Recreational Fishers Who Share Their Catches on Social Media. Frontiers in Marine Science 8.
• Wang, Z., Zeng, J., Meng, W., Lohman, D.J., Pierce, N.E., 2021. Out of sight, out of mind: public and research interest in insects is negatively correlated with their conservation status. Insect Conservation and Diversity.
• Wartmann, F.M., Koblet, O., Purves, R.S., 2021. Assessing experienced tranquillity through natural language processing and landscape ecology measures. Landscape Ecology.
• Wilkins, E.J., Howe, P.D., Smith, J.W., 2021. Social media reveal ecoregional variation in how weather influences visitor behavior in U.S. National Park Service units. Scientific Reports 11, 2403.
• Wilkins, E.J., Wood, S.A., Smith, J.W., 2021. Uses and Limitations of Social Media to Inform Visitor Use Management in Parks and Protected Areas: A Systematic Review. Environmental Management 67, 120-132.
• Zhang, H., van Berkel, D., Howe, P.D., Miller, Z.D., Smith, J.W., 2021. Using social media to measure and map visitation to public lands in Utah. Applied Geography 128, 102389.
• Zieger, M., Springer, S., Can Google Trends data confirm the need for charismatic species to generate interest in conservation? Pacific Conservation Biology.

2020

• Acerbi A, Kerhoas D, Webber AD, McCabe G, Mittermeier RA, Schwitzer C. 2020. The impact of the “World's 25 Most Endangered Primates” list on scientific publications and media. Journal for Nature Conservation 54:125794.
• Aguilera-Alcalá, N., Morales-Reyes, Z., Martín-López, B., Moleón, M., Sánchez-Zapata, J.A., 2020. Role of scavengers in providing non-material contributions to people. Ecological Indicators 117, 106643.
• Barrios-O'Neill, D., Focus and social contagion of environmental organization advocacy on Twitter. Conservation Biology doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13564
• Berti, E., Monsarrat, S., Munk, M., Jarvie, S., Svenning, J.-C., 2020. Body size is a good proxy for vertebrate charisma. Biological Conservation 251, 108790.
• Breckheimer IK, Theobald EJ, Cristea NC, Wilson AK, Lundquist JD, Rochefort RM, HilleRisLambers J. 2020. Crowd-sourced data reveal social–ecological mismatches in phenology driven by climate. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 18:76-82.
• Cloutier, T.L., Rasmussen, G.S.A., Giordano, A.J., Kaplin, B.A., Willey, L., 2020. Digital conservation: using social media to investigate the scope of African painted dog den disturbance by humans. Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 1-11.
• Conti, E., Heldt Cassel, S., 2020. Liminality in nature-based tourism experiences as mediated through social media. Tourism Geographies 22, 413-432.
• da Mota, V.T., Pickering, C., 2020. Using social media to assess nature-based tourism: Current research and future trends. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism 30, 100295.
• Doughty, H., Wright, J., Veríssimo, D., Lee, J.S.H., Oliver, K., Milner-Gulland, E.J., 2020. Strategic advertising of online news articles as an intervention to influence wildlife product consumers. Conservation Science and Practice 2, e272.
• Fink C, Hausmann A, Di Minin E. 2020. Online sentiment towards iconic species. Biological Conservation 241:108289.
• Fukano Y, Tanaka Y, Soga M. 2020. Zoos and animated animals increase public interest in and support for threatened animals. Science of The Total Environment 704:135352.
• Ghermandi A, Camacho-Valdez V, Trejo-Espinosa H. 2020. Social media-based analysis of cultural ecosystem services and heritage tourism in a coastal region of Mexico. Tourism Management 77:104002.
• Ghermandi, A., Sinclair, M., Fichtman, E., Gish, M., 2020. Novel insights on intensity and typology of direct human-nature interactions in protected areas through passive crowdsourcing. Global Environmental Change 65, 102189.
• Ghimire, P., Thakuri, R., Basnet, A., Pandey, N., Bist, B.S., Sharma, B., Bhusal, K.P., 2020. Spatial-temporal analysis of vulture related content in social media. Bird Conservation Nepal 9, 8-12.
• Hausmann, A., Toivonen, T., Fink, C., Heikinheimo, V., Kulkarni, R., Tenkanen, H., Di Minin, E. 2020. Understanding sentiment of national park visitors from social media data. People and Nature DOI:10.1002/pan3.10130.
• Heikinheimo, V., Tenkanen, H., Bergroth, C., Järv, O., Hiippala, T., Toivonen, T., 2020. Understanding the use of urban green spaces from user-generated geographic information. Landscape and Urban Planning 201, 103845.
• Heinrich, S., Toomes, A., Gomez, L., 2020. Valuable stones: The trade in porcupine bezoars. Global Ecology and Conservation 24, e01204.
• Jarić, I., Bellard, C., Courchamp, F., Kalinkat, G., Meinard, Y., Roberts, D.L., Correia, R.A., 2020. Societal attention toward extinction threats: a comparison between climate change and biological invasions. Scientific Reports 10, 11085.
