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Title (en)
Mosquito alert: leveraging citizen science to create a GBIF mosquito occurrence dataset
Language
English
Description (en)
The Mosquito Alert dataset includes occurrence records of adult mosquitoes collected worldwide in 2014-2020 through Mosquito Alert, a citizen science system for investigating and managing disease-carrying mosquitoes. Records are linked to citizen science-submitted photographs and validated by entomologists to determine the presence of five targeted European mosquito vectors: Aedes albopictus, Ae. aegypti, Ae. japonicus, Ae. koreicus, and Culex pipiens. Most records are from Spain, reflecting Spanish national and regional funding, but since autumn 2020 substantial records from other European countries are included, thanks to volunteer entomologists coordinated by the AIM-COST Action, and to technological developments to increase scalability. Among other applications, the Mosquito Alert dataset will help develop citizen science-based early warning systems for mosquito-borne disease risk. It can also be reused for modelling vector exposure risk, or to train machine-learning detection and classification routines on the linked images, to assist with data validation and establishing automated alert systems.
Keywords (en)
Ecology, Taxonomy, Biodiversity
DOI
10.46471/gigabyte.54
Author of the digital object
Živko Južnič-Zonta  (Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes)
Mosquito Alert Community
Mosquito Alert Digital Entomology Network
Frederic Bartumeus Ferre  (Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes / entre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals / Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats)
Luisa Barzon  (Università degli Studi di Padova)
Marion Koopmans  (Erasmus University Medical Center)
Miguel Ángel Miranda  (University Balearic Islands)
Alessandra Della Torre  (Sapienza University)
Francis Schaffner  (Francis Schaffner Consultancy)
Alex Richter-Boix  (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals)
Aitana Oltra  (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Joan Garriga  (Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes)
Agustí Escobar  (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals)
John R. B. Palmer  (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Isis Sanpera-Calbet  (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Roger Eritja  (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals)
Format
application/pdf
Size
310.7 kB
Licence Selected
CC BY 4.0 International
Type of publication
Article
Name of Publication (en)
Giga Byte
Pages or Volume
13
Volume
2022
Publisher
BGI
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication Date
2022