A pretty belated update, but a few years ago, I posted about what things get misidentified as large milkweed bugs https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-things-are-misidentified-as-large-milkweed-bug/12571 Our related research was published recently and is open access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com…

You listed “iNaturalist Citizen Scientists” as an author on a journal publication? That is very cool and sets a good precedent.

Yes! We got a lot of support in figuring out how we could give appropriate group attribution. Norms are still evolving, but as an author team, we felt it was worth elevating to authorship because the work would have been impossible without the iNaturalist community contributions.

SCGP on the map = South central Great Plains? Weird name for the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts (I jest). I love seeing the colorful Lygaeus kalmii and trying to take worthy pictures of them.

We did really struggle with the best ways to delineate ecoregions, and I think one of our take-home messages is that delineating the best level of aggregation for a continentally distributed species can be challenging, but it is important to understand local drivers or regional drivers. We defined …

[image] alexis18: And this region is the (roughly) where A. asperula and A. linaria would be the dominant species. To follow up on this comment (sorry, I haven’t read the paper yet) … how did you define dominant milkweed? If I’m not mistaken, this region has the highest species diversity on y…

Thanks for sharing this. Incredibly fascinating work!

Very cool, kudos!! I think a lot of people dont realize their are folks on inat that work really hard to maintain a accurate data set for particular species groups.

The figure of the milkweeds is from a different publication not ours, just to clarify so we didn’t do anything new in this work on the host plant side. The host plant side is also where I start to get a bit out of my depth since I am more on the data and informatics side, so I’m checking with the co…

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Nice! Added here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/published-papers-that-use-inaturalist-data-wiki-3-2022-and-2023/34753

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