• Jarić, I., Roll, U., Arlinghaus, R., Belmaker, J., Chen, Y., China, V., Douda, K., Essl, F., Jähnig, S.C., Jeschke, J.M., Kalinkat, G., Kalous, L., Ladle, R., Lennox, R.J., Rosa, R., Sbragaglia, V., Sherren, K., Šmejkal, M., Soriano-Redondo, A., Souza, A.T., Wolter, C., Correia, R.A., 2020. Expanding conservation culturomics and iEcology from terrestrial to aquatic realms. Plos Biology 18, e3000935.
• Lamba, A., Cassey, P., Segaran, R.R., Koh, L.P., 2019. Deep learning for environmental conservation. Current Biology 29, R977-R982.
• Lenda M, Skórka P, Mazur B, Sutherland W, Tryjanowski P, Moroń D, Meijaard E, Possingham HP, Wilson KA. Effects of amusing memes on concern for unappealing species. Conservation Biology doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13523.
• Mammola, S., Riccardi, N., Prié, V., Correia, R., Cardoso, P., Lopes-Lima, M., Sousa, R., 2020. Towards a taxonomically unbiased European Union biodiversity strategy for 2030. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287, 20202166.
• Martinez, B., Reaser, J.K., Dehgan, A., Zamft, B., Baisch, D., McCormick, C., Giordano, A.J., Aicher, R., Selbe, S., 2020. Technology innovation: advancing capacities for the early detection of and rapid response to invasive species. Biological Invasions 22, 75-100.
• Mashhadi, A., Winder, S.G., Lia, E.H., Wood, S.A., 2020. Quantifying Biases in Social Media Analysis of Recreation in Urban Parks, In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops). pp. 1-7.
• McDonough MacKenzie, C., Chang, T., Nocco, M.A., Barak, R.S., Bletz, M.C., Kuebbing, S.E., Dombeck, M., Recurrent neural network reveals overwhelming sentiment against 2017 review of US monuments from humans and bots. Conservation Letters, e12747.
• Otsuka R, Yamakoshi G. 2020. Analyzing the popularity of YouTube videos that violate mountain gorilla tourism regulations. PLoS One 15:e0232085.
• Pickering, C.M., Norman, P., 2020. Assessing discourses about controversial environmental management issues on social media: Tweeting about wild horses in a national park. Journal of Environmental Management 275, 111244.
• Pickering, C., Walden-Schreiner, C., Barros, A., Rossi, S.D., 2020. Using social media images and text to examine how tourists view and value the highest mountain in Australia. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism 29, 100252.
• Runge, C.A., Hausner, V.H., Daigle, R.M., Monz, C.A., 2020. Pan-Arctic analysis of cultural ecosystem services using social media and automated content analysis. Environmental Research Communications 2, 075001.
• Sánchez-Mercado, A., Cardozo-Urdaneta, A., Moran, L., Ovalle, L., Arvelo, M.Á., Morales-Campos, J., Coyle, B., Braun, M.J., Rodríguez-Clark, K.M., 2020. Social network analysis reveals specialized trade in an Endangered songbird. Animal Conservation 23, 132-144.
• Sbragaglia, V., Correia, R.A., Coco, S., Arlinghaus, R., 2019. Data mining on YouTube reveals fisher group-specific harvesting patterns and social engagement in recreational anglers and spearfishers. ICES Journal of Marine Science 77, 2234-2244.
• Shasha ZT, Geng Y, Sun H-p, Musakwa W, Sun L. 2020. Past, current, and future perspectives on eco-tourism: a bibliometric review between 2001 and 2018. Environmental Science and Pollution Research.
• Sinclair, M., Mayer, M., Woltering, M., Ghermandi, A., 2020. Using social media to estimate visitor provenance and patterns of recreation in Germany's national parks. Journal of Environmental Management 263, 110418.
• Taklis, C., Giovos, I., Karamanlidis, A.A., 2020. Social media: a valuable tool to inform shark conservation in Greece. Mediterranean Marine Science 21, 493-498.
• Troumbis, A.Y., Iosifidis, S., 2020. A decade of Google Trends-based Conservation culturomics research: A critical evaluation of an evolving epistemology. Biological Conservation 248, 108647.
• Vaz AS, Moreno-Llorca RA, Gonçalves JF, Vicente JR, Méndez PF, Revilla E, Santamaria L, Bonet-García FJ, Honrado JP, Alcaraz-Segura D. Digital conservation in biosphere reserves: Earth observations, social media, and nature's cultural contributions to people. Conservation Letters:e12704.
• Venter, Z.S., Barton, D.N., Gundersen, V., Figari, H., Nowell, M., 2020. Urban nature in a time of crisis: recreational use of green space increases during the COVID-19 outbreak in Oslo, Norway. Environmental Research Letters 15, 104075.
• Wood, S.A., Winder, S.G., Lia, E.H., White, E.M., Crowley, C.S.L., Milnor, A.A., 2020. Next-generation visitation models using social media to estimate recreation on public lands. Scientific Reports 10, 15419.
• Zhang, H., Huang, R., Zhang, Y., Buhalis, D., 2020. Cultural ecosystem services evaluation using geolocated social media data: a review. Tourism Geographies, 1-23.

