Tag: citizen science

A Swiss study of shallow aquifers shows obligate groundwater crustaceans are detectable year-round while surface visitors peak seasonally, revealing that ...

A new ecological analysis finds that the exotic house gecko Hemidactylus mabouia did not outcompete Paraguay's native skink Notomabuya frenata, ...

A striking new mantidfly species with differently coloured wing spots has been described from Vietnam, its name chosen by listeners ...

An updated checklist of Calabria's birds records 363 species, a net gain of 43 since 1993, revealing the region as ...

The German Ichthyological Society and partners have opened the GfI-Fischartenatlas, an openly accessible platform consolidating more than 62,000 validated fish ...

A citizen science observation has led to the confirmation of a new subpopulation of the endangered Rocky Mountain Ridged Mussel ...

A newly launched journal outlines how environmental DNA, sensor networks, artificial intelligence, and community engagement could transform the monitoring and ...

A new review finds that half of Central America's whip-spider species live in Honduras, but only four of seven recorded ...

A 40-year citizen-science record documents 583 loggerhead sea turtle nesting events along Greece's Ionian coasts, revealing nesting activity far north ...

Field observations in southern Chile document the giant native land planarian Polycladus gayi using two distinct predatory tactics to subdue ...

A participatory research project in Austria empowered autistic citizen scientists to identify daily-life challenges and co-develop practical tools for more ...

When the Chornobyl accident spread radioactive fallout across Europe in 1986, official monitoring networks were quickly overwhelmed by public demand ...

A new survey of Switzerland's silverfish documents the first confirmed record of the invasive long-tailed silverfish, rediscovered populations of the ...

A new Frontiers collection reveals that nuclear emergency preparedness hinges on integrating models, cybersecurity, institutions, and citizens, not on technology ...

A 22-year dataset of more than 10,000 records reveals that southeastern Bulgaria's Sakar Mountains and Dervent Heights host roughly half ...

By mapping 275 horse fly bites onto a 3D model of the black caiman, researchers show that parasitic attacks cluster ...

Researchers argue that well-designed user interfaces, not raw technology, will decide whether serverless peer-to-peer databases can free ecological citizen science ...

University of Michigan researchers show that large language models like Claude and ChatGPT can mine millions of comments on citizen-science ...

A landmark analysis of five national monitoring schemes reveals rural hedgehog numbers in Britain have fallen by up to 70 ...

A new citizen science project called Who Eats Whom has turned thousands of iNaturalist photographs into a searchable global food ...