# iNaturalist observations informed scientific models: Huckleberries and climate change

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-observations-informed-scientific-models-huckleberries-and-climate-change/13254>\
**Category:** Nature Talk\
**Tags:** cool-story, news\
**Created:** [June 10, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-observations-informed-scientific-models-huckleberries-and-climate-change/13254 "2020-06-10T20:27:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![joeek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/joeek/32/10032_2.png) [@joeek](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/joeek)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-observations-informed-scientific-models-huckleberries-and-climate-change/13254/1 "2020-06-10T20:27:44Z")

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Thought I would share this story here (given that it is an example of where iNaturalist can help environmental science). Inspiration for more iNaturalist observation-ing! :)

It’s story about Huckleberry responses to climate change (and the research that was helped by iNaturalist observations); posted to medium: [https://medium.com/p/huckleberries-harbingers-of-climate-change-b3f200a4e0fc?source=email-8e48b9ba8bca–writer.postDistributed&sk=72ac7dd31a84afe56bdc766c72c05c00](https://medium.com/p/huckleberries-harbingers-of-climate-change-b3f200a4e0fc?source=email-8e48b9ba8bca--writer.postDistributed&sk=72ac7dd31a84afe56bdc766c72c05c00)

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**Author:** ![teellbee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/teellbee/32/15498_2.png) [@teellbee](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/teellbee)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 1:51am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-observations-informed-scientific-models-huckleberries-and-climate-change/13254/2 "2020-06-11T01:51:18Z")

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Welcome to the Forum!  
That article is very interesting and I liked the photos.

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**Author:** ![bcfl14](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bcfl14/32/1995_2.png) [@bcfl14](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bcfl14)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-observations-informed-scientific-models-huckleberries-and-climate-change/13254/3 "2020-06-11T16:48:45Z")

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Nice write-up! I love the idea of using iNaturalist to add phenology records - the annotations system has been a great addition to the platform. Saving your article as another cool example of how scientists are using iNaturalist data.

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**Author:** ![joeek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/joeek/32/10032_2.png) [@joeek](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/joeek)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 3:02am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-observations-informed-scientific-models-huckleberries-and-climate-change/13254/4 "2020-06-12T03:02:45Z")

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Agreed- are there any known efforts to focus on a particular (easily identified) species to get more widespread participation on collecting phenological data? Dr. Prevey mentioned Lilacs… (but not sure if with iNaturalist). It seems like huckleberries could be similar in that people often encounter and easily identified.

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**Author:** ![bcfl14](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bcfl14/32/1995_2.png) [@bcfl14](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bcfl14)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-observations-informed-scientific-models-huckleberries-and-climate-change/13254/5 "2020-06-13T13:06:18Z")

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I’m not aware of any like that. The closest I could think of is a paper that came out using Yucca observations from iNat, but it doesn’t seem to have used the annotations system.

[https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aps3.11315%4010.1002/(ISSN)2168-0450.low-cost-methods-in-plant-sciences](https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aps3.11315%4010.1002/%28ISSN%292168-0450.low-cost-methods-in-plant-sciences)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-observations-informed-scientific-models-huckleberries-and-climate-change/13254/6 "2020-08-12T13:06:28Z")

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