2019

• Barros, C., Moya-Gómez, B., García-Palomares, J.C., 2019. Identifying Temporal Patterns of Visitors to National Parks through Geotagged Photographs. Sustainability 11, 6983.
• Becken, S., Connolly, R.M., Chen, J., Stantic, B., 2019. A hybrid is born: Integrating collective sensing, citizen science and professional monitoring of the environment. Ecological Informatics 52, 35-45.
• Calcagni, F., Amorim Maia, A.T., Connolly, J.J.T., Langemeyer, J., 2019. Digital co-construction of relational values: understanding the role of social media for sustainability. Sustainability science 14, 1309-1321.
• Chen, Y., Parkins, J.R., Sherren, K., 2019. Leveraging Social Media to Understand Younger People’s Perceptions and Use of Hydroelectric Energy Landscapes. Society & Natural Resources 32, 1114-1122.
• Clark, M., Wilkins, E.J., Dagan, D.T., Powell, R., Sharp, R.L., Hillis, V., 2019. Bringing forecasting into the future: Using Google to predict visitation in U.S. national parks. Journal of Environmental Management 243, 88-94.
• Cooper, M. W., E. Di Minin, A. Hausmann, S. Qin, A. J. Schwartz, and R. A. Correia. 2019. Developing a global indicator for Aichi Target 1 by merging online data sources to measure biodiversity awareness and engagement. Biological Conservation 230:29-36.
• Correia RA, Di Minin E, Jarić I, Jepson P, Ladle R, Mittermeier J, Roll U, Soriano-Redondo A, Veríssimo D. 2019. Inferring public interest from search engine data requires caution. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 17:254-255.
• De Frenne P, Van Langenhove L, Van Driessche A, Bertrand C, Verheyen K, Vangansbeke P. 2018. Using archived television video footage to quantify phenology responses to climate change. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9:1874-1882.
• Do, Y. 2019. Valuating aesthetic benefits of cultural ecosystem services using conservation culturomics. Ecosystem Services 36:100894.
• Do, Y., Kim, J.B., Shim, J., Kim, C.-J., Kwon, O., Choi, M.B., 2019. Quantitative analysis of research topics and public concern on V. velutina as invasive species in Asian and European countries. Entomological Research 49, 456-461.
• Fernández-Bellon D, Kane A. Natural history films raise species awareness—A big data approach. Conservation Letters e12678.
• Fisher, D.M., Wood, S.A., Roh, Y.-H., Kim, C.-K., 2019. The Geographic Spread and Preferences of Tourists Revealed by User-Generated Information on Jeju Island, South Korea. Land 8, 73.
• Fukano, Y., Soga, M., 2019. Spatio-temporal dynamics and drivers of public interest in invasive alien species. Biological Invasions 21, 3521-3532.
• Ghermandi, A., Sinclair, M., 2019. Passive crowdsourcing of social media in environmental research: A systematic map. Global Environmental Change 55, 36-47.
• Gosal AS, Geijzendorffer IR, Václavík T, Poulin B, Ziv G. 2019. Using social media, machine learning and natural language processing to map multiple recreational beneficiaries. Ecosystem Services 38:100958.
• Hale, R.L., Cook, E.M., Beltrán, B.J., 2019. Cultural ecosystem services provided by rivers across diverse social-ecological landscapes: A social media analysis. Ecological Indicators 107, 105580.
• Heinrich, S., Ross, J.V., Cassey, P., 2019. Of cowboys, fish, and pangolins: US trade in exotic leather. Conservation Science and Practice 1, e75.
• Jarić, I., R. A. Correia, D. L. Roberts, J. Gessner, Y. Meinard, and F. Courchamp. 2019. On the overlap between scientific and societal taxonomic attentions - Insights for conservation. Science of the Total Environment 648:772-778.
• Jensen, T.J., Auliya, M., Burgess, N.D., Aust, P.W., Pertoldi, C., Strand, J., 2019. Exploring the international trade in African snakes not listed on CITES: highlighting the role of the internet and social media. Biodiversity and Conservation 28, 1-19.
• Kim, Y., Kim, C.-k., Lee, D.K., Lee, H.-w., Andrada, R.I.I.T., 2019. Quantifying nature-based tourism in protected areas in developing countries by using social big data. Tourism Management 72, 249-256.
• Jiménez-Alvarado D, Sarmiento-Lezcano A, Guerra-Marrero A, Tuya F, Santana Del Pino Á, Sealey MJ, Castro JJ. Historical photographs of captures of recreational fishers indicate overexploitation of nearshore resources at an oceanic island. Journal of Fish Biology.
