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ArticlePeerJ2024

Citizen science initiatives document biodiversity baselines at an urban lake.

Alyssah Ahern, Daniel F Hughes

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Article in PeerJ, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Alyssah AhernDepartment of Biology, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA, United States of America.
Daniel F HughesDepartment of Biology, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA, United States of America.

Funding

Coe College and Iowa Department of Natural Resources WDP Small Project Grant
6 · The paper itself

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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BiodiversityCitizen ScienceLakesUrbanizationHumansIowaBaseline dataBiodiversityCommunity compositionGlobal changeSpecies richnessUrban biodiversityUrban lake

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PMID38646485
PMCPMC11032101

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