This is a third wiki for providing a user-curated list of scientific publications that use iNaturalist data, covering the years 2022 and 2023. We reached the character limit with previous wikis for the period up to 2019, and for 2020 and 2021. Having moved relevant articles to the newest wiki, it should still be possible to add any additional older publications to the first two.
Please add relevant publications, including, where possible (1) a link to the paper itself, (2) a link to the observation filter that encompasses as closely as possible what was used by the paper, and (3) contact details for the author(s) in cases where the paper is not open access. There is no need to additionally comment that you have added a paper.
Articles are organised in sections for each year, and then in alphabetical order within year.
These wikis are intended to complement the list of 3000+ papers that cite GBIF data including iNaturalist exports so papers already on that list need not be included here.
2023
Bravo, G.; Kaminsky, J.; Bagur, M.; Alonso, C.P.; Rodríguez, M.; Fraysse, C.; Lovrich, G.; Bigatti, G. (2023) Roving Diver Survey as a Rapid and Cost-Effective Methodology to Register Species Richness in Sub-Antarctic Kelp Forests. Diversity, 15 , 354. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15030354
Forti, L.R. (2023) Students as citizen scientists: project-based learning through the iNaturalist platform could provide useful biodiversity data, Biodiversity, https://doi.org/10.1080/14888386.2023.2174595
Forti, L.R. & Szabo, J. K. (2023) The iNaturalist Platform as a Source of Data to Study Amphibians in Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 95(1): e20220828. DOI 10.1590/0001-3765202320220828 - available at https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/4pKNrwDdDP89DTN5XWQcxxF/?lang=en
Fogel, N, Thompson F, Muñiz P, and Camilo G. (2021; available 2023)
The Prevalence and Manifestation of Wing De-melanization in the Eastern Carpenter Bee (Hymenoptera, Apidae Xylocopa virginica) Associated with Urban Areas Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 94(4) 235-266
Project
Gaier, A.G. & Resasco J. (2023) Does adding community science observations to museum records improve distribution modeling of a rare endemic plant? Ecosphere 14:3:e4419
Gaspar, H., Castro, S. Grosso-Silva, J.M., van der Heyden, T. & Loureiro, J. (2023) Exponential outspread of Halyomorpha halys (Stål, 1855) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in Portugal. Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26: 13-18.
Grosso-Silva, J.M., Valkenburg, T., Barros, F. & van der Heyden, T. (2023) Polytoxus Spinola, 1850 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Saicinae), new genus for Portugal, with records of Polytoxus sanguineus (A. Costa, 1842) and Polytoxus siculus (A. Costa, 1842). Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26: 209-212.
Krueger, T., Robinson, A., Bourke, G. & Fleischmann, A. (2023) Small Leaves, Big Diversity: Citizen Science and Taxonomic Revision Triples Species Number in the Carnivorous Drosera microphylla Complex (D. Section Ergaleium, Droseraceae) - Biology 2023, 12(1), 141 Observation1, Observation2
Pemberton, R.W. & Escalona, E. (2023) Spread and Distribution of the Naturalized Orchid Bee Euglossa dilemma in Florida. Florida Entomologist 106(1): 59-62.
van der Heyden, T. (2023) First record of Thaumastocoris peregrinus Carpintero & Dellapé, 2006 (Heteroptera: Thaumastocoridae) from the Canary Islands (Spain). Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26: 11.
van der Heyden, T. (2023) New records of Heteroptera from the Canary Islands (Spain), I. Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26: 101-104.
van der Heyden, T. (2023) New records of Heteroptera from the Canary Islands (Spain), III. Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26: 119-120.
van der Heyden, T. (2023) New records of Heteroptera from the Canary Islands (Spain), IV. Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26: 183-184.
van der Heyden, T. (2023) New records of Heteroptera from the Canary Islands (Spain), V. Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26: 213-214.
van der Heyden, T. & Petrovan, S. (2023) New records of Heteroptera from the Canary Islands (Spain), II. Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26: 109-111.
