I’ve just edited the wiki to add Iwanicki and Helm, 2025. I copied the citation format suggested in the paper, which is slightly different that the format for most of the other citations. I hope that’s okay.
As both an observer and identifier of this species (Velella velella), and then as a volunteer on this Zooniverse project, I’m particularly excited to see this published. The authors say they have submitted a manuscript with a comprehensive analysis using this data, which I look forward to.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.1772
Using iNat butterfly data via GBIF
Hello everyone,
I’m pleased to share a newly published article that highlights the valuable contributions of iNaturalist data to scientific research.
The study, “Mapping urban biodiversity: contributions of citizen science to the monitoring of the common sloth Bradypus variegatus”, utilized iNaturalist observations from 2002 to 2024 to analyze the temporal and spatial distribution of biodiversity and the common sloth in the urban area of João Pessoa, Brazil.
Full Citation & Link:
Freitas, N. D. A., & Paz, M. P. (2025). Mapeando a biodiversidade urbana: contribuições da ciência cidadã para o monitoramento da preguiça-comum Bradypus variegatus Schinz, 1825. Scientia Plena, 21(9), 092401.
https://scientiaplena.org.br/sp/article/view/8393
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14808/sci.plena.2025.092401
Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/17435411
Jansen, N & Nick Pruijn, Martin Mayer (2024) Citizen Observations Shed New Light on Geographic Variation in Colour Polymorphism of a Widespread Reptile
Just a note that the first post in this thread is a wiki, so you all should be able to edit it and put additions there. I don’t think the new posts are bad as it revives the thread for people who might not have seen it or have forgotten about it, but I think the idea is to have the first post serve as a master list.
How about 2026? (I have one to add. Not sure how to make a wiki post myself. I’m sure it’s easy enough…)
I’ll try making a wiki post of my own. We’ll see!
Lengyel, A. (2025). Florisztikai adatok Észak-Pest és Nyugat-Nógrád vármegyék térségéből [Floristic records from northern Pest and western Nógrád counties]. Kitaibelia, 30(2), 193–202. https://doi.org/10.17542/kit.30.079 [in Hungarian with English summary]
Askevold, I.S., 2024. Plateumaris schaefferi Askevold (Coleoptera:Chrysomelidae: Donaciinae): records of this rarely observed multicolored species from iNaturalist, with a new state secord for Vermont. The Coleopterists Bulletin,78(3) : 388-390. doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-78.3.388
Could a moderator update the title to include 2026?
Also, I wonder whether it is worth creating more of these wikis when we hit the word limit, or whether existing resources (such as GBIF) provide sufficient access and visibility to papers published with iNat data?
there’s this https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/published-papers-that-use-inaturalist-data-wiki-5-2026-2027/75970
And I thought these lists just include papers not already in GBIF?
Oh, great, I had not seen that, thanks, cassi!
In that case, best leave 2024-2025 as it is. Yes, the idea was to just list papers not already in GBIF. I am grateful that somebody else has taken up the continuation of the wiki, as I did not have the bandwidth.