Knowledge gap and conditional receptivity: why tree and forest professionals underutilize citizen science for quarantine pest detection in France
Bastien Castagneyrol, Souleymane Bah, Baptiste Bedessem, Maarten de Groot, Amal Ennabih
The paper surveys French forest professionals to assess their use and attitudes toward citizen science for detecting quarantine pests, finding limited integration despite platform availability.
bioRxiv · Aug 5, 2026 · PreprintEcology