Is there value to the community to post observation of species posted by me previously. I tend to just post one observation most of the time, but it seems repeat observations could be useful data.

[image] jasonhernandez74: Please don’t post 500 oaks. At least not all on the same day. Even if I could identify them all, I’m not going to, because too may of the same taxon in a row ticks me off, unless I am specifically filtering for that taxon. Well, it’s you, not other iders, I’d rather …

Maybe a feature of iNat would be that, if someone upload multiple observations of the same specimen, the IDs of each observation is shared with all the other observations? I mean, you only ID a specimen, not an observation. Is it possible?

If now you add links to other observations of obs. field, many iders will come through all and id them, though some people see it differently, I definitely would id all even if needed characteristics are not seen on every observation.

if the 500 oaks are IDed as Quercus by the observer - then identifiers can filter for that and (choose to) work thru them. I would also Mark as Reviewed, Next - if that came up on my Unknonwns.

Yes, I think it is, if recording Species in the wild, can give some idea of population numbers…particularly Fauna.

[image] smithsqrd: There are species of moths that may only fly 1 or 2 months out of the year, and other species that fly nearly year-round. That type of phenological information is greatly aided by repeat observations, especially if taken in survey or census model of documentation. That rais…

[image] garrytre: For instance, how do I document that there are still no feral goats 3 years after a drought ended? Take pictures of ‘no goats’? You set up a trip, put goats into goal species, and in the end trip shows you 0 goats found. [image] garrytre: What’s the purpose of iNat? P…

Lack of observations, when it really means lack of organisms, is important but it is hard to find a way to post it. Perhaps make a comment on the last observations of that species, saying something like, “As of [date] I have not seen another one in this area.” And or include a note on all the vege…

Yeah, i doubt iNat will ever adopt measures of absence. It is very hard to track this sort of data even in academic-level ecology studies, especially with animals that roam around the landscape. Even with plants, with defined plots where we lie out a tape and note every species we can find, i am rel…

Right, you can’t take lack of observations as a fact of absence, humans on iNat are rare, we can’t ask to observe larches in taiga at the same grid as pigeons in the city, but even big cities can lack observers and thus lack observations of even common species (and there’re those species that don’t …

Reobservations…is it useful to post observations of species I have posted previously?

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Reobservations…is it useful to post observations of species I have posted previously?

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