Help - please push Need ID to Research Grade

Emily Morris is doing a master’s thesis at the University of Cambridge, focusing on improvements to species distribution models for monitoring biodiversity. She is particularly interested in occurrence data from 2015 onwards due to the other variables she will be using during modelling (i.e. satellite and remote data).

She would love to use our Proteaceae data, but will only deal with Research Grade observations.
We need volunteers please to check the data and get them to research grade if possible.

This means we have 6000 observationsthat need to be confirmed or re-evaluated.

Please help here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?order_by=random&verifiable=any&project_id=131416&place_id=any
(you might find it easier to do genus, by genus: just put in the genus into the taxon box of the filter bar.)
((forgotten how to use the ID/curation tool: short refresher here: https://vimeo.com/246153496)

No need to flag me: I have been through them already. Just leave a comment if you think I can assist and I will see it.

• Please mark up any planted plants as "cultivated/captive"
• For observations of different species on different photographs, please add the project https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/multiple-species-per-observation and identify as "Life" (it is OK to have lots of species on one photo!)
• Please feel free to query an identification that you dont agree with.

Can we aim for getting this cleared by the end of February?

Your help will be gratefully appreciated.

Thanks
Tony

We would also like subspecies identified. These can be done here:

Protea: 130 observations
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?place_id=113055&quality_grade=needs_id%2Cresearch%2Ccasual&lrank=species&taxon_ids=442611,129721,428528,521002
Leucadendron: 86 observations
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?place_id=113055&quality_grade=needs_id%2Cresearch%2Ccasual&lrank=species&taxon_ids=322651,589066,570584,568455,589071,563598
Other:620 observations
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?place_id=113055&quality_grade=needs_id%2Cresearch%2Ccasual&lrank=species&taxon_ids=119196,583692,320039,460165,589136,569228

Posted on February 9, 2023 11:39 AM by tonyrebelo