Published papers that use iNaturalist data - wiki

[deboas]

The aim of this wiki is to provide a user-curated list of scientific publications that use iNaturalist data (from this discussion. Please add to it, 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.

This is intended to complement the list of papers that cite GBIF data including iNaturalist exports so papers already on that list need not be included here.

2020

Barve, V., L. Brenskelle, D., Daijiang, B. Stucky, N. Barve, M. Hantak, B. McLean, D. Paluh, J. Oswald, M. Belitz, R. A. Folk, & R. P. Guralnick (2020) Methods for broad-scale plant phenology assessments using citizen scientists’ photographs. Applications in Plant Sciences 8 (1): e11315

Breanna J. Putman, Riley Williams, Enjie Li, Gregory B. Pauly (2020) The Power of Citizen Science to Quantify Ecological Risks in Cities BioRxiv preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.26.920124 .

Lehtinen, R. M., Carlson, B. M., Hamm, A. R., Riley, A. G., Mullin, M. M., & Gray, W. J. (2020) Dispatches from the neighborhood watch: Using citizen science and field survey data to document color morph frequency in space and time. Ecology and Evolution 10(3): 1526-1538

Oficialdegui, Francisco J., Sanchez, Marta I., Clavero, Miguel (2020) One century away from home: how the red swamp crayfish took over the world [PDF]

Reith, M. (2020) Rediscovery of Gesneria brachysepala Urb. & Ekman. Gesneriads, the Journal for Gesneriad Growers. Vol.70 Nr.1
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/28268170

van der Heyden, T. (2020) First record of Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann, 1910 in Guatemala (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Coreidae). Boletín de la Asociación española de Entomología 44(1-2): 00-00.

Wilson, Joseph S.; Pan, Aaron D.; General, David Emmanual M.; Koch, Jonathan B. (2020) More eyes on the prize: an observation of a very rare, threatened species of Philippine Bumble bee, Bombus irisanensis, on iNaturalist and the importance of citizen science in conservation biology. Journal of Insect Conservation [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/27141116 and https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/33270208]

2019

Brailovsky, H. & van der Heyden, T. (2019) New distributional notes and key to the known species of Leptoglossus Guérin-Méneville from Guatemala (Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Anisoscelini). Revista Chilena de Entomología 45(1): 175-180.

Cannings, R. A., Ehlers, T., Manweiler, A., Kohler, T., Hayes, E., & Knopp, D. (2019). Promachus dimidiatus Curran (Diptera: Asilidae): a robber fly genus and species new to British Columbia. Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia , 116 , 59-63. [observation]

De Roux, J. M., E. Noguera-Urbano & H. Ramírez-Chaves (2019) The vulnerable colombian weasel Mustela felipei (Carnivora): new record from Colombia and a review of its distribution in protected areas. Therya 10: 10.12933/therya-19-776 [Observation]

Erickson, R.A. & Burt, W.G. (2019). Additional information on a nonnative whiptail population (Aspidoscelis flagellicauda/sonorae complex) in suburban Orange County, California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences , 118, 76–78. [Observations]

Jain, A., S. K. M. Chan, M. Soh & L. Chow (2019) Rediscovery of the orange gull butterfly, Cepora iudith malaya, in Singapore. Singapore Biodiversity Records 2019: 22–23. [Observations]

Martoni, F. & K. F. Armstrong (2019) Acizzia errabunda sp. nov. and Ctenarytaina insularis sp. nov.: Descriptions of two new species of psyllids (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) discovered on exotic host plants in New Zealand. PLoS ONE 14: e0214220. [Observations: Acizzia, Ctenarytaina]

Moore, M. P., C. Lis, L. Gherghel, & R. A. Martin (2019) [ Temperature shapes the costs, benefits and geographic diversification of sexual coloration in a dragonfly] ( https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13200). Ecology Letters 22(3): 437-446.

