Published papers that use iNaturalist data - wiki 4 (2024)

This is a fourth wiki for providing a user-curated list of scientific publications that use iNaturalist data, covering the year 2024. For previous wikis see:

Publications in 2010–2019
Publications in 2020–2021
Publications in 2022–2023

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 alphabetical order by first author. These multiple wikis have been created, rather than just one, because of word limits for a single post.

These wikis are intended to complement the list of 3000+ journal articles that cite GBIF data including iNaturalist exports (summary of citations of all kinds here) so papers already on that list need not be included here.

2024

Díaz-Calafat, J., Jaume-Ramis, S., Soacha, K., Álvarez, A., & Piera, J. Revealing biases in insect observations: A comparative analysis between academic and citizen science data. Plos one, 19(7), e0305757.

Douch, J.K., Vaughan, L.J., Cooper, J.A., Holmes, G.D., Robinson, R., Stefani, F., Idnurm, A. & May, T.W (2024) Taxonomic revision of fleshy species of Hydnellum, Neosarcodon , and Sarcodon (Thelephorales) from Australasia. Mycologia 1–28.

D.Groenendijk & M. Koning 2024. De glaskruidsnuituil Hypena lividalis nieuw voor Nederland (Lepidoptera: Erebidae). – NFM 62: 17-21

Earley, N.G. (2024) First record in British Columbia for the dandelion gall wasp, Phanacis taraxaci (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Phanacidini). Specimen 31: 1–2.

Filipi Miranda Soares, Luís Ferreira Pires, Maria Carolina Garcia, Lidio Coradin, Natalia Pirani Ghilardi-Lopes, Rubens Rangel Silva, Aline Martins de Carvalho, Anand Gavai, Yamine Bouzembrak, Benildes Coura Moreira dos Santos Maculan, Sheina Koffler, Uiara Bandineli Montedo, Debora Pignatari Drucker, Raquel Santiago, Maria Clara Peres de Carvalho, Ana Carolina da Silva Lima, Hillary Dandara Elias Gabriel, Stephanie Gabriele Mendonça de França, Karoline Reis de Almeida, Bárbara Junqueira dos Santos, Antonio Mauro Saraiva. Citizen science data on urban forageable plants: a case study in Brazil, Gigabyte, 2024.

Filipi Miranda Soares, Luís Ferreira Pires, Maria Carolina Garcia, Yamine Bouzembrak, Lidio Coradin, Natalia Pirani Ghilardi-Lopes, Rubens Rangel Silva, Aline Martins de Carvalho, Benildes Coura Moreira dos Santos Maculan, Sheina Koffler, Uiara Bandineli Montedo, Debora Pignatari Drucker, Raquel Santiago, Anand Gavai, Maria Clara Peres de Carvalho, Ana Carolina da Silva Lima, Hillary Dandara Elias Gabriel, Stephanie Gabriele Mendonça de França, Karoline Reis de Almeida, Bárbara Junqueira dos Santos, Antonio Mauro Saraiva. Leveraging citizen science for monitoring urban forageable plants, GigaScience , Volume 13, 2024.

Fischer, G. A., de Oliveira, P. F., & Crispino, E. B. (2024) There and Back Again: On the Homonymy, Solution and Re-Homonymy of Pampa Walker 1854 (Hexapoda: Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae) and Pampa Reichenbach, 1854 (Aves: Apodiformes: Trochilidae) Zootaxa. 5501 (4): 593–595

Franzini, G., Constantin, R., Valkenburg, 2024. A new species of the genus Attalus Erichson, 1840 from Algarve (Portugal) discovered by citizen science (Coleoptera, Melyridae, Malachiinae). Arquivos Entomolóxicos 30, 191–197. Paper: https://www.aegaweb.com/arquivos_entomoloxicos/ae30_2024_franzini_et_al_new_species_genus_attalus_algarve_portugal_citizen_science_coleoptera_melyridae.pdf . Observations: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1587452

Grattarola, F., Rodríguez-Tricot, L., Zarucki, M. et al. (in press) Status of the invasion of Carpobrotus edulis in Uruguay based on citizen science records. Biol Invasions

Grosso-Silva, J.M., van der Heyden, T., Valkenburg, T., da Silva, L.P., Gosseries, A. & da Conceição, N.F.P. (2024) Leptopus hispanus Rambur, 1840 (Hemiptera: Leptopodidae:
Leptopodinae), new species for Portugal
. Arquivos Entomolóxicos 28: 231-234.

