Laura Miralles (Author)
Eva Garcia-Vazquez (Author)
Eduardo Dopico (Author)
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
Volume: 46
Issue: 4
Pages: 677-688
Citizens are essential for safeguarding ecosystems from biopollutants, but raising the population’s awareness of the problem through the communication of scientific discoveries about biological invasions is still a challenge. Here, we have assayed an interdisciplinary game-based method of recognizing the invasive pygmy mussel Xenosotrobus securis for volunteers of different age groups, we have measured their learning gain and engagement, and we have compared it with that obtained from conventional talk-lecture training. A highly significant positive correlation was found between knowledge gain and awareness, which were both greater in children than in adults. Similar engagement was achieved in the two age groups regarding volunteering in an eradication project. The results suggest the high efficacy of game-based training, especially in young age groups. One year after the volunteers’ action, environmental DNA surveys and visual inspections confirmed the control of the invasive species population in a defined area through time.
...MoreSimilar Citations
Article
Michelle Riedlinger;
Jaclyn Rea;
(July 2015)
Discourse Ecology and Knowledge Niches Negotiating the Risks of Radiation in Online Canadian Forums, Post-Fukushima
(/isis/citation/CBB039967740/)
Article
Karen Kovaka;
(2021)
Evaluating Community Science
(/isis/citation/CBB988749229/)
Book
Aya H. Kimura;
Abby Kinchy;
(2019)
Science by the People: Participation, Power, and the Politics of Environmental Knowledge
(/isis/citation/CBB605020733/)
Article
Stefano Giovanardi;
Gabriele Catanzaro;
Giangiacomo Gandolfi;
Gianluca Masi;
(2018)
E Lucevan Le Stelle: Engaging the Public of Rome in a Cultural Repossession of the Urban Sky
(/isis/citation/CBB444510701/)
Article
Phil Brown;
(2021)
From the Radical Psychology Movement to STS: A Journey From the 1960s in Multiple Parts
(/isis/citation/CBB099951762/)
Article
Mark Groulx;
Marie Claire Brisbois;
Christopher J. Lemieux;
Amanda Winegardner;
LeeAnn Fishback;
(February 2017)
A Role for Nature-Based Citizen Science in Promoting Individual and Collective Climate Change Action? A Systematic Review of Learning Outcomes
(/isis/citation/CBB727460697/)
Article
Isabel Ruiz-Mallén;
Livio Riboli-Sasco;
Claire Ribrault;
Maria Heras;
Daniel Laguna;
Leïla Perié;
(August 2016)
Citizen Science: Toward Transformative Learning
(/isis/citation/CBB318627546/)
Article
Rick Bonney;
Tina B. Phillips;
Heidi L. Ballard;
Jody W. Enck;
(2016)
Can Citizen Science Enhance Public Understanding of Science?
(/isis/citation/CBB706968819/)
Article
Hauke Riesch;
Clive Potter;
Linda Davies;
(2016)
What Is Public Engagement, and What Is It for? A Study of Scientists’ and Science Communicators’ Views
(/isis/citation/CBB919494863/)
Book
Elena Conis;
(2022)
How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT
(/isis/citation/CBB048978230/)
Book
Toshihiro Higuchi;
(2020)
Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis
(/isis/citation/CBB212919708/)
Article
Martha Merson;
(February 2017)
Four Principles to Guide Interactions: Assisting Communities Confronting Environmental Contamination
(/isis/citation/CBB072506552/)
Article
Roman Gilmintinov;
(2019)
“We can and we must”: The scientificity of trade-union history-writing in the Soviet Union in the 1920s
(/isis/citation/CBB397639123/)
Book
Tobias Scheidegger;
(2017)
"Petite Science": Außeruniversitäre Naturforschung in der Schweiz um 1900
(/isis/citation/CBB493764349/)
Article
Dana Mahr;
Sascha Dickel;
(2019)
Citizen Science Beyond Invited Participation: Nineteenth Century Amateur Naturalists, Epistemic Autonomy, and Big Data Approaches Avant La Lettre
(/isis/citation/CBB695305682/)
Article
Martin Rohde;
(2019)
Local knowledge and amateur participation. Shevchenko Scientific Society, 1892–1914
(/isis/citation/CBB769100915/)
Article
Veronica della Dora;
(2023)
From the Radio Shack to the Cosmos: Listening to Sputnik during the International Geophysical Year (1957–1958)
(/isis/citation/CBB770612333/)
Thesis
Jonathan Isaac Cluck;
(2015)
Parasite Labs: Laboratory Protocols of Do-It-Yourself Biology
(/isis/citation/CBB277458520/)
Article
Abby Kinchy;
(2017)
Citizen Science and Democracy: Participatory Water Monitoring in the Marcellus Shale Fracking Boom
(/isis/citation/CBB233272324/)
Article
Barbara L. Allen;
(November 2018)
Strongly Participatory Science and Knowledge Justice in an Environmentally Contested Region
(/isis/citation/CBB069762669/)
Be the first to comment!