2022
Antunez-Fonseca, C.A., Hofmann, E.P., Barahona, A.R., Ordonez-Mazier, D.I., Dubon, F.J., Reyes, H.D., & Townsend, J.H. (2022) New records and range expansion of Norops sagrei (Squamata: Dactyloidae) in Honduras highlight the importance of citizen science in documenting non-native species. Caldasia 44(2): 325–331.
Boevski, D. & Georgiev, D. (2022) First record of Cassida seraphina Ménétries, 1836 from Bulgaria. ZooNotes, Supplement 11: 61–63. [Observation]
Braun, H. 2022. An interesting new species of Conocephalus (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae) from Argentina. Zootaxa. 5196(4):588–594
[Observations]
Callaghan CT, Mesaglio T, Ascher JS, Brooks TM, Cabras AA, Chandler M, et al. (2022) The benefits of contributing to the citizen science platform iNaturalist as an identifier. PLoS Biol 20(11): e3001843.
Carnahan, S.D., Makings, E., Morefield, J.D. (2022) First report of Lasiopogon glomerulatus for Arizona, USA, and northern and western hemispheres. Phytoneuron 2022-34: 1–7. [Observations]
Connors, M.G., et al. (+28 additional co-authors) (2022) Citizen scientists track a charismatic carnivore: Mapping the spread and impact of the South African Mantis (Miomantidae, Miomantis caffra) in Australia. Journal of Orthoptera Research 31(1): 69–82.
Davis, A. K. & Frick, B. L. (2022) Physiological evaluation of newly invasive jorō spiders (Trichonephila clavata) in the southeastern USA compared to their naturalized cousin, Trichonephila clavipes. Physiological Entomology: Early View.
Demetriou J., Díaz-Calafat J., Kalaentzis K., Kazilas C., Georgiadis C., Turrisi G.F., Koutsoukos E. (2022) The alien Black-and-yellow Mud Dauber, Sceliphron caementarium (Drury, 1773) (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae), continues its spread: new citizen-science records from Eastern Europe
and the Balkans. Check List 18 (3): 535–543.
Egger, J.M., C.G. Velazco-Macías, and A. Huereca. (2022) Castilleja salaisolaveae (Orobanchaceae): A remarkable new species and a guide to the Castilleja species of Nuevo León, México. Phytoneuron 2022-52: 1–48.
Fales, R.F. & Hewitt, S. J. (2022) [Northerly range extension for Littoraria nebulosa (Lamarck, 1822): update] December 2022 American Conchologist December 2022, Vol. 50, No. 4, Pages 34 - 36.
Faúndez, E. (2022) On the distribution of Arioge germainii (Signoret) and Encedonia mutica (Signoret) (Heteroptera: Coreidae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 81: 70–72.
Forti, L. R., Hepp, F., de Souza, J. M., Protazio, A., & Szabo, J. K. (online early) Climate drives anuran breeding phenology in a continental perspective as revealed by citizen‐collected data. Diversity and Distributions.
Forti, L. R., Pontes, M. R., Augusto-Alves, G., Martins, A., Hepp, F., & Szabo, J. K. (2022) Data collected by citizen scientists reveal the role of climate and phylogeny on the frequency of shelter types used by frogs across the Americas. Zoology 126052.
Fritz, U. & Ihlow, F. (2022) Citizen Science, taxonomy and grass snakes: iNaturalist helps to clarify variation of coloration and pattern in Natrix natrix subspecies. Vertebrate Zoology 72: 533-549.
Garduño, F. S., Tepos Ramírez, M., et al. (2022) Confirmation and new records of herpetofauna for Querétaro, Mexico through a citizen science portal. Revista Latinoamericana de Herpetologia 5(1): 142–150.
Haelewaters, D., Van Caenegem, W. & De Kesel, A. (2022) Hesperomyces harmoniae, a new name for a common ectoparasitic fungus on the invasive alien ladybird Harmonia axyridis. Sydowia 75 E-Book/S 053-074
Hart, A. G., Bosley, H., Hooper, C., Perry, J., Sellors-Moore, J., Moore, O., & Goodenough, A. E. (2023) Assessing the accuracy of free automated plant identification applications. People and Nature. Early View.
