Engaging me softly: Comparing social drivers for continuative citizens’ participation in a long-term citizen science initiative on protected species monitoring

• Silvia Gisondi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CREA – Research centre for Plant Protection and Certification, Rome, Italy

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• Paolo Giardullo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: paolo.giardullo@unipd.it

  ¤ Current address: Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology – Section of Sociology, University of Padova, via Melchiorre Cesarotti, Padua, Italy

  Affiliation Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Padua, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2560-9088

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• Alice Lenzi,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations CREA – Research centre for Plant Protection and Certification, Florence, Italy, Department of Life Sciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

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• Emanuele Di Buccio,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padua, Italy, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova, Padua, Italy, Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Padua, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6506-617X

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• Pio Federico Roversi,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Affiliation CREA – Research centre for Plant Protection and Certification, Florence, Italy

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• Alessandro Campanaro

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CREA – Research centre for Plant Protection and Certification, Florence, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4043-6362

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