Pavlović, Marko. (2019) “Egyptian locust (Anacridium aegyptium) (Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae) in the Pannonian part of Croatia.” Articulata 34: 95–100

Richart, C. H., L. F. Chichester, B. Boyer, & T. A. Pearce (2018) Rediscovery of the Southern California Endemic American Keeled Slug Anadenulus cockerelli (Hemphill, 1890) after a 68-Year Hiatus. Journal of Natural History, 2018, 1–17. Observations: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9505954 | https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9505952 | https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5179160 | https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5198781 | https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9505951 | https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2648495

Rowley, J. J. L., C. T. Callaghan,T. Cutajar, C. Portway, K. Potter, S. Mahony, D. F. Trembath, P. Flemons & A. Woods (2019) FrogID: citizen scientists provide validated biodiversity data on frogs of Australia. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 14(1): 155–170. [2017 Observations]

van der Heyden, T. (2019): First record of Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann, 1910 (Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Anisoscelini) in Algeria. Revista Gaditana de Entomología X(1): 159–161.

van der Heyden, T. (2019) First record of Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann (Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Anisoscelini) in Costa Rica. Revista Chilena de Entomología 45(1): 51–53. [Observation]

van der Heyden, T. (2019) New data on the biology and distribution of Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann, 1910 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Anisoscelini). Arquivos Entomolóxicos 21: 31-32.

van der Heyden, T. (2019) First record of Microtomus cinctipes (Stål) (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Hammacerinae) in Panama and a recent record of the species in Ecuador. Revista Chilena de Entomología 45(2): 201-203.

van der Heyden, T. (2019) First record of Microtomus luctuosus (Stål) (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Hammacerinae) in Honduras. Revista Chilena de Entomología 45(2): 253-255.

van der Heyden, T. (2019) First records of Dryadocoris apicalis (Herrich-Schäffer) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae: Antestiini) for Albania. Revista Chilena de Entomología 45(3): 331-333.

van der Heyden, T. (2019) Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann (Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Anisoscelini) in Israel. Revista Chilena de Entomología 45(3): 435-437.

van der Heyden, T. (2019) First record of Corythauma ayyari (Drake) (Heteroptera: Tingidae) in Monaco. Revista Chilena de Entomología 45(4): 579-581.

van der Heyden, T. (2019) First record of Spilostethus furcula (Herrich-Schäffer, 1850) (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) in Greece. Revista gaditana de Entomología X(1): 139-140.

van der Heyden, T. (2019) Recent records of Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann, 1910 on the Balearic Islands (Spain) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Anisoscelini). Arquivos Entomolóxicos 21: 193-194.

2018

Atha, D. (2018) First report of Rumex cristatus (Polygonaceae) for New York State. Phytoneuron 48: 1–3. [Observation]

Atha, D. & B. Boom (2018) State of New York City’s Plants 2018. The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York. [Observations]

Atha, D., R.V. Alvarez & K. Chaya (2018) First report of Sagina apetala (Caryophyllaceae) for New York. Phytoneuron 34: 1–2. [Observations]

Atha, D., D. Wijesinghe & V. Lazzeri (2018) First report of Stellaria pallida (Caryophyllaceae) for New York State. Phytoneuron 64: 1–8. [Observations]

Barbato, J. & C. Thawley (2018) Geographic distribution: Anolis distichus (Bark Anole). Herpetological Review 49(4): 714. [Observation]

Campbell N., C. Thawley & J. T. Stroud (2018) Anolis cristatellus (Puerto Rican Crested Anole). Cannibalism. Herpetological Review 49: 115–116. [Observation]

Schmidt, B. C. (2018) Cryptic species among bumblebee mimics: an unrecognized Hemaris hawkmoth (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) in eastern North America. Zootaxa 4399(1): 32-48. [Observations: 1 2]

Seehausen, M., Pinto, R. M. S., Trainor, C. R. & Lopes, J. P. (2018) Further records of Odonata from Timor Island, with the first photographs of living Nososticta impercepta (Odonata: Platycnemididae) and additional records from Rote and Romang Islands. Faunistic Studies in Southeast Asian and Pacific Island Odonata 25: 1–73. [Timor-Leste observations]

Trageser, S. J., A. Wiscovitch & J. K. Foon (2018) Discovery of Myxostoma petiverianum Wood, 1828 (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoroidea: Cyclophoridae) on Hòn Cau, Vietnam. The Festivus 50(2): 110–113. [Observation]

van der Heyden, T. (2018) A male of Turdus merula (Linnaeus, 1758) showing an interesting colour aberration (Passeriformes: Turdidae). BV news Publicaciones Científicas 7(97): 124-127.