• Kang, Y., Jia, Q., Gao, S., Zeng, X., Wang, Y., Angsuesser, S., Liu, Y., Ye, X., Fei, T., 2019. Extracting human emotions at different places based on facial expressions and spatial clustering analysis. Transactions in GIS 23, 450-480.
• Koylu C, Zhao C, Shao W. 2019. Deep Neural Networks and Kernel Density Estimation for Detecting Human Activity Patterns from Geo-Tagged Images: A Case Study of Birdwatching on Flickr. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 8:45.
• Ladle RJ, Jepson P, Correia RA, Malhado ACM. A culturomics approach to quantifying the salience of species on the global internet. People and Nature 1:524-532.
• Lee, H., Seo, B., Koellner, T., Lautenbach, S., 2019. Mapping cultural ecosystem services 2.0 – Potential and shortcomings from unlabeled crowd sourced images. Ecological Indicators 96:505-515.
• Lennox RJ, Veríssimo D, Twardek WM, Davis CR, Jarić I. Sentiment analysis as a measure of conservation culture in scientific literature. Conservation Biology 34:462-471.
• Lioy, S., Marsan, A., Balduzzi, A., Wauters, L.A., Martinoli, A., Bertolino, S., 2019. The management of the introduced grey squirrel seen through the eyes of the media. Biological Invasions 21:3723-3733.
• Lyu, F., Zhang, L., 2019. Using multi-source big data to understand the factors affecting urban park use in Wuhan. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 43, 126367.
• McClain, C.R., 2019. Likes, comments, and shares of marine organism imagery on Facebook. PeerJ 7, e6795.
• Measey, J., Basson, A., Rebelo, A.D., Nunes, A.L., Vimercati, G., Louw, M., Mohanty, N.P., 2019. Why Have a Pet Amphibian? Insights From YouTube. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7.
• Mittermeier, J. C., U. Roll, T. J. Matthews, T.J, R. Grenyer. 2019. A season for all things: phenological imprints in Wikipedia usage and their relevance to conservation. PLoS biology 17:e3000146.
• Retka, J., Jepson, P., Ladle, R.J., Malhado, A.C.M., Vieira, F.A.S., Normande, I.C., Souza, C.N., Bragagnolo, C., Correia, R.A., 2019. Assessing cultural ecosystem services of a large marine protected area through social media photographs. Ocean & Coastal Management 176: 40-48.
• Rossi, S.D., Barros, A., Walden-Schreiner, C., Pickering, C., 2019. Using social media images to assess ecosystem services in a remote protected area in the Argentinean Andes. Ambio, 1-15.
• Schuetz J. G. and A. Johnston Characterizing the cultural niches of North American birds. PNAS 116: 10868-10873.
• Sim, J., Miller, P., 2019. Understanding an urban park through big data. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, 3816.
• Sinclair, M., Ghermandi, A., Moses, S.A., Joseph, S., 2019. Recreation and environmental quality of tropical wetlands: A social media based spatial analysis. Tourism Management 71, 179-186.
• Soulsbury, C.D., 2020. Temporal patterns of human-fox interactions as revealed from internet searches. Human Dimensions of Wildlife 25, 70-81.
• Spalding M, Parrett CL. 2019. Global patterns in mangrove recreation and tourism. Marine Policy, 103540.
• Spee LB, Hazel SJ, Dal Grande E, Boardman WSJ, Chaber A-L. 2019. Endangered Exotic Pets on Social Media in the Middle East: Presence and Impact. Animals 9:480.
• Toivonen, T., V. Heikinheimo, C. Fink, A. Hausmann, T. Hiippala, O. Järv, H. Tenkanen, and E. Di Minin. 2019. Social media data for conservation science: A methodological overview. Biological Conservation 233:298-315.
• Troumbis, A.Y., 2019. The time and timing components of conservation culturomics cycles and scenarios of public interest in the Google era. Biodiversity and Conservation 28: 1717-1727.
• Veríssimo D, Anderson S, Tlusty M. 2020. Did the movie Finding Dory increase demand for blue tang fish? Ambio 49:903-911.
• Walker, O., Simpson, G.D., Teo, A.C., Newsome, D., 2019. Preprint: Crowdsourcing and Analysing Wildlife Tourism Data from Photographs Shared on Social Media. Preprint.
• Wyckhuys KAG, Pozsgai G, Lovei GL, Vasseur L, Wratten SD, Gurr GM, Reynolds OL, Goettel M. 2019. Global disparity in public awareness of the biological control potential of invertebrates. Science of The Total Environment 660:799-806.
• Xu, Q., Li, J., Cai, M., Mackey, T.K., 2019. Use of Machine Learning to Detect Wildlife Product Promotion and Sales on Twitter. Frontiers in Big Data 2.
• Zamora, A., 2019. Making Room for Big Data: Web Scraping and an Affirmative Right to Access Publicly Available Information Online. J. Bus. Entrepreneurship & L. 12, 203.

