One of my geeks is to find new ways to use iNat data to teach science concepts. I created a Comparative Biodiversity umbrella project to compare the biodiversity of the Arctic with the Tropical rainforest. I try to keep the number of observations similar so students can better see the differences i…

This is a neat idea. It’s clever to choose areas with comparable numbers of observations. Although there are some issues in making the comparison, the issues themselves are interesting. The students will notice right away that the geographic areas are not equal, but how different are they? Time to…

All good points and ones I was going to write. It also might be worth pointing out the difference between biodiversity and biomass. There are situations where an area is high biodiversity and low biomass (deserts are often an example of this), and situations where an area may have high biomass but…

This is a cool idea, I’m wondering how you’ve developed it? I tried to compare biodiversity of equal-sized areas: http://weltanschuuang.blogspot.com/2022/09/where-is-most-biodiverse.html But the results are very dependent on whether I “correct” for total observations (as an index of observing eff…

[image] conorflynn: This is a cool idea, I’m wondering how you’ve developed it? Oh goodness. I totally missed this. Sorry about the 18 months response time. This idea pretty much comes from brainstorming different ways to use iNaturalist data to teach. I want to change the paradigm about usi…

Using iNat to teach comparative biodiversity

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DianaStuder January 18, 2022, 12:01pm 4

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Using iNat to teach comparative biodiversity

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