300 species
The Hinterhof is home to at least 300 species! This is an astonishingly high diversity right in the middle of a Central European city, and from a survey area of only 1300 m2.
More than 250 (84%) are identified to species level, thanks to the iNat community and in particular to Donald Hobern, who provided IDs for most of the moths.
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And for those who are interested to know what's occurring in a garden of Copenhagen, Denmark, have a look at Donald Hobern's jaw-dropping list from Toppen!
I think there's loads of potential for interesting ecological research if a bunch of dedicated people would engage in similar projects.
The City of Braunschweig and the surrounding county has quite a diversity of habitats, and the city maintains some highly informative web pages on its conservation activities (all in German). At the bottom of this web page are links to a very extensive report, with inventories of numerous groups (which serve as a useful summary of the species pool around the Hinterhof):
www.braunschweig.de/leben/umwelt_naturschutz/natur/artenschutz/artenschutzkonzept.html
Nice done, as I understand its your backyard, yes?
Thanks, Artem! Yes, this is the place where we live.
Amazing project and amazing diversity that you were able to locate there!
Thanks, @ajott, I'm still amazed by this diversity and new species are still added at a pretty high rate without much effort.
Long impressed by your urban yard biodiversity, @jakob, I finally made my own project collecting years of observations: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/carrie-s-home-biodiversity
@aztekium_tutor has an even more impervious lot with amazing diversity! https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/casa
Cheers, Carrie, it seems yours is a Passiflora hotspot for some reason....
Do I get it right that @aztekium_tutor's place is pretty much concrete jungle with very little if any green?
PS: it would be really nice if the iNat team could come up with some sort of umbrella project to host all the individual yard projects!
The Passiflora incarnata I planted does seem to have plans for world domination... starting in my yard. But mostly I've made a lot of observations of it for phenology and recording the ripe fruits, and of the bees visiting the flowers. I just really love passionfruit.
Yeah, I heard @aztekium_tutor present about his "casa" project and it really is as urban as it looks! Hope Carlos can describe more :-)
As far as an umbrella project goes, I hesitate to commit staff to anything else that we could be a bottleneck on, but it would be fun to have an umbrella to compare them, so I made you and Carlos admins. I can't seem to add "casa" because there are so many projects that use it but maybe Carlos can. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/home-projects-umbrella
How cool - I didn't know that umbrella projects can include both new and old project types!
Hello amigos, thank you @carrieseltzer for mentioning me, and yes, @jakob, my home has a very small front and back yard, you would be really surprised, is just 7 meters front (is really a small square), there is a long and sad story behind this house, I will ell you later,
We started to take photos of everything moving in the front and back yard, and inside the house, there are 5 people living here, including me, dad, Lily my wife and two kids, which I have not been able to get them in to iNat :(
We have a messy garden type, so all kind of wildflowers and "weeds" are growing here, some are planted;I tend to take many pictures from the backyard light, which had been changed over this last years, what I think is we do live near the mountain with native vegetation like oak forest and pied-mont shrub, so I guess this kicks up the numbers
I was not aware I had a project, I just changed this to the new format.
If you want I can make a video call for you to see this small garden
I also added Zabdiel Peralta home, there are some new Home additions around here, so I might me adding some more!
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