 
2018

• Archibald, C. L., and N. Butt. 2018. Using Google search data to inform global climate change adaptation policy. Climatic Change 150:447-456.
• Braczkowski A, et al. 2018. Reach and messages of the world's largest ivory burn. Conservation Biology 32:765-773.
• Burivalova, Z., R. A. Butler, and D. S. Wilcove. 2018. Analyzing Google search data to debunk myths about the public's interest in conservation. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 16:509-514
• Byczek, C., Longaretti, P.-Y., Renaud, J., Lavorel, S., 2018. Benefits of crowd-sourced GPS information for modelling the recreation ecosystem service. PLoS ONE 13, e0202645.
• Chamberlain J. 2018. Chapter Five - Using Social Media for Biomonitoring: How Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Other Social Networking Platforms Can Provide Large-Scale Biodiversity Data. Pages 133-168 in Bohan DA, Dumbrell AJ, Woodward G, and Jackson M, editors. Advances in Ecological Research. Academic Press.
• Chen Y, Parkins JR, Sherren K. 2018. Using geo-tagged Instagram posts to reveal landscape values around current and proposed hydroelectric dams and their reservoirs. Landscape and Urban Planning 170:283-292.
• Correia, R. A., Z. C. Correia, A. C. Malhado, and R. J. Ladle. 2018. Pivotal 20th century contributions to the development of the Anthropocene concept: overview and implications. Current Science 115:1871.
• Correia, R. A., I. Jarić, P. Jepson, A. C. Malhado, J. A. Alves, and R. J. Ladle. 2018. Nomenclature instability in species culturomic assessments: Why synonyms matter. Ecological Indicators 90:74-78.
• Correia, R. A., P. Jepson, A. C. M. Malhado, and R. J. Ladle. 2018. Culturomic assessment of Brazilian protected areas: Exploring a novel index of protected area visibility. Ecological Indicators 85:165-171.
• Courchamp, F., I. Jaric, C. Albert, Y. Meinard, W. J. Ripple, and G. Chapron. 2018. The paradoxical extinction of the most charismatic animals. PLoS Biology 16:e2003997.
• Davies T, et al. 2018. Popular interest in vertebrates does not reflect extinction risk and is associated with bias in conservation investment. PLoS ONE 13:e0203694.
• Di Minin, E., C. Fink, T. Hiippala, and H. Tenkanen. 2018. A framework for investigating illegal wildlife trade on social media with machine learning. Conservation Biology 33:210-213.
• Di Minin, E., C. Fink, H. Tenkanen, and T. Hiippala. 2018. Machine learning for tracking illegal wildlife trade on social media. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2:406-407.
• Donahue, M.L., Keeler, B.L., Wood, S.A., Fisher, D.M., Hamstead, Z.A., McPhearson, T., 2018. Using social media to understand drivers of urban park visitation in the Twin Cities, MN. Landscape and Urban Planning 175, 1-10.
• Fisher, D.M., Wood, S.A., White, E.M., Blahna, D.J., Lange, S., Weinberg, A., Tomco, M., Lia, E., 2018. Recreational use in dispersed public lands measured using social media data and on-site counts. Journal of Environmental Management 222, 465-474.
• Ghermandi A. 2018. Integrating social media analysis and revealed preference methods to value the recreation services of ecologically engineered wetlands. Ecosystem Services 31:351-357.
• Giovos I, et al. 2018. Identifying recreational fisheries in the Mediterranean Sea through social media. Fisheries Management and Ecology 25:287-295.
• Haider, C.M.R., Ali, M.E., 2018. Can We Predict the Scenic Beauty of Locations from Geo-tagged Flickr Images?, In International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). pp. 653-657, Tokyo, Japan.
• Hale, B.W., 2018. Mapping Potential Environmental Impacts from Tourists Using Data from Social Media: A Case Study in the Westfjords of Iceland. Environmental Management 62, 446-457.
• Hausmann, A., T. Toivonen, R. Slotow, H. Tenkanen, A. Moilanen, V. Heikinheimo, and E. Di Minin. 2018. Social Media Data Can Be Used to Understand Tourists' Preferences for Nature-Based Experiences in Protected Areas. Conservation Letters 11:e12343.
• Hiippala, T., A. Hausmann, H. Tenkanen, and T. Toivonen. 2018. Exploring the linguistic landscape of geotagged social media content in urban environments. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 34:290–309.
• Kidd LR, Gregg EA, Bekessy SA, Robinson JA, Garrard GE. 2018. Tweeting for their lives: Visibility of threatened species on twitter. Journal for Nature Conservation 46:106-109.
• Kim JY, Noda A, Im R-Y, Nishihiro J. 2018. Web search volume as a surrogate of public interest in biodiversity: a case study of Japanese red list species. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability 4:289-298.
• Koylu C, Zhao C, Shao W. 2019. Deep Neural Networks and Kernel Density Estimation for Detecting Human Activity Patterns from Geo-Tagged Images: A Case Study of Birdwatching on Flickr. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 8:45.
• Legagneux, P., N. Casajus, K. Cazelles, C. Chevallier, M. Chevrinais, L. Guéry, C. Jacquet, M. Jaffré, M.-J. Naud, F. Noisette, P. Ropars, S. Vissault, P. Archambault, J. Bêty, D. Berteaux, and D. Gravel. 2018. Our House Is Burning: Discrepancy in Climate Change vs. Biodiversity Coverage in the Media as Compared to Scientific Literature. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 5:175.
• Lotan, A., Kost, R., Mandelik, Y., Peled, Y., Chakuki , D., Zemah Shamir, S., Ram, Y., 2018. National scale mapping of ecosystem services in Israel – genetic resources, pollination and cultural services. One Ecosystem 3.
• Mancini, F., Coghill, G.M., Lusseau, D., 2018. Using social media to quantify spatial and temporal dynamics of nature-based recreational activities. PLoS ONE 13, e0200565.
• Martinez-Harms, M.J., Bryan, B.A., Wood, S.A., Fisher, D.M., Law, E., Rhodes, J.R., Dobbs, C., Biggs, D., Wilson, K.A., 2018. Inequality in access to cultural ecosystem services from protected areas in the Chilean biodiversity hotspot. Science of the Total Environment 636, 1128-1138.
• Mikula P, Hadrava J, Albrecht T, Tryjanowski P. 2018. Large-scale assessment of commensalistic-mutualistic associations between African birds and herbivorous mammals using internet photos. PeerJ 6:e4520.
• Monkman, G. G., M. J. Kaiser, and K. Hyder. 2018. Text and data mining of social media to map wildlife recreation activity. Biological Conservation 228:89-99.
• Richards DR, Tunçer B. 2018. Using image recognition to automate assessment of cultural ecosystem services from social media photographs. Ecosystem Services 31:318-325.
• Roll, U., R. A. Correia, and O. Berger-Tal. 2018. Using machine learning to disentangle homonyms in large text corpora. Conservation Biology 32:716-724.
• Seresinhe CI, Moat HS, Preis T. 2018. Quantifying scenic areas using crowdsourced data. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 45:567-582.
• Silk MJ, Crowley SL, Woodhead AJ, Nuno A. 2018. Considering connections between Hollywood and biodiversity conservation. Conservation Biology 32:597-606.
• Sinclair M, Ghermandi A, Sheela AM. 2018. A crowdsourced valuation of recreational ecosystem services using social media data: An application to a tropical wetland in India. The Science of the total environment 642:356-365.
• Sung, Y.-H., Fong, J.J., 2018. Assessing consumer trends and illegal activity by monitoring the online wildlife trade. Biological Conservation 227, 219-225.
• Svoray, T., Dorman, M., Shahar, G., Kloog, I., 2018. Demonstrating the effect of exposure to nature on happy facial expressions via Flickr data: Advantages of non-intrusive social network data analyses and geoinformatics methodologies. Journal of Environmental Psychology 58, 93-100.
• Veríssimo, D., A. Bianchessi, A. Arrivillaga, F. C. Cadiz, R. Mancao, and K. Green. 2018. Does it work for biodiversity? Experiences and challenges in the evaluation of social marketing campaigns. Social Marketing Quarterly 24:18-34.
• Vieira, F. A., C. Bragagnolo, R. A. Correia, A. C. Malhado, and R. J. Ladle. 2018. A salience index for integrating multiple user perspectives in cultural ecosystem service assessments. Ecosystem Services 32:182-192.
• Wäldchen, J., Mäder, P., 2018. Machine learning for image based species identification. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9, 2216-2225.
• Wäldchen J, Rzanny M, Seeland M, Mäder P. 2018. Automated plant species identification—Trends and future directions. PLOS Computational Biology 14:e1005993.
• Walden-Schreiner, C., Rossi, S.D., Barros, A., Pickering, C., Leung, Y.-F., 2018. Using crowd-sourced photos to assess seasonal patterns of visitor use in mountain-protected areas. Ambio 47, 781-793.
• Wang, Z., Jin, Y., Liu, Y., Li, D., Zhang, B., 2018. Comparing social media data and survey data in assessing the attractiveness of Beijing Olympic Forest Park. Sustainability 10, 382.
• Zhang, S., Zhou, W., 2018. Recreational visits to urban parks and factors affecting park visits: Evidence from geotagged social media data. Landscape and Urban Planning 180, 27-35.

