1. Introduction
Citizen science is a phenomenon born out of a long history of public
participation in scientific research (Miller-Rushing et al., 2012) enacted through many approaches (e.g. contributory, collaborative, and co-created) that can involve crowd sourcing, community-based monitoring,and participatory action research (Bonney et al., 2009; Danielsen et al.,making and examine factors and circumstances influencing success(Conrad and Hilchey, 2011). We do not fully understand how knowledge gained from citizen science translates into conservation decision making processes - processes often requiring integrated knowledge across many topics related to particular places