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- Urbanization is impacting biodiversity globally, making baseline data essential for understanding these changes.
- The study focused on documenting the biodiversity of Cedar Lake in Eastern Iowa, which lacked prior data, before its renovation for human recreation.
- Using citizen science through iNaturalist and BioBlitz events, the researchers found that the lake's biodiversity metrics were more diverse in just one year than data collected over the past decade.
Article Abstract
Changes to biodiversity from urbanization are occurring worldwide, and baseline data is vital to document the magnitude and direction of these alterations. We set out to document the biodiversity of an urban lake in Eastern Iowa that was devoid of baseline data prior to a renovation project that will convert the site into a major area for human recreation. Throughout the course of one year, we studied the biodiversity at Cedar Lake utilizing the citizen-science application iNaturalist coupled with semi-structured BioBlitz events, which we compared to previous opportunistic observations at the site. From a semi-structured approach to document biodiversity with citizen science, our analyses revealed more diverse community metrics over a shorter period compared to more than a decade of prior observations.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11032101 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17209 | DOI Listing |
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