 
2017

• Becken S, Stantic B, Chen J, Alaei AR, Connolly RM. 2017. Monitoring the environment and human sentiment on the Great Barrier Reef: Assessing the potential of collective sensing. Journal of Environmental Management 203:87-97.
• Correia, R. A., P. Jepson, A. C. M. Malhado, and R. J. Ladle. 2017. Internet scientific name frequency as an indicator of cultural salience of biodiversity. Ecological Indicators 78:549-555.
• Hausmann, A., T. Toivonen, V. Heikinheimo, H. Tenkanen, R. Slotow, and E. Di Minin. 2017. Social media reveal that charismatic species are not the main attractor of ecotourists to sub-Saharan protected areas. Scientific Reports 7:763.
• Heikinheimo, V., E. D. Minin, H. Tenkanen, A. Hausmann, J. Erkkonen, and T. Toivonen. 2017. User-generated geographic information for visitor monitoring in a national park: A comparison of social media data and visitor survey. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 6:85.
• Hong S, Do Y, Kim JY, Cowan P, Joo G-J. 2017. Conservation activities for the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) in South Korea traced from newspapers during 1962–2010. Biological Conservation 210:157-162.
• Kesebir S, Kesebir P. 2017. A Growing Disconnection From Nature Is Evident in Cultural Products. Perspectives on Psychological Science 12:258-269.
• Korpilo, S., Virtanen, T., Lehvävirta, S., 2017. Smartphone GPS tracking—Inexpensive and efficient data collection on recreational movement. Landscape and Urban Planning 157, 608-617.
• Kusmanoff, A. M., F. Fidler, A. Gordon, and S. A. Bekessy. 2017. Decline of 'biodiversity' in conservation policy discourse in Australia. Environmental Science & Policy 77:160-165.
• Ladle, R. J., P. Jepson, R. A. Correia, and A. C. Malhado. 2017. The power and the promise of culturomics. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 15:290-291.
• Levin, N., Lechner, A.M., Brown, G., 2017. An evaluation of crowdsourced information for assessing the visitation and perceived importance of protected areas. Applied Geography 79, 115-126.
• Megias, D. A., S. C. Anderson, R. J. Smith, and D. Veríssimo. 2017. Investigating the impact of media on demand for wildlife: A case study of Harry Potter and the UK trade in owls. PLoS ONE 12:e0182368.
• Oteros-Rozas E, Martín-López B, Fagerholm N, Bieling C, Plieninger T. 2018. Using social media photos to explore the relation between cultural ecosystem services and landscape features across five European sites. Ecological Indicators 94:74-86.
• Seresinhe CI, Preis T, Moat HS. 2017. Using deep learning to quantify the beauty of outdoor places. Royal Society Open Science 4:170170.
• Sherren K, Parkins JR, Smit M, Holmlund M, Chen Y. 2017. Digital archives, big data and image-based culturomics for social impact assessment: Opportunities and challenges. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 67:23-30.
• Sherren, K., Smit, M., Holmlund, M., Parkins, J.R., Chen, Y., 2017. Conservation culturomics should include images and a wider range of scholars. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 15, 289-290.
• Soriano-Redondo A, Bearhop S, Lock L, Votier SC, Hilton GM. 2017. Internet-based monitoring of public perception of conservation. Biological Conservation 206:304-309.
• Stergiou K. 2017. The most famous fish: Human relationships with fish as inferred from the corpus of online English books (1800-2000). Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics 17:9-18.
• Tenkanen, H., E. Di Minin, V. Heikinheimo, A. Hausmann, M. Herbst, L. Kajala, and T. Toivonen. 2017. Instagram, Flickr, or Twitter: Assessing the usability of social media data for visitor monitoring in protected areas. Scientific Reports 7:17615.
• Troumbis, A. Y. 2017. Declining Google Trends of public interest in biodiversity: semantics, statistics or traceability of changing priorities? Biodiversity and Conservation 26:1495-1505.
• Troumbis AY. 2017. Google Trends and cycles of public interest in biodiversity: the animal spirits effect. Biodiversity and Conservation 26:3421-3443.
• Veríssimo, D., G. Vaughan, M. Ridout, C. Waterman, D. MacMillan, and R. J. Smith. 2017. Increased conservation marketing effort has major fundraising benefits for even the least popular species. Biological Conservation 211, Part A:95-101.
• Wu, X., Wood, S.A., Fisher, D., Lindsey, G., 2017. Photos, tweets, and trails: Are social media proxies for urban trail use? Journal of Transport and Land Use 10.
• Zook, M. et al. 2017. Ten simple rules for responsible big data research. PLoS Computational Biology 13, e1005399.

