Crowdsourced Indicators of Flora and Fauna Species: Comparisons Between iNaturalist Records and Field Observations

Land, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 14(1), С. 169 - 169

Опубликована: Янв. 15, 2025

Cultural ecosystem services provide intangible benefits such as recreation and aesthetic enjoyment but are difficult to quantify compared provisioning or regulating services. Recent technologies offer alternative indicators, social media data, identify popular locations their features. This study demonstrates how large volumes of citizen science data can be analyzed reveal patterns human interactions with nature through unconventional, scalable methods. By applying spatial statistical methods, from the platform iNaturalist ground-truth visitation data. To minimize bias, records grouped by taxonomic information applied metropolitan area Seoul, South Korea (2005–2022). The included in were investigated using a standard global biodiversity database. results show effectively public preferences for scenic locations, offering novel approach mapping cultural when traditional unavailable. method highlights potential large-scale citizen-generated conservation, urban planning, policy development. However, challenges like bias user-generated content, uneven coverage, over- under-representation remain. Addressing these issues integrating additional metadata—such time visit, demographics, seasonal trends—could deeper insights into human–nature interactions. Overall, proposed opens up new possibilities non-traditional sources assess map services, providing valuable conservation efforts, environmental

Язык: Английский

Multiscale agrobiodiversity conservation: modeling epigaeic arthropod diversity with landscape heterogeneity and ecosystem services

Journal of Environmental Management, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 388, С. 126003 - 126003

Опубликована: Май 30, 2025

Язык: Английский