van der Heyden, T. (2018) Recent records of Tongorma Kirkaldy (Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Phyllomorphini) from Botswana and Zambia. Revista Chilena de Entomología 44(3): 303-305.

van der Heyden, T. (2018) First record of Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann (Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Anisoscelini) in Albania. Revista Chilena de Entomología 44(3): 355-356.

van der Heyden, T. (2018) First record of Hierodula transcaucasica Brunner von Wattenwyl (Mantodea: Mantidae: Mantinae: Paramantini) in Albania. Revista Chilena de Entomología 44(4): 407-409.

van der Heyden, T. (2018) New data on the distribution of Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann (Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Anisoscelini), including the first record of the species in Georgia. Revista Chilena de Entomología 44(4): 433-435.

van der Heyden, T. (2018) First record of Zelus renardii Kolenati (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) in Israel. Revista Chilena de Entomología 44(4): 463-465.

Vásquez-Restrepo, J. D. & Y. Lapwong (2018) Confirming the presence of a fourth species of non-native house gecko of the genus Hemidactylus Oken, 1817 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) in Colombia. Check List 14(4): 665. [Observation]

2017

Agarwal, M. (2017) First record of Dendronotus orientalis (Baba, 1932) (Nudibranchia: Dendronotidae) in the temperate Eastern Pacific. BioInvasions Records 6(2): 135–138. [Observation]

Atha, D., B. Boom, A. Thornbrough, J. Kurtz, L. McIntyre, M. Hagen, J.A. Schuler, L. Rohleder, S. J. Hewitt & J. Kelly (2017) Arum italicum (Araceae) is invasive in New York. Phytoneuron 31: 1–18. [Observations]

Center for Biological Diversity (2017) Petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the San Gabriel Chestnut Snail under the Endangered Species Act. Portland, Oregon. [Observations]

Hewitt, S. J. (2017) Additions to the marine mollusk checklist for the island of Saba, Leeward Islands, West Indies. Vita Malacologica 16: 40–43. [Observations: 1 2 3 4]

Pauly, G. B. & K. S. Delaney (2017) Late-season reproduction in Western Toads (Bufo boreas). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 116: 147–151. [Observation]

Reith, M. (2017) Piltdown in the Caribbean? A comparison of Kurt Johnson’s and Albert Schwartz’s contribution to the butterfly fauna of Hispaniola. Conference: IX Congreso de Biodiversidad Caribeña. Santo Domingo (República Dominicana). [Observations: Haiti, Dominican Republic]

Spear, D. M., G. B. Pauly & K. Kaiser (2017) Citizen science as a tool for augmenting museum collection data from urban areas. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 5: 86. [Project]

van der Heyden, T. (2017) Notes on Plinachtus imitator (Reuter, 1891), including the first records for Albania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Gonocerini). BV news Publicaciones Científicas 6(77): 68-73.

Yadav, S., V. Patil & V. A. Ismavel (2017) Report of Platythomisus octomaculatus (CL Koch, 1845) and Platythomisus sudeepi Biswas, 1977 from India (Araneae, Thomisidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 5: e10294. [Observation]

2016

Winkleman, R. S. & A. R. Backlin (2016) Geographic distribution: USA, California: Aspidoscelis flagellicauda/sonorae complex. Herpetological Review 47: 256–257. [Observation]

2015

Pauly, G. B., G. S. Yoshida, & R. Worrell (2015) Geographic distribution: USA, California: Hemidactylus garnotii. Herpetological Review 46(4): 569. [Observations]

Pollock, N.B., N. Howe, I. Irizarry, N. Lorusso, A. Kruger, K. Himmler & L. Struwe (2015) Personal BioBlitz: A New Way to Encourage Biodiversity Discovery and Knowledge in K-99 Education and Outreach BioScience 65(12): 1154–1164.

2013

Amezquita, A., R. Marquez, R. Medina, D. Mejia-Vargas, T. R. Kahn, G. Suarez & L. Mazariegos (2013) A new species of Andean poison frog, Andinobates (Anura: Dendrobatidae), from the northwestern Andes of Colombia. Zootaxa 3620(1): 163–178. [Observation]

[deboas]

I’m not sure if this is in the right category, so others please feel free to move or modify it as appropriate.

