Hi all, I’m hoping to do some species distribution modelling of my favourite species, but I worry about some areas having smaller samples because of fewer iNaturalist users. I could use population roughly, but I imagine some areas might have a higher proportion of users than others. Is there a wa…

Just a word of caution. Even with a geographic distribution of observation density, I would still take iNaturalist data with a grain of salt. Most observers on iNaturalist will make observations that are quite skewed to the novel. So where a species is rare because it is near or outside its natur…

[image] katieemarshall: Is there a way to download just the geographic distribution of observation density when you go to the map view in the Explore page on the iNaturalist website, you’ll see that at low zoom levels, it is essentially a gridded density map. if you would be happy with being …

Number of iNaturalist observations gridded data?

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astra_the_dragon September 22, 2020, 10:05pm 2

Welcome to the Forum, @katieemarshall! Intriguing question. I’m sure there are people on the Forums who have experience with this sort of modeling who can help.

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