Comparing community birdwatching and professional bird monitoring with implications for avian diversity research: a case study of Suzhou, China

doi: 10.1186/s40657-020-00205-w

• Yan Zhou^{1, 2 ,  ,  ,}  , 
• Anping Chen^{3 ,  ,}  , 
• Jenny Q. Ouyang⁴ , 
• Yanlin Liu⁵ , 
• Aiyu Zheng⁶ , 
• Zaixi Yang¹ , 
• Yong Zhang¹ , 
• Bin Wang⁷ , 
• Yifei Jia² , 
• Shengwu Jiao^{2, 8} , 
• Qing Zeng² , 
• Changhu Lu¹

• 1.

  Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China/College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China

• 2.

  School of Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China

• 3.

  Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA

• 4.

  Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA

• 5.

  Institute of Forest Ecology Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China

• 6.

  Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

• 7.

  College of Lifesciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410006, China

• 8.

  Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang 311400, China