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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"iNaturalist"”.
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Documenting plant biodiversity at the EMU-owned Parsons Center for Arts and Sciences
… three images per species are also available on iNaturalist . The Consortium and iNaturalist databases are publicly available and provide georeferenced locations for each plant. One hundred seventy-one plant species (in 137 genera and 61 families) were documented and identified, representing …
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The Alydidae (Broad-Headed Bugs) of Virginia and Their Pest Management in Edamame
… and photographs from the social network iNaturalist. By manually checking iNaturalist identifications of broad-headed bugs using a key, I was able to determine that iNaturalist is 96% accurate at identifying North American broad-headed bugs to species. Through the combination of museum, …
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Engaging reality: examining how mixed reality mobile apps and games facilitate sense of place development for a more engaged citizenry
… twelve users of either Pokémon Go, Ingress, or iNaturalist were interviewed and their experience of place was analyzed. All of the apps required users to spend time in place in order to use them, a key part of sense of place development. The game apps encouraged exploration, spending time in …
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A reevalution of Tennessee’s invasive plant species using SERNEC and Maximum Entropy species distribution models
… specimen records. We use data from SERNEC and iNaturalist to model the current and potential distribution of 24 Tennessee Invasive Plant Council ranked species in Tennessee. In the end, a combination of these online sources as well as species distribution models are used to propose a layout for …
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Parasitism of Scarabaeidae by Parasitoid Flies in British Columbia and Western USA: Informing Biological Control Programs Against Popillia japonica with Crowd-sourced Records of Non-target Scarab Beetles
… and phylogenetic characteristics. Observed in iNaturalist were 111 species from eight scarab subfamilies. Only 17 scarabs were observed with structures resembling parasitoid eggs present. I categorized observed eggs into groups based on morphological characteristics; nine were categorized into …
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Science, Community, and Culture: A Holistic Approach to Ecological Research and Education
… standardized nation-wide camera trap survey, and iNaturalist, an online community science platform, to create species distribution models and hands-on ecology lessons. My results demonstrate that integrated SDMs do produce informative predictions of the environmental factors that influence species …
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Integrated approaches for monitoring sharks: Leveraging machine learning, big data, and molecular biology
… network (Instagram, Flickr) and open source (iNaturalist and Global Biodiversity Information Facility) posts and >600k opportunistic shark observations. By pairing automated classification with effort-standardized statistical models, we derived species-specific abundance indices that revealed …
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Improved Out-of-Distribution Detection Using Segmented Images and Prompt-Only Text Reasoning
… datasets, including ImageNet, NINCO, SSB-Hard, iNaturalist, Textures, OpenImage-O, Places365, Species, and SUN. In particular, OOD detection performance on near-OOD datasets is shown to significantly improve. The second approach utilizes the inherent knowledge and reasoning capabilities in large …