Thomas Mesaglio

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a perspective on three frontiers of citizen science research, areas that to date have had minimal scientific exploration but that they believe deserve greater attention as they present substantial opportunities for the future of biodiversity research: sampling the undersampled, capitalizing on citizen science's unique ability to sample poorly sampled taxa and regions of the world, reducing taxonomic and spatial biases in global biodiversity data sets; estimating abundance and density in space and time, develop techniques to derive taxon-specific densities from presence or absence and presence-only data; and capital

TL;DR: The history of iNaturalist from an Australian perspective, and summarise, taxonomically, temporally and spatially, Australian biodiversity data contributed to the platform is discussed in this paper.

TL;DR: A citizen science project, hosted through iNaturalist, launched shortly after the 2019-2020 bushfire season in eastern Australia, rapidly provided accurate data on fire severity, relevant to future recovery and delivered data on a wide range of biodiversity responses at a scale that matched the geographic extent of these fires.

TL;DR: The iNaturalist project as discussed by the authors collected the first known photographs of rare taxa from the Tropics, with over 90% of these coming from the tropics, and Theclinae, Riodininae and Satyrinae the most observed subfamilies.

TL;DR: This study examines community succession, growth rates and isotopic composition in Lepas and their associated biofouling communities in coastal waters of eastern Australia and reports a new maximum growth rate and growth rates for any species of Lepas faster than 1 mm day−1, which have important applications for estimating drift duration and trajectories of marine debris.