[carrieseltzer]

Thanks, @deboas. I’ve been meaning to start a wiki like this. There’s also this spreadsheet that has captured some publications. If anyone wants to start adding them to the wiki, go for it. I know I won’t be able to get to it today but wanted to get the link in here since it has some useful information.

[deboas]

Thanks, @deboas. I’ve been meaning to start a wiki like this. There’s also this spreadsheet that has captured some publications . If anyone wants to start adding them to the wiki, go for it.

I’ve started to add these, and for now the list is in alphabetical order by author. Please holler in these comments as the list grows if you would prefer to arrange it by year or some other system. Where there are discoveries without a publication yet, I haven’t included them.

[deboas]

I’ve now updated the publication list with everything from the spreadsheet (except those that have not yet resulted in a publication). I had to remove the user tags as it’s only possible to tag up to 10 users in one post, so it didn’t make sense to have some users tagged and others not. I also reorganised by year, as the list was starting to get quite long - this makes it easier to see the most recent articles.

[biosam]

There are many papers to add from 2019 alone, found simply by searching “iNaturalist” in Google Scholar. Some are based on individual observations, such as first records or rediscoveries in a state or country (e.g. Jain et al., 2019. Rediscovery of the orange gull butterfly, Cepora iudith malaya, in Singapore, and Van der Heyden, 2019. First record of Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann (Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Anisoscelini) in Costa Rica), while others glean trends from bulk analysis of observations (e.g. Rowley et al. 2019. FrogID: CItIzen ScientIsts Provide validated Biodiversity Data on Frogs of Australia, which notes “6% of the 892 photographic submissions of frogs from Australia in 2017 submitted to iNaturalist showed frogs being handled with bare hands” and “only 5%… of the submissions from Australia [were] identified to species in iNaturalist in 2017”). From casual browsing it looks like some iNaturalist observers are co-authors on papers, which is very nice. I think there’s a discussion to be had regarding the strengths and weaknesses of publishing based on citizen science photographs alone, and other ethical considerations, but I’ll leave that to a different time and place.

[deboas]

Great, thanks for that. I have added those three publications to the list. Feel free to add others if you have time and inclination, and/or to start a thread on the strengths and weaknesses of publishing based on photos - could be an interesting discussion!

[pileated]

Greetings y’all,

I am interested in this forum as I will soon be presenting (2019 World Congress of Malacology) and subsequently publishing a paper on the Molluscan Mycophagy project.

Please add our rediscovery of Anadenulus paper to this list that used iNaturalist data (send me a message for a PDF):

Richart, C. H., L. F. Chichester, B. Boyer, & T. A. Pearce (2018) Rediscovery of the Southern California Endemic American Keeled Slug Anadenulus cockerelli (Hemphill, 1890) after a 68-Year Hiatus. Journal of Natural History, 2018, 1–17. Observations: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9505954 | https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9505952 | https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5179160 | https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5198781 | https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9505951 | https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2648495

@deboas, in the first sentence of this forum you have “this discussion” written, and the text is blue, but there doesn’t appear to be a link associated with it. I would like to see that link. Perhaps it was closed after months of inactivity?

[tiwane]

@pileated, the top post is a Wiki, so anyone can edit it. Just click on “Edit” in the lower right-hand corner:

The link in the first post’s first paragraph has been fixed, there was an error in the markup code.

[tmvdh]

Hi,

there are several publications by me (Torsten van der Heyden) which could/should be added here as they mention iNaturalist data:

van der Heyden, T. (2017) Notes on Plinachtus imitator (Reuter, 1891), including the first records for Albania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Gonocerini). BV news Publicaciones Científicas 6(77): 68-73.

van der Heyden, T. (2018) A male of Turdus merula (Linnaeus, 1758) showing an interesting colour aberration (Passeriformes: Turdidae). BV news Publicaciones Científicas 7(97): 124-127.

van der Heyden, T. (2018) Recent records of Tongorma Kirkaldy (Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Phyllomorphini) from Botswana and Zambia. Revista Chilena de Entomología 44(3): 303-305.

