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Social and news media in mapping the endangered Mediterranean Monk seal: exceptional data gains but persistent bias

2025-01-22

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Social and news media are increasingly recognised as valuable sources of species distribution data, particularly for rare and endangered species. However, these data sources are prone to biases arising from uneven observation efforts, which pose challenges for their effective use. Despite this, the drivers and extent of such biases remain understudied. Here we investigate the contribution of soc...

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Literature Corpus work: b08f6d51-a064-574d-ad48-3e438dcd44d3
DOI: 10.1101/2025.01.20.633919

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