Designing an Improved Network of Long-Term Monitoring Sites for Arctic Vertebrates: Towards a Better Involvement of Local Communities through Participatory Science Programs

Using interviews of representatives of institutions funding arctic research and of representatives of arctic communities, the team will assess their perceptions and expectations of pan-arctic, long-term participatory research activities on land vertebrates and seabirds. Further, TAMANI collaborators will test the hypothesis that this network of monitoring sites is unevenly distributed relative to environmental gradients. These analyses will allow the team to propose a revised, ecologically sound network of key monitoring sites for land vertebrates and seabirds that allows the most efficient study of these key species on a pan-arctic scale while fully involving local communities in participatory citizen science programmes.