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Cultivating Bioliteracy, Biodiscovery, Data Literacy, and Ecological Monitoring in Undergraduate Courses with iNaturalist

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2021
iNaturalist is a large and growing open-source online platform connecting a global community of users to the natural world and to each other. iNaturalist makes it simple for anyone to share observations, get identifications, and make identifications of ...
Colleen Hitchcock, Jon J Sullivan, Kelly O'Donnell   +2 more
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Community Science: Big Insights From Small Mammal Data [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution
Biodiversity surveys can be costly and labor‐intensive; therefore, community science databases serve as a practical resource to support survey goals. Community science datasets may be a valuable tool for easily identifiable species.
Marion Sherbourne, Meghan Ward, Meagan Stager, Shelby Cohen, Lucy vanHaaften, Thomas Burgess, Bryan Hughes, Jeff Bowman   +7 more
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Geographic proximity and homophily effects drive social interactions within VGI communities: an example of iNaturalist

International Journal of Digital Earth
Social interactions among online community members contributing to volunteered geographic information (VGI) are a key element and often crucial to VGI project success.
Guiming Zhang, Xi Gong
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Investigating key drivers influencing AI-based detection and identification of plants. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
In recent years, AI-driven platforms have transformed citizen science by collecting and generating valuable records of living organisms for monitoring biological data.
Andréanne Charron, Adèle Julien, Joseph R Stinziano, Marie-Claude Gagnon   +3 more
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iNaturalist and Structured Mammal Surveys Reflect Similar Species Richness but Capture Different Species Pools Across the United States [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution
Crowd‐sourced biodiversity data, such as those housed in the iNaturalist platform, are increasingly used to monitor species distributions. Such data represent unstructured biodiversity surveys that are generally comprised of incidental observations and ...
Daniel J. Herrera, Christopher M. Schalk, Alex J. Jensen, Benjamin R. Goldstein, Brigit R. Rooney, Roland Kays, William J. McShea, Michael V. Cove   +7 more
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Documenting biodiversity with digital data: comparing and contrasting the efficacy of specimen-based and observation-based approaches. [PDF]

New Phytol
Summary Digitized herbarium specimens and iNaturalist observations provide invaluable plant biodiversity data. Combining these two data sources could create a more holistic representation of local biodiversity; however, understanding biases inherent to each is critical to determine how to best combine and utilize these data.
Wilcox RC, Baniaga AE, Hill AP, Young A, Johnson RF, Jacobs SJ.   +5 more
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Contribution of the public to the modelling of the distributions of species: Occurrence and current and potential distribution of the ant Manica rubida (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

European Journal of Entomology, 2023
Maps and models of the distributions of animals and plants are important for assessing their current and future status. Such models rely on information on the environment and occurrence of species.
Patrick KRAPF
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Utilizing The iNaturalist Application for Biology Research and Learning

Jurnal Mangifera Edu, 2023
This literature study aims to describe the utilization of the iNaturalist application (https://www.inaturalist.org/) in biology research and learning activities. iNaturalist is an Online Citizen Science (OCS) application available on the web and Android (
Ipin, Aden Arif Gaffar, Rika Firda Rizkia, Diana Yulianti   +3 more
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Combining Physical and Digital Data Collection for Citizen Science Climate Research

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2022
In this paper, we present our experience designing and implementing a hybrid citizen science protocol combining local data collection reported digitally with the return of physical samples by mail.
Heather Killen, Lucy Chang, Laura Soul, Richard Barclay   +3 more
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Recognizing the importance of near-home contact with nature for mental well-being based on the COVID-19 lockdown experience

Ecology and Society, 2023
Several urban landscape planning solutions have been introduced around the world to find a balance between developing urban spaces, maintaining and restoring biodiversity, and enhancing quality of human life.
Magdalena L. Lenda, Piotr Skórka, Małgorzata Jaźwa, Hsien-Yung Lin, Edward Nęcka, Piotr Tryjanowski, Dawid Moroń, Johannes M. H. Knops, Hugh P Possingham   +8 more
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