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Looking More Carefully: A Successful Bioblitz Orientation Activity at an Urban Public University

open access: yesCitizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2022
A college freshman orientation activity incorporating citizen science was designed and implemented by a partnership between the University of Massachusetts Boston and the National Park Service.
Megan Rokop   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bicolored Hawk, Accipiter bicolor in Guayaquil city (Western Ecuador)

open access: yesRevista Peruana de Biología, 2023
Accipiter bicolor is a widely distributed Neotropical raptor but knowledge about its ecology is poor, particularly in urban areas. In this work, we document the presence of A. bicolor in the city of Guayaquil and in nearby forested areas, in addition, we
Jaime A. Salas   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nuevos registros de la poco conocida Dardarina gaucha Mielke, 1980 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) en la Reserva de la Biósfera Pereyra Iraola, Buenos Aires, Argentina

open access: yesRevista Chilena de Entomología, 2021
La pequeña saltarina Dardarina gaucha Mielke, 1980, hasta ahora conocida solamente para su localidad tipo en el sur de Brasil y un espécimen recolectado dieciocho años atrás en el noreste de Argentina cerca del Río Uruguay, ha sido encontrada cerca de la
Michelle Delaloye   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Leveraging Citizen Science in a College Classroom to Build Interest and Efficacy for Science and the Environment

open access: yesCitizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2021
University instructors can leverage citizen science resources to support student learning and cultivate interest and efficacy in science and the environment.
Haley Smith   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

iNaturalist accelerates biodiversity research [PDF]

open access: yesBioScience
Brittany M Mason   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Monitoring Trends in Distribution and Seasonality of Medically Important Ticks in North America Using Online Crowdsourced Records from iNaturalist

open access: yesInsects, 2022
Recent increases in the incidence and geographic range of tick-borne diseases in North America are linked to the range expansion of medically important tick species, including Ixodes scapularis, Amblyomma americanum, and Amblyomma maculatum. Passive tick
Benjamin Cull
doaj   +1 more source

Quantifying error in occurrence data: Comparing the data quality of iNaturalist and digitized herbarium specimen data in flowering plant families of the southeastern United States.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
iNaturalist has the potential to be an extremely rich source of organismal occurrence data. Launched in 2008, it now contains over 150 million uploaded observations as of May 2023.
Elizabeth White   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Citizen Science, taxonomy and grass snakes: iNaturalist helps to clarify variation of coloration and pattern in Natrix natrix subspecies [PDF]

open access: yesVertebrate Zoology, 2022
We used a dataset of georeferenced photos of 5,751 grass snakes from iNaturalist to evaluate subspecific variation of Natrix natrix in coloration and pattern.
Uwe Fritz, Flora Ihlow
doaj   +3 more sources

Useful Biodiversity Data Were Obtained by Novice Observers Using iNaturalist During College Orientation Retreats

open access: yesCitizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2021
Citizen scientist platforms such as eBird and iNaturalist are dramatically increasing the biodiversity data available for scientific research. Questions remain about the validity of data collected by people with undefined credentials.
Robert Stevenson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Xicotli Data: a project to retrieve plant-bee interactions from citizen science [PDF]

open access: yesBiodiversity Data Journal, 2023
Xicotli data is the short name given to the dataset generated within the project framework "Integration of Biodiversity Data for the Management and Conservation of Wild Bee-Plant Interactions in Mexico (2021-2023)", as xicotli is the generic ...
Juan Barrios   +11 more
doaj   +3 more sources

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