Jaiswara, R., Sreebin, S., Monaal & Robillard, T. (2022) A new species of Indigryllus (Orthoptera, Gryllidae, Eneopterinae, Xenogryllini) from Kerala, India, with first data on acoustics and natural habitat. Zootaxa. 5205(6):532–546.
Kment, P. & van der Heyden, T. (2022) Zelus renardii (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae): first records from Croatia, Montenegro, and an accidental introduction to the Czech Republic. Heteroptera Poloniae – Acta Faunistica 16: 7–14.
Lantz, C.A., Leggatt, W., Bergman, J.L., Fordyce, A., Page, C., Mesaglio, T. &Ainsworth, T.D. (2022) Will daytime community calcification reflect reef accretion on future, degraded coral reefs?. Biogeosciences 19, 891-906. [Project]
Maioglio A., Repetto, E.(2022) Nuova segnalazione di Saga pedo (Pallas, 1771) in provincia di Alessandria, Piemonte e relative osservazioni ecologiche (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). [New observation of Saga pedo (Pallas, 1771) in province of Alessandria, Piedmont, and related ecological observations (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae)]. Rivista Piemontese di Storia Naturale 43: 49-58. Abstract . Original observation
McMullin, R.T., and J.L. Allen. 2022. An assessment of data accuracy and best practice recommendations for observations of lichens and other taxonomically difficult taxa on iNaturalist. Botany 100(6). https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/cjb-2021-0160
Moles, AT, and ZA Xirocostas. (2022). Statistical power from the people. Nature Ecology & Evolution 6: 1802-1803.
Morefield, J.D., Neubauer, D.M., Forsell, T., Matson, S., Taylor, D.W., DeDecker, M. (2022) Working checklist of the vascular flora of the White Mountains, California and Nevada, updated 8 July 2022. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.30206.87361.
Noël F, Gregory SJ & Agapakis G (2022) Armadillidium arcangelii Strouhal, 1929 (Isopoda: Oniscidea): a step towards the conquest of Europe? Bulletin of the British Myriapod & Isopod Group 34: 72–82.
Parys KA, Davis KA, James ST, Davis JB, Tyler H, Griswold T (2022) First report of a gynandromorph of Florilegus condignus (Cresson, 1878) (Hymenoptera, Apidae), with notes on phenology and abundance. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 89: 233-244. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.89.75857
Polašek O, Bellingan T, van Noort S (2022) A new species of paper wasp from the genus Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville from South Africa (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 90: 213–222. https://jhr.pensoft.net/article/81581/
[original observation]
Querner P, Szucsich N, Landsberger B, Erlacher S, Trebicki L, Grabowski M, Brimblecombe P (2022) Identification and Spread of the Ghost Silverfish (Ctenolepisma calvum) among Museums and Homes in Europe. Insects 13(9): 855
Rabanal FE, Correa C, Gargiulo M. (2022) End to uncertainty. Distribution extension of Alsodes valdiviensis Formas, Cuevas & Brieva, 2002 (Anura: Alsodidae) towards southern Chile confirms the presence of the genus on the island of Chiloé. Revista Latinoamericana de Herpetologia 5(2): 54–64. [Observation.]
Roberts, C. J., Vergés, A., Callaghan, C. T., Poore, A. G. B. (2022) Many cameras make light work: opportunistic photographs of rare species in iNaturalist complement structured surveys of reef fish to better understand species richness. Biodivers Conserv (2022).
Rosa, R.M., Cavallari, D.C. & Salvador, R.B. (2022) iNaturalist as a tool in the study of tropical molluscs. PLoS ONE 17: e0268048.
Rosa, R.M., Salvador, R.B., Teixeira, L., Bornschein, M.R. & Cavallari, D.C. (2022) The rapid expansion of the Jumping Snail Ovachlamys fulgens in Brazil. Diversity 14(10): 815.