Kusaka CM, Utsumi KL, Cordes JE, Barley AJ, Thomson RC, Livo LJ, Walker JM. (2024) Aspidoscelis velox (Plateau Striped Whiptail) in Jefferson County, Oregon, USA: Persistence of an introduced triploid parthenogenetic species of lizard. Western Wildlife 11:42-49.

Lupoli, R. & van der Heyden, T. (2024) Review of Eurydema Laporte, 1832 species from Macaronesia and new record of Eurydema ventralis Kolenati, 1846 (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in Madeira (Portugal). Arquivos Entomolóxicos 30: 55-57.

Palma, E., Mata, L., Cohen, K., Evans, D., Gandy, B., Gaskell, N., Hatchman, H., Mezzetti, A., Neumann, D., O’Keefe, J., Shaw, A., Wells, M., Williams, L., Hahs, A.K. 2024. The city nature challenge: A global citizen science phenomenon contributing to biodiversity knowledge and informing local government practices. BioScience 74(4):290-299.

Perrie, L.R., Shepherd L.D. (in press) Naturalisation of the tree of love Aichryson laxum (Crassulaceae) and its implications for biosecurity surveillance in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany. [observations]

Pietzsch C. & Jentzsch M. : Erster Nachweis von GOEDELs Raubwanze Nagusta goedelii (KOLENATI, 1857) aus Sachsen. Heteropteron 73: 28-30 [observation]

Pintar, M.R. 2024. New records and notes on the distribution of aquatic insects (Coleoptera, Hemiptera) in southeastern Arizona. Western North American Naturalist 84 (4): 125–132. (full text) [this observation is included]

Pintar, M.R., N.D. Strickland, J.L. Kline, M.I. Cook, and N.J. Dorn. 2024. Asian swamp eels (Synbranchidae, Monopterus) in Florida: distribution, spread, and range of hydrologic tolerance over twenty-seven years (1997–2023). Aquatic Invasions 19 (2): 233–258.

Potgieter, Luke J., Cadotte, Marc W., Roets, Francois & Richardson, David M. Monitoring urban biological invasions using citizen science: the polyphagous shot hole borer (Euwallacea fornicatus) Journal of Pest Science. Published 27 January 2024

Romero-Rincon, J. & Douch, J.K. (2024) Description of a new species of Agathodesmus Silvestri, 1910 from Australia (Polydesmida, Haplodesmidae) with an urban distribution and a key to species in New South Wales. Australian Journal of Taxonomy 51: 1–9.

Rubio, L. & Braun, H. (2024) A new species of Conocephalus (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae) from Argentina with extraordinarily broad-band ultrasound calling song. Zootaxa 5437(1), 115–120. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5437.1.7 [Observations]

Schmidly, D.J., R.D Bradley, F.D. Yancey, II, and L.C. Bradley. 2024. Comprehensive annotated checklist of Recent land and marine mammals of Texas, 2024, with comments on their taxonomic and conservation status. Special Publications, Museum of Texas Tech University 80:1-76. https://www.depts.ttu.edu/nsrl/publications/downloads/SP80.pdf

Short, G., Smith, R., Harasti, D., & Claassens, L. (2024). A New Record and Species of Pygmy Pipehorse of the Genus Cylix (Teleostei, Syngnathidae) from South Africa and the African Continent. Ichthyology & Herpetology, 112(3), 315–327.

