For publications from 2024 onwards, please use the new wiki for that year 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 …

Here’s one from Singapore on Tropical Swallowtail moths Lyssa zampa. We concluded that: City lights act as population sinks for Tropical Swallowtail moths Lyssa zampa during their mass emergence which is likely to get worse by climate change. Unfortunately, this phenomenon also disfavors fitter in…

The Gaier and Resasco 2023 paper added above interestingly shows that iNat observations for a rare plant were more accurate than herbarium records and easier to identify issues with/correct…nice.

And we are about to add a new species from the Hoggar mountains in Algeria - since your example is both rare and high elevation. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/145970389

Robert W. Pemberton, Eduardo Escalona (2023) Spread and Distribution of the Naturalized Orchid Bee Euglossa dilemma in Florida Florida Entomologist, 106(1) :59-62. https://doi.org/10.1653/024.106.0110

Friesen, Chris & Y. Miles Zhang. 2021. Rose gall wasps (Cynipidae: Diplolepis) of Manitoba, including a new provincial record. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Manitoba. 77:52-60. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364811286_ROSE_GALL_WASPS_CYNIPIDAE_DIPLOLEPIS_OF_MANITOBA_INCLUDIN…

New one here! Black, E.N., Blair, J.D., Burg, K.R.L. van der, Marshall, K.E. Crowd-sourced observations of a polyphagous moth reveal evidence of allochronic speciation varying along a latitudinal gradient. PLOS ONE. 2023 Jul 13;18(7):e0288415. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288415

Added! Thank you, and congratulations on the paper. Note that you can also do this yourself with a wiki post. Just go to the main (first) post, scroll to the bottom of that post, and click on the Edit button.

Just added Identifying the identifiers: How iNaturalist facilitates collaborative, research-relevant data generation and why it matters for biodiversity science . Unfortunately it’s not open access but the primary author posted a Twitter thread with some takeaways, and you can contact iNat staff mem…

[image] tiwane: Unfortunately it’s not open access It’s freely downloadable from Research Gate https://www.researchgate.net/publication/372310054_Identifying_the_identifiers_How_iNaturalist_facilitates_collaborative_research-relevant_data_generation_and_why_it_matters_for_biodiversity_scienc…

Published papers that use iNaturalist data - wiki 3 (2022 and 2023)

General

deboas June 14, 2023, 6:41pm 28

Thank you! As it is from 2021, I added it to the previous wiki here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/published-papers-that-use-inaturalist-data-wiki-2-2020-and-2021

Topic		Replies	Views
Published papers that use iNaturalist data - wiki 1 (up to 2019) General	51	13687	March 11, 2021
Published papers that use iNaturalist data - wiki 4 (2024-2025) General	30	4321	April 23, 2026
Published papers that use iNaturalist data - wiki 2 (2020 and 2021) General	20	5943	July 16, 2025
Not an unbiased dataset General	36	4049	October 4, 2020
Published papers that use iNaturalist data - wiki 5 (2026 and 2027) General	5	646	July 31, 2026

Published papers that use iNaturalist data - wiki 3 (2022 and 2023)

Related topics