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On iNaturalist, an observation is "verifiable" if it has no penalties in its Data
Quality Assessment. Observations lacking a date, location, or media are automatically penalised, and users may grant penalties if they deem that the date or location is inaccurate, that there is no evidence or no recent
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On the iNaturalist.org website, visitors can search the public dataset and interact with other people adding observations and identifications. The website provides tools for registered users to add, identify, and discuss observations, write journal posts, explore information about species, and create
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features. Users typically upload photos as evidence of their findings, though audio recordings are also accepted, and such evidence is not a strict requirement. Users may share observation locations publicly, "obscure" them to display a less precise location or make the locations completely private.
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platforms other than iNaturalist to participate. In 4 days, over 17,000 people cataloged over 440,000 nature observations in urban regions around the world. In 2019, the CNC once again expanded, with 35,000 participants in 159 cities collecting 964,000 observations of over 31,000 species. Although
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documented over 20,000 observations with the iNaturalist platform. In 2017, the CNC expanded to 16 cities across the United States and collected over 125,000 observations of wildlife in 5 days. The CNC expanded to a global audience in 2018, with 68 cities participating from 19 countries, with some
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iNaturalist describes itself as "an online social network of people sharing biodiversity information to help each other learn about nature," with its primary goal being to connect people to nature. Although it is not a science project itself, iNaturalist is a platform for science and conservation
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is commonly provided if the model is unsure of the species. It is trained once or twice a year, and the threshold for species included in the training set has changed over time. It can be difficult for the model to guess correctly if the species in question is infrequently observed or hard to
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On iNaturalist, other users add identifications to each other's observations in order to confirm or improve the identification of the observation. Observations are classified as "Casual", "Needs ID" (needs identification), or "Research Grade" based on the quality of the data provided and the
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carnivore, was seen for the first time in the 21st century when an iNaturalist user uploaded snapshots of the weasel exploring a privy. Two teenagers in
California used iNaturalist observations of unfamiliar scorpions as the first step in their eventual description of two new species. The
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catches, or discovering new species. In 2011, iNaturalist was used as a platform to power the Global
Amphibian and Global Reptile BioBlitzes, in which observations were used to help monitor the occurrence and distribution of the world's reptiles and amphibian species. The US
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AmĂ©zquita, Adolfo; Márquez, Roberto; Medina, Ricardo; MejĂa-Vargas, Daniel; Kahn, Ted R.; Suárez, Gustavo; Mazariegos, Luis (5 March 2013). "A new species of Andean poison frog, Andinobates (Anura: Dendrobatidae), from the northwestern Andes of
Colombia".
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to research projects, land managers, other organizations, and the public. It is the primary application for crowd-sourced biodiversity data in places such as Mexico, southern Africa, and
Australia, and the project has been called "a standard-bearer for
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model which has been trained on the large database of the observations on iNaturalist. Multiple species suggestions are typically provided with the suggestion that the software guesses to be most likely is at the top of the list. A broader
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community identification process. Any quality of data can be downloaded from iNaturalist and "Research Grade" observations are often incorporated into other online databases such as the Global
Biodiversity Information Facility and the
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of observations and identifications. An iNaturalist observation records a person's encounter with an individual organism at a particular time and place. An iNaturalist observation may also record evidence of an organism, such as
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Master's final project of Nate Agrin, Jessica Kline, and Ken-ichi Ueda. Agrin and Ueda continued work on the site with Sean McGregor, a web developer. In 2011, Ueda began collaboration with Scott Loarie, a research fellow at
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put up a light to attract moths and snapped a casual photo of an insect that had parked itself under a lawn chair on his hotel balcony; his upload to iNaturalist was the first time the moth had been seen alive in 65 years.
211:. Scientists have published more than 4,000 papers drawn from iNaturalist data sets and observations, including descriptions of species new to science and rediscoveries of species so rarely seen they were feared extinct.
587:(GBIF), often in the fields of ecology, conservation, and climate change. Many articles focus on climate-driven range shifts and expansions. For example, in 2015, data from iNaturalist was used to show that the
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On the iNaturalist mobile app, registered users can create and share nature observations to the online dataset, explore observations both nearby and around the world, and learn about different species.
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Moore, Michael P.; Lis, Cassandra; Gherghel, Iulian; Martin, Ryan A. (March 2019). "Temperature shapes the costs, benefits and geographic diversification of sexual coloration in a dragonfly".
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349:, such as providing a list of nearby organisms to find and encouraging the collection of badges and participation in challenges. Seek was initially released in the spring of 2018.
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Seek by iNaturalist, a separate app marketed to families, requires no online account registration and all observations may remain private. Seek incorporates features of
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partnered with iNaturalist to record observations from the 2016 National Parks BioBlitz. That project exceeded 100,000 observations in August 2016. In 2017, the
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Other published research focuses on the description of new species or rediscovery of species previously considered extinct. For example, a species of snail,
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Observations and media licensed with
Creative Commons licenses are often shared elsewhere, including the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (excluding
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Users have created and contributed to tens of thousands of different projects on iNaturalist. The platform is commonly used to record observations during
517:(when the CNC became collaborative as opposed to competitive), more cities and people participated, and more species were found than in previous years.
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evidence of an organism, or that the organism is not wild. Non-verifiable observations are hidden from view by default, unless expressly enabled.
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or coloration of species observations. For example, a study in 2019 assessed the relationship between wing coloration and temperature in the
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As of
January 2024, more than 4,000 research papers have been published that cite the iNaturalist research-grade observations hosted on the
2317:"The vulnerable colombian weasel Mustela felipei (Carnivora): new record from Colombia and a review of its distribution in protected areas"
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Pimm, S. L.; Jenkins, C. N.; Abell, R.; Brooks, T. M.; Gittleman, J. L.; Joppa, L. N.; Raven, P. H.; Roberts, C. M.; Sexton, J. O. (2014).
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Catling, Paul M.; Kostiuk, Brenda; Heron, Jennifer; Jimenez, Runel; Chapman, Monique; Gamiet, Sharmin; Sterenberg, Velma (5 June 2018).
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of annual changes in number of species observed (in thousands; green) and number of verifiable observations (in millions; black).
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and lecturer at UC Berkeley. Ueda and Loarie are the current co-directors of iNaturalist.org. The organization merged with the
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Users have the option to license their observations, photos, and audio recordings in several ways, including for the
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Since 2012, the number of participants and observations has roughly doubled each year. In 2014, iNaturalist reached 1
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on April 24, 2014. In 2017, iNaturalist became a joint initiative between the
California Academy of Sciences and the
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identify from images alone; or if the image submitted has poor lighting, is blurry, or contains multiple subjects.
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On 11 July 2023, iNaturalist became registered as an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
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co-founded the City Nature Challenge (CNC). In the first City Nature Challenge, naturalists in
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worldwide, and 290,007 users were active in the previous 30 days.
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Young, Alison; Higgins, Lila; Jaecker-Jones, Amy (4 May 2020).
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million observations and as of October 2023 there were 181
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mobile applications." Most of iNaturalist's software is
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first discovered with the aid of iNaturalist was named
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through two mobile apps: iNaturalist (iOS/Android) and
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Users can interact with iNaturalist in several ways:
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Website and app for sharing biodiversity observations
1534:"This New App Is Like Shazam for Your Nature Photos"
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1404:"Managing Projects"
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