Spear, Dian, van Wilgen, Nicola J., Rebelo, Anthony G., Botha, Judith M. Collating biodiversity occurrence data for conservation Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 16 March 2023 [Short version in The Conversation: Cash-strapped conservationists in South Africa are struggling to collect biodiversity data – how to change that]

van der Heyden, T. (2024) New records of Heteroptera from the Canary Islands (Spain), XI. Arquivos Entomolóxicos 28: 119-122.

van der Heyden, T. (2024) New records of Heteroptera from the Canary Islands (Spain), XII. Arquivos Entomolóxicos 28: 199-200.

van der Heyden, T. (2024) First record of Eurydema dominulus (Scopoli, 1763)
(Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) for Greece
. Heteroptera Poloniae – Acta Faunistica 18: 3-4.

van der Heyden, T. (2024) First record of Lanchnophorus singalensis (Dohrn, 1860) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae) in Cyprus. Journal of the Heteroptera of Turkey 6(1): 7-8.

van der Heyden, T. (2024) First record of Oxycarenus lavaterae (Fabricius, 1787)
(Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) for Greece
. Heteroptera Poloniae – Acta Faunistica 18: 5-6.

van der Heyden, T. (2024) New records of Heteroptera from the Canary Islands (Spain), XIII. Arquivos Entomolóxicos 30: 37-38.

van der Heyden, T. (2024) New records of Heteroptera from the Canary Islands (Spain), XIV. Arquivos Entomolóxicos 30: 185.

van der Heyden, T. & Grosso-Silva, J.M. (2024) First record of Sastrapada baerensprungi (Stål, 1859) (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from Madeira (Portugal). Arquivos Entomolóxicos 28: 71.

van der Heyden, T. & Lupoli, R. (2024) First record of Andrallus spinidens (Fabricius, 1787) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae) for Cyprus. Heteroptera Poloniae – Acta Faunistica 18: 17-18.

van Nieukerken EJ, Davis DR, Swain SV, Epstein ME (2024) A new North American species of Etainia (Lepidoptera, Nepticulidae), feeding on Arbutus and Arctostaphylos species (Ericaceae). ZooKeys 1193: 195-218. [Species]

Zhang, L., Kang, J. and Kubo, T., 2024. Long-term monitoring of citizen science: driving factors and pandemic impacts. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology , pp.1-9.

Zotz G, Cascante-Marín A. (2024) Life on the wire – plant growth on power lines in the Americas. Diversity-Basel 16: 573.

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Has the number of such publications really grown as exponentially as this suggests? One wiki for the first ten years, then each subsequent wiki for only two years.

yes, without question

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We started the first wiki in 2019. The earliest paper on there is actually from 2013, but I put 2010 in the list because it would be good to have any publications that go back to the beginning of iNat, which actually has its origins in 2008. So you could say it’s for the first seven years, not ten, but perhaps someone will come up with an earlier publication.

Things really took off around 2020, and we hit the word count limit for the first wiki. If you follow the GBIF links you can see a graph of the numbers of publications citing the iNat data in GBIF per year, and while not quite exponential at this point, it shows a dramatic increase over the past decade.

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Adding a comment in part to keep this active, and I added this to the wiki. We used 87 records iNat in our paper mapping the historic distribution of swamp eels in Florida

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Hi, I would like to post the following publication that uses iNaturalist data, but am struggling how to do this.
Thanks,
Gerhard
Zotz G, Cascante-Marín A. 2024. Life on the wire –plant growth on power lines in the Americas. Diversity-Basel 16: 573.

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Added. You should see a button to “Edit” at the bottom of the post if you want to make any changes.

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Great idea! I was able to add a paper to the pre-2019 wiki pretty easily but for this 2024 wiki i don’t see an edit button at the bottom of the post.

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It’s there for me. Right where the “Reply” button would be on a non-Wiki thread.

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Fourreau, Chloé Julie Loïs; Macrina, Laura; Lalas, Jue Alef A.; Takahata, Ai; Koido, Tatsuki; Reimer, James D (2024). Supplementary material from “The Trojan Seahorse: Citizen science pictures of a seahorse harbour insights into the distribution and behaviour of a long-overlooked polychaete worm”. The Royal Society. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.7528965.v2
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.1780

Researchers checking iNaturalist photos found a worm last reported in 1956.

Brief summary: https://www.iflscience.com/worm-lost-for-68-years-has-been-photobombing-seahorses-this-whole-time-76765

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