A major milestone––Who says New Yorkers don't love Nature? One half million plants, animals and fungi is a lot of affection! Five hundred thousand observations in just four years is pretty remarkable. How does that compare to other urban areas? Climate, total area, population, regional biodiversity, and other factors make direct comparisons difficult. But just for fun... Our neighbors up the coast in the Greater Boston Area (GBA) are also doing well with 480,000 observations. The GBA is four times the size of NYC, but has about half the population. On the opposite coast, the San Francisco Biodiversity Project, home of iNaturalist, has "just" over 211,000 observations. When will New York City reach 1 million observations? The charts and graphs here provide some clues. |
The Chipmunk did it!––Congratulations to Elliotte Rusty Harold (@elharo) and the Eastern Chipmunk for getting us over the half-million mark. When not laboring in his secret identity of a mild-mannered software developer, Elliotte Rusty Harold watches birds, photographs insects, and writes stories. His short fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Crossed Genres, Daily Science Fiction, and numerous anthologies. He’s also authored over twenty non-fiction books, most recently Java Network Programming, 4th edition, and JavaMail API, both from O’Reilly. His house is Ravenclaw. The Chipmunk, when not foraging for acorns, fungi and berries, is busy enlarging its underground burrow, making room for winter food stores and a growing family. |
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Way to go @susanhewitt! And thank you, @danielatha for the awesome statistics.
I could not do it with our your help @srall!
I still hope we can get out to Staten Island together, some time in the next year maybe... I wanna get to those good beaches!
me, too!
Great post! I love all the figures. Excellent work @danielatha and NYC EcoFlora participants!!
Thanks, Kelly @klodonnell It takes a community. You've been a leader from the beginning. Our new EcoFlora associate, Lydia Paradiso crunched the numbers and made the cool graphs. Let's make the CNC spike the chart!!
Wonderful post with outstanding data and first rate information graphics! Special thanks to Daniel Atha of NYBG for spear-heading this effort and to all EcoFlora participants for a job well done. Now it's on to 1M observations and perhaps a few undocumented NYC species!
Ken Chaya
President
The Linnaean Society of New York
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