 
2016

• Andrew, L., Arndt, D., Beristain, N., Cass, T., Clow, T., Colmenares, B., Damm, K., Hatcher, R., Jackson, N., Pasquesi, W., 2016. Changes in United States’ citizens’ interest in sustainability (2004–2014). Life: The Excitement of Biology 4, 138-164.
• Correia, R. A., P. R. Jepson, A. C. M. Malhado, and R. J. Ladle. 2016. Familiarity breeds content: assessing bird species popularity with culturomics. PeerJ 4:e1728.
• Daume S, Galaz V. 2016. “Anyone Know What Species This Is?” – Twitter Conversations as Embryonic Citizen Science Communities. PLoS One 11:e0151387.
• Ghermandi A. 2016. Analysis of intensity and spatial patterns of public use in natural treatment systems using geotagged photos from social media. Water Research 105:297-304.
• Giovos, I., Ganias, K., Garagouni, M., Gonzalvo, J., 2016. Social media in the service of conservation: A case study of dolphins in the Hellenic seas. Aquatic Mammals 42, 12-20.
• Gliozzo, G., Pettorelli, N., Haklay, M., 2016. Using crowdsourced imagery to detect cultural ecosystem services: a case study in South Wales, UK. Ecology and Society 21.
• Hentati-Sundberg J, Olsson O. 2016. Amateur photographs reveal population history of a colonial seabird. Current Biology 26:R226-R228.
• Hinsley A, Lee TE, Harrison JR, Roberts DL. 2016. Estimating the extent and structure of trade in horticultural orchids via social media. Conservation Biology 30:1038-1047.
• Jarić, I., F. Courchamp, J. Gessner, and D. L. Roberts. 2016. Data mining in conservation research using Latin and vernacular species names. PeerJ 4:e2202.
• Jiang H, Lin P, Qiang M. 2016. Public-Opinion Sentiment Analysis for Large Hydro Projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 142:05015013.
• Ladle, R. J., R. A. Correia, Y. Do, G.-J. Joo, A. Malhado, R. Proulx, J.-M. Roberge, and P. Jepson. 2016. Conservation culturomics. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 14:269-275.
• Leighton GRM, Hugo PS, Roulin A, Amar A. 2016. Just Google it: assessing the use of Google Images to describe geographical variation in visible traits of organisms. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 7:1060-1070.
• Miranda EBP, Ribeiro RP, Strüssmann C. 2016. The Ecology of Human-Anaconda Conflict: A Study Using Internet Videos. Tropical Conservation Science 9:43-77.
• Nechanska D, Kurikova P, Patoka J, Kalous L. 2016. Does recreational fisheries contribute to spreading of pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus L.) in the Czech Republic? MendelNet 2016:343-346.
• Nghiem, L. T. P., S. K. Papworth, F. K. S. Lim, and L. R. Carrasco. 2016. Analysis of the Capacity of Google Trends to Measure Interest in Conservation Topics and the Role of Online News. PLoS One 11:e0152802.
• Nunez-Mir, G. C., B. V. Iannone, B. C. Pijanowski, N. Kong, and S. Fei. 2016. Automated content analysis: addressing the big literature challenge in ecology and evolution. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 7:1262-1272.
• Roll, U., J. C. Mittermeier, G. I. Diaz, M. Novosolov, A. Feldman, Y. Itescu, S. Meiri, and R. Grenyer. 2016. Using Wikipedia page views to explore the cultural importance of global reptiles. Biological Conservation 204, Part A:42-50.
• Sessions, C., Wood, S.A., Rabotyagov, S., Fisher, D.M., 2016. Measuring recreational visitation at U.S. National Parks with crowd-sourced photographs. Journal of Environmental Management 183, 703-711.
• Sonter LJ, Watson KB, Wood SA, Ricketts TH. 2016. Spatial and Temporal Dynamics and Value of Nature-Based Recreation, Estimated via Social Media. PLoS One 11:e0162372.
• Sula, C.A., 2016. Research Ethics in an Age of Big Data. Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology 42, 17-21.
• Zablocki J, Arora S, Barua M. 2016. Factors affecting media coverage of species rediscoveries. Conservation Biology 30:914-917.

 
2015

• Arts K, van der Wal R, Adams WM. 2015. Digital technology and the conservation of nature. Ambio 44:661-673.
• Carter DW, Crosson S, Liese C. 2015. Nowcasting Intraseasonal Recreational Fishing Harvest with Internet Search Volume. PLoS One 10:e0137752.
• Di Minin, E., H. Tenkanen, and T. Toivonen. 2015. Prospects and challenges for social media data in conservation science. Frontiers in Environmental Science 3.
• Do Y, Kim JY, Lineman M, Kim D-K, Joo G-J. 2015. Using internet search behavior to assess public awareness of protected wetlands. Conservation Biology 29:271-279.
• El Bizri HR, Morcatty T, Q., Lima J, J. S., Valsecchi J. 2015. The thrill of the chase: uncovering illegal sport hunting in Brazil through YouTube posts. Ecology and Society 20:30.
• Haas AF, et al. 2015. Can we measure beauty? Computational evaluation of coral reef aesthetics. PeerJ 3:e1390.
• Humair, F., Humair, L., Kuhn, F., Kueffer, C., 2015. E-commerce trade in invasive plants. Conservation Biology 29, 1658-1665.
• Jepson, P., and R. J. Ladle. 2015. Nature apps: Waiting for the revolution. Ambio 44:827-832.
• Levin N, Kark S, Crandall D. 2015. Where have all the people gone? Enhancing global conservation using night lights and social media. Ecological Applications 25:2153-2167.
• Lineman, M., Y. Do, J. Y. Kim, and G.-J. Joo. 2015. Talking about Climate Change and Global Warming. PLoS One 10:e0138996.
• Moorhouse TP, Dahlsjö CAL, Baker SE, D'Cruze NC, Macdonald DW. 2015. The Customer Isn't Always Right—Conservation and Animal Welfare Implications of the Increasing Demand for Wildlife Tourism. PLoS One 10:e0138939.
• Papworth, S. K., T. P. L. Nghiem, D. Chimalakonda, M. R. C. Posa, L. S. Wijedasa, D. Bickford, and L. R. Carrasco. 2015. Quantifying the role of online news in linking conservation research to Facebook and Twitter. Conservation Biology 29:825-833.
• Richards DR, Friess DA. 2015. A rapid indicator of cultural ecosystem service usage at a fine spatial scale: Content analysis of social media photographs. Ecological Indicators 53:187-195.
• Schuetz, J., Soykan, C.U., Distler, T., Langham, G., 2015. Searching for backyard birds in virtual worlds: Internet queries mirror real species distributions. Biodiversity and Conservation 24, 1147-1154.

