An overview of the history, current contributions and future outlook of iNaturalist in Australia
Thomas Mesaglio
A C and Corey T. Callaghan A B
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- Author Affiliations
A Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of New South Wales, UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
B Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of New South Wales, UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
C Corresponding author. Email: thomasmesaglio@gmail.com
Wildlife Research 48(4) 289-303 https://doi.org/10.1071/WR20154
Submitted: 3 September 2020 Accepted: 16 January 2021 Published: 19 March 2021
Journal Compilation © CSIRO 2021 Open Access CC BY-NC
Abstract
Citizen science initiatives and the data they produce are increasingly common in ecology, conservation and biodiversity monitoring. Although the quality of citizen science data has historically been questioned, biases can be detected and corrected for, allowing these data to become comparable in quality to professionally collected data. Consequently, citizen science is increasingly being integrated with professional science, allowing the collection of data at unprecedented spatial and temporal scales. iNaturalist is one of the most popular biodiversity citizen science platforms globally, with more than 1.4 million users having contributed over 54 million observations. Australia is the top contributing nation in the southern hemisphere, and in the top four contributing nations globally, with over 1.6 million observations of over 36 000 identified species contributed by almost 27 000 users. Despite the platform’s success, there are few holistic syntheses of contributions to iNaturalist, especially for Australia. Here, we outline the history of iNaturalist from an Australian perspective, and summarise, taxonomically, temporally and spatially, Australian biodiversity data contributed to the platform. We conclude by discussing important future directions to maximise the usefulness of these data for ecological research, conservation and policy.
Keywords: citizen science, iNaturalist, biodiversity data, conservation, community science.
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