Public participation to monitoring programs is increasingly advocated to overcome scarcity of resources and deliver important information for policy‐making. Here, we illustrate the design of optimal monitoring networks for bird species of conservation concern in Catalonia (NE Spain), under different scenarios of combined governmental and citizen‐science monitoring approaches. In our case study, current government efforts, limited to protected areas, were insufficient to cover the whole spectrum of target species and species‐threat levels, reinforcing the assumption that citizen‐science data can greatly assist in achieving monitoring targets. However, simply carrying out both government and citizen‐science monitoring ad hoc led to inefficiency and duplication of efforts: some species were represented in excess of targets while several features were undersampled. Policy‐making should concentrate on providing an adequate platform for coordination of government and public‐participatory monitoring to minimize duplicated efforts, overcome the biases of each monitoring program and obtain the best from both.

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通过将不同的监测方法集成到空间优先级设计中，可以提高物种调查网络的效率

越来越多地提倡公众参与监测计划，以克服资源短缺并为决策提供重要信息。在这里，我们举例说明了在加泰罗尼亚（西班牙东北部）采用政府和公民科学相结合的监测方法的不同情况下，对鸟类保护的关注物种最佳监测网络的设计。在我们的案例研究中，目前政府的工作仅限于保护区，不足以涵盖目标物种的整个范围和物种威胁水平，从而强化了这样的假设，即公民科学数据可以极大地帮助实现监测目标。但是，只需临时执行政府和公民科学监控导致工作效率低下和工作重复：某些物种的数量超出目标，而某些特征的采样率低。决策应集中在提供适当的平台来协调政府和公众参与的监测，以最大程度地减少重复的工作，克服每个监测计划的偏见，并从两者中获取最大的收益。