van der Heyden, T. (2018) First record of Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann (Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Anisoscelini) in Albania. Revista Chilena de Entomología 44(3): 355-356.

van der Heyden, T. (2018) First record of Hierodula transcaucasica Brunner von Wattenwyl (Mantodea: Mantidae: Mantinae: Paramantini) in Albania. Revista Chilena de Entomología 44(4): 407-409.

van der Heyden, T. (2018) New data on the distribution of Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann (Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Anisoscelini), including the first record of the species in Georgia. Revista Chilena de Entomología 44(4): 433-435.

van der Heyden, T. (2018) First record of Zelus renardii Kolenati (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) in Israel. Revista Chilena de Entomología 44(4): 463-465.

van der Heyden, T. (2019) New data on the biology and distribution of Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann, 1910 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Anisoscelini). Arquivos Entomolóxicos 21: 31-32.

Brailovsky, H. & van der Heyden, T. (2019) New distributional notes and key to the known species of Leptoglossus Guérin-Méneville from Guatemala (Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Anisoscelini). Revista Chilena de Entomología 45(1): 175-180.

van der Heyden, T. (2019) First record of Microtomus cinctipes (Stål) (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Hammacerinae) in Panama and a recent record of the species in Ecuador. Revista Chilena de Entomología 45(2): 201-203.

van der Heyden, T. (2019) First record of Microtomus luctuosus (Stål) (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Hammacerinae) in Honduras. Revista Chilena de Entomología 45(2): 253-255.

van der Heyden, T. (2019) First records of Dryadocoris apicalis (Herrich-Schäffer) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae: Antestiini) for Albania. Revista Chilena de Entomología 45(3): 331-333.

van der Heyden, T. (2019) Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann (Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Anisoscelini) in Israel. Revista Chilena de Entomología 45(3): 435-437.

van der Heyden, T. (2019) First record of Corythauma ayyari (Drake) (Heteroptera: Tingidae) in Monaco. Revista Chilena de Entomología 45(4): 579-581.

van der Heyden, T. (2019) First record of Spilostethus furcula (Herrich-Schäffer, 1850) (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) in Greece. Revista gaditana de Entomología X(1): 139-140.

van der Heyden, T. (2019) Recent records of Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann, 1910 on the Balearic Islands (Spain) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Anisoscelini). Arquivos Entomolóxicos 21: 193-194.

All papers are available (as PDFs) on internet - but if you like to get one or more of them directly: Just let me know…

Best,

Torsten

[deboas]

Hi Torsten,

Brilliant, thank you! I have added these to the wiki. It should be editable by anyone, so please feel free to make any needed changes. If you have time to add links to the articles and relevant observations, even better.

Best,

Ben

[tmvdh]

Well, one more:

van der Heyden, T. (2019): First record of Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann, 1910 (Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Anisoscelini) in Algeria. – Revista gaditana de Entomología X(1): 159-161.

[ruidasilvapinto]

Hello there,
So I use iNaturalist and have co-authores a small paper with fellow Malte whom I got into iNaturalist. You can access the paper here. So the first ever photographs of living Nososticta impercepta were posted on iNat, that was reported on the paper along with several other records. Malte Seehausen (@mwnhseehausen) started using iNaturalist and since them I have managed to photograph the first living Indolestes lafaeci (some weeks ago) and I’m positive we will eventually publish an updated list with the species we have recorded in Timor-Leste since our first paper.

[deboas]

Thanks Rui! I added your paper and link to the list. You should be able to edit the wiki if you need to add or correct anything, or add any future publications.

[dkaposi]

I’m not sure how to format this for the wiki, but the Canadian Food Inspection Agency referenced an iNat blog post in documenting a new (invasive) moth for North America:

https://inspection.gc.ca/plant-health/plant-pests-invasive-species/insects/box-tree-moth/fact-sheet/eng/1552914498593/1552914498889

[tmvdh]

And another one:

van der Heyden, T. (2020) First record of Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann, 1910 in Guatemala (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Coreidae). Boletín de la Asociación española de Entomología, 44(1-2): 00-00.

[deboas]

Added, thanks!