Citizen science initiatives and the data they produce are increasingly common in ecology,
conservation and biodiversity monitoring. Although the quality of citizen science data has …

Climate change represents one of the most critical threats to biodiversity with far-reaching
consequences for species interactions, the functioning of ecosystems, or the assembly of …

The availability of citizen science data has resulted in growing applications in biodiversity
science. One widely used platform, iNaturalist, provides millions of digitally vouchered …

Being able to identify plant species is an important factor for understanding biodiversity and
its change due to natural and anthropogenic drivers. We discuss the freely available Flora …

iNaturalist has the potential to be an extremely rich source of organismal occurrence data.
Launched in 2008, it now contains over 150 million uploaded observations as of May 2023 …

Biodiversity community science projects are growing rapidly in popularity. The enormous
amounts of data generated by these programs are transforming how we conduct ecological …

Plant phenology research has surged in recent decades, in part due to interest in
phenological sensitivity to climate change and the vital role phenology plays in ecology …

The photographic record is increasingly becoming an important biodiversity resource for
primary research and conservation monitoring. However, globally, there are important gaps …

Abstract Background The" Flora of Russia" project on iNaturalist brought together
professional scientists and amateur naturalists from all over the country. Over 10,000 people …

Rapidly increasing resources of citizen science databases (CS) collecting information on
species occurrence are increasingly useful as a data source for global biodiversity research …