i don’t think that’s right. there are millions of university students in Russia, and even if only a fraction of them are taking a biology course at any given time, there’s simply not enough Russian observers in the data to support that. there is some discourse about how the Russian iNat community has grown here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-is-now-the-second-largest-contributor-of-gbif-mediated-data-for-russia/10039.
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