 
2014

• Anderegg WRL, Goldsmith GR. 2014. Public interest in climate change over the past decade and the effects of the ‘climategate’ media event. Environmental Research Letters 9:054005.
• Funk SM, Rusowsky D. 2014. The importance of cultural knowledge and scale for analysing internet search data as a proxy for public interest toward the environment. Biodiversity and Conservation 23:3101-3112.
• Kim JY, Do Y, Im R-Y, Kim G-Y, Joo G-J. 2014. Use of large web-based data to identify public interest and trends related to endangered species. Biodiversity and Conservation 23:2961-2984.
• Martin DR, Chizinski CJ, Eskridge KM, Pope KL. 2014. Using posts to an online social network to assess fishing effort. Fisheries Research 157:24-27.
• Proulx, R., P. Massicotte, and M. Pepino. 2014. Googling Trends in Conservation Biology. Conservation Biology 28:44-51.
• Roberge J-M. 2014. Using data from online social networks in conservation science: which species engage people the most on Twitter? Biodiversity and Conservation 23:715-726.
• Veríssimo, D., D. C. MacMillan, R. J. Smith, J. Crees, and Z. G. Davies. 2014. Has climate change taken prominence over biodiversity conservation? Bioscience 64:625-629.

2013

• Brambilla, M., Gustin, M., Celada, C., 2013. Species appeal predicts conservation status. Biological Conservation 160, 209-213.
  
• Casalegno S, Inger R, DeSilvey C, Gaston KJ. 2013. Spatial Covariance between Aesthetic Value & Other Ecosystem Services. PLoS One8:e68437.
  
• Clements CF. 2013. Public interest in the extinction of a species may lead to an increase in donations to a large conservation charity. Biodiversity and Conservation 22:2695-2699.
• Ficetola GF. 2013. Is interest toward the environment really declining? The complexity of analysing trends using internet search data. Biodiversity and Conservation 22:2983-2988.
• Kádár, B., Gede, M., 2013. Where do tourists go? Visualizing and analysing the spatial distribution of geotagged photography. Cartographica: The international journal for geographic information and geovisualization 48, 78-88.
• Mccallum ML, Bury GW. 2013. Google search patterns suggest declining interest in the environment. Biodiversity and Conservation 22:1355-1367.
• Orsi F, Geneletti D. 2013. Using geotagged photographs and GIS analysis to estimate visitor flows in natural areas. Journal for Nature Conservation 21:359-368.
• Richards DR. 2013. The content of historical books as an indicator of past interest in environmental issues. Biodiversity and Conservation 22:2795-2803.
• Wilde GR, Pope KL. 2013. Worldwide trends in fishing interest indicated by internet search volume. Fisheries Management and Ecology 20:211-222.
• Wood, S.A., Guerry, A.D., Silver, J.M., Lacayo, M., 2013. Using social media to quantify nature-based tourism and recreation. Scientific Reports 3, 2976.
• Zielstra, D., Hochmair, H.H., 2013. Positional accuracy analysis of Flickr and Panoramio images for selected world regions. Journal of Spatial Science 58, 251-273.
• Żmihorski M, Dziarska-Pałac J, Sparks TH, Tryjanowski P. 2013. Ecological correlates of the popularity of birds and butterflies in Internet information resources. Oikos 122:183-190.

2012

• Crandall, D., Snavely, N., 2012. Modeling people and places with internet photo collections. Commun. ACM 55, 52–60.
• Elwood, S., Goodchild, M.F., Sui, D.Z., 2012. Researching Volunteered Geographic Information: Spatial Data, Geographic Research, and New Social Practice. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 102, 571-590.
• Kikillus, K.H., Hare, K.M., Hartley, S., 2012. Online trading tools as a method of estimating propagule pressure via the pet-release pathway. Biological Invasions 14, 2657-2664.
• Martin DR, Pracheil BM, DeBoer JA, Wilde GR, Pope KL. 2012. Using the Internet to Understand Angler Behavior in the Information Age. Fisheries 37:458-463.
• Sonricker Hansen, A.L., Li, A., Joly, D., Mekaru, S., Brownstein, J.S., 2012. Digital Surveillance: A Novel Approach to Monitoring the Illegal Wildlife Trade. PLoS ONE 7, e51156.

2008

• Elwood, S., 2008. Volunteered geographic information: key questions, concepts and methods to guide emerging research and practice. GeoJournal 72, 133-135.

2007

• Goodchild, M.F., 2007. Citizens as sensors: the world of volunteered geography. GeoJournal 69, 211-221.
• Suiter, K., Sferrazza, S., 2007. Monitoring the sale and trafficking of invasive vertebrate species using automated internet search and surveillance tools. Managing Vertebrate Invasive Species 51.
• Wilson JR, Procheş Ş, Braschler B, Dixon ES, Richardson DM. 2007. The (bio)diversity of science reflects the interests of society. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5:409-414.