What are the GSB data used for?
On iNaturalist, all the data are freely available to anyone interested in downloading them. iNaturalist observations are used in hundreds of scientific publications. Many of them are using data that is shared with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility as part of the iNaturalist Research-Grade Observations dataset.
Your data are also used nationally, provincially and locally by our conservation agencies. The Red List Teams (CREW), Alien Clearing Teams, Reserve Managers and Conservation planners follow up and synthesize our data:
- new species
- new distribution records - range extensions
unusual habitats
So the data contribute to Red Listings, Reserve Management Plans, Student Research and municipal programmes. And also into research programmes on Wetlands, Vegetation Mapping, Migration and a myriad other projects.
And of course, data are used by you, by hikers, mountaineers, holidaymakers, and citizen scientists for planning holidays, trips, routes and finding out what is likely to be found, or found flowering, in specific areas.
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