Site index
Site index
Use this index to navigate by practice area and data outcome rather than by section order.
Observation practice
- Intent: why you are observing matters
- Evidence: photos, sounds, and metadata
- Repeatability: temporal and spatial consistency
Reading pathways
- If you want to improve evidence quality: start with Evidence → Data quality → Identification: how it works.
- If you want to reduce bias: start with Observer bias → Spatial clumping → Repeatability.
- If you publish or analyze data: start with Limits → Aggregation → Export and citation.
Identification
Data quality and failure modes
- Data quality: Research Grade, bias, and failure modes
- Failure mode: observer bias
- Failure mode: spatial clumping
- Failure mode: popularity effects
Ethics, governance, and open science
- Sensitive species and obscured locations
- Extractive observing and community impact
- Civic and open science: resources and practices