Photos highlight evolving roles of AI, citizen science in species research.

On a midsummer evening earlier this year, Tracy Pham was on a walk along Huntington Beach, California, an outing she usually made to photograph birds. This time, along the way, she noted a collection of fiddler crabs scuttling along the mud and determined they were worth recording as well.

After posting her crab photos to iNaturalist, a mobile app and website used to document sightings in nature, sudden interest picked up in these crabs. A crustacean expert identified them as large Mexican fiddler crabs (Uca princeps), and their appearance at Huntington Beach was well out of the known geographic range – 240 kilometers farther north than any had been observed before.

https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/photos-highlight-evolving-roles-of-ai-citizen-science-in-species-research/

Posted on December 18, 2018 12:27 AM by biohexx1 biohexx1

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