Saldivar, J.A., Romero, A.N. & Rankin, E.E.W. (2022) Community science reveals high diversity of nectaring plants visited by Painted Lady butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in California sage scrub. Environmental Entomology nvac073.
Sexton, C. (2022) Common moth, “rare” larva: The Spotted Peppergrass Moth, Eustixia pupula Hübner 1823 (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). Southern Lepidopterists’ News 44(2):211-213. [Related observations.] [Related iNat journal post.]
Smith, G.B., Mitchell, A. and Mesaglio, T. (2022) Two new Australian silverfish (Zygentoma: Lepismatidae: Ctenolepismatinae and Nicoletiidae: Subnicoletiinae). Records of the Australian Museum, 74(2), 59–74. [Observation]
Szentivanyi, T. & Vincze, O. (2022) Tracking wildlife diseases using community science: an example through toad myiasis. European Journal of Wildlife Research 68:74
Tran, Theodore T., et al. (2022) Predicted threats to a native squirrel from two invading species based on citizen science data. Biol Invasions (2022).
Valkenburg T., Grosso-Silva JM. (2022). First record of the soft-winged flower beetle Protapalochrus flavolimbatus (Mulsant & Rey, 1853) (Coleoptera: Melyridae: Malachiinae) from Portugal. Arquivos Entomolóxicos 25: 367–370. Original observation
van der Heyden, T. (2022) Confirmation of the presence of Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1857 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) on the Canary Islands (Spain). Arquivos Entomolóxicos 25: 51.
van der Heyden, T. (2022) First record of Sastrapada baerensprungi (Stål, 1859) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Stenopodainae) in Croatia. Journal of the Heteroptera of Turkey 4(1): 56–57.
van der Heyden, T. (2022) Stenolemus novaki Horváth, 1888 (Hemiptera Reduviidae) in the autonomous communities of Andalusia and Madrid (Spain). Arquivos Entomolóxicos 25: 177-178.
van der Heyden, T. (2022) First record of Anisoscelis podalicus (BRAILOVSKY & MAYORGA, 1995) (Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Anisoscelini) in Nicaragua. Revista Nicaragüense de Entomología 282: 1-8.
van der Heyden, T. (2022) Ein Fund von Stephanitis takeyai DRAKE & MAA, 1955 (Heteroptera: Tingidae) in Schleswig-Holstein. Heteropteron 67: 16.
van der Heyden, T. (2022) First record of Leptoglossus talamancanus Brailovsky & Barrera, 1998 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae) for Honduras. Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay 26(2): 123-124.
van der Heyden, T. (2022) First records of Sphedanolestes pulchellus (Klug, 1830) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) in Morocco. Journal of the Heteroptera of Turkey 4(2): 129–131.
van der Heyden, T. (2022) First record of Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1857 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) in Bulgaria. Journal of the Heteroptera of Turkey 4(2): 139–140.
van der Heyden, T. & Lupoli, R. (2022) First record of Nemausus sordidatus (Stål, 1858) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Alydidae) from Madeira (Portugal). Arquivos Entomolóxicos 25: 331-332.
van der Heyden, T. (2022) First record of Nariscus spinosus (Burmeister, 1835) (Heteroptera: Alydidae) from Fuerteventura (Canary Islands, Spain). Arquivos Entomolóxicos 25: 371-372.
White, E.L., M. D. Schlesinger, and T.G. Howard. 2022. The Empire State Native Pollinator Survey(2017-2021). New York Natural Heritage Program, Albany, NY.
Wolf, S., Mahecha, M. D., Sabatini, F. M., Wirth, C., Bruelheide, B., Kattge, J., Moreno Martınez, A., Mora, K. & Kattenborn, T. (2022). Citizen science plant observations encode global trait patterns. Nature Ecology & Evolution.
. I knew that some of my photos get the research grade and have no problem with others using them if they allow where/who it came from but I never thought anyone that is actually a scientist or professional in whatever area actually does see them and decide to use them. Interesting. If mine are ever used, which how would I ever know, I’ll be proud to have been a part of something useful and knowledgeable.