iSpot is a mobile app and social network that allows users to identify and share observations of wildlife. Over 150,000 observations and 250,000 images have been shared by more than 20,000 registered users, identifying over 7,000 species. The iSpot social network provides rapid identification of observations, with 64% receiving an ID within one day. iSpot is scalable, with growing participation and observations over time. It helps people learn about biodiversity and has aided in the discovery of new species in Britain and the surveillance of invasive species.
New tools for monitoring biodiversity and environmentsEdward Baker
How do we do science when the computer of 15 years ago now fits in your pocket and costs less than the battery you need to run it? Should biodiversity scientists work with the hacker and maker community? Should we forge links with engineering departments? Should hardware become a standard tool of the biodiversity informatician?
New tools for monitoring biodiversity and environmentsEdward Baker
How do we do science when the computer of 15 years ago now fits in your pocket and costs less than the battery you need to run it? Should biodiversity scientists work with the hacker and maker community? Should we forge links with engineering departments? Should hardware become a standard tool of the biodiversity informatician?
Saving our not so Furry Friends - Long live the freshwater crocodile by Anton...Art4Agriculture
This is the story of how Antonia found herself in the middle of nowhere wrestling crocs on a study with PhD student Ruchira Somaweera.
An experience that left her with more than an award winning thong tan on arrival back home to a little town called Sydney
A presentation to the Bedfordshire Natural History Society in November 2016 for their "neglected insects" conference - provides an introduction to the Soldierflies and Allies Recording Scheme.
Dr. Jon Whitehurst - Bats, Maths and Maps - Isle of Wight Cafe Sci - Nov 2016onthewight
What do bats, maths and maps have in common with systems engineering you ask yourself? The answer in this case lies in developing repeatable methodologies for the accurate prediction of bat habitat suitability using non-invasive survey methods.
The intent of this lecture is to show the extent to which cross discipline working is exploited within modern day ecology and to demonstrate that the ecology research in the 21st century is not just about fieldwork, recording and subjective assessment.
The specific example presented is bat habitat suitability modelling and the lecture will cover the end-to-end process of mapping predictive bat habitat use and describe the contributions to this process from across a wide range of scientific disciplines that enable field observations and digitised habitat features into fully quantifiable predictions of bat habitat use.
Dr. Jon Whitehurst - Bats, Maths and Maps - Nov 2016Simon Perry
What do bats, maths and maps have in common with systems engineering you ask yourself? The answer in this case lies in developing repeatable methodologies for the accurate prediction of bat habitat suitability using non-invasive survey methods.
The intent of this lecture is to show the extent to which cross discipline working is exploited within modern day ecology and to demonstrate that the ecology research in the 21st century is not just about fieldwork, recording and subjective assessment.
The specific example presented is bat habitat suitability modelling and the lecture will cover the end-to-end process of mapping predictive bat habitat use and describe the contributions to this process from across a wide range of scientific disciplines that enable field observations and digitised habitat features into fully quantifiable predictions of bat habitat use.
Succession of Arthropods on White Rat Carcasses in Ile Ife, Southwestern Nigeriaijtsrd
The forensic information provided by decomposition of small carcasses often goes unnoticed, even in advanced economies, due to frequent neglect. This paper reports the succession pattern of arthropod species that associated with carcasses of white rat, Rattus norvegicus Berkenhout Rodentia Muridae , in Ile Ife, southwestern Nigeria. Four bushy sites were chosen for the study and nine rat carcasses were placed at each site once a season for two seasons. The carcasses were monitored daily until the process of decay was over. The visiting and colonizing invertebrates were collected daily and identified. Immatures were also collected and reared in the laboratory till adult emergence for easy identification. The carcasses went through five stages of decay and the arthropods arrived in the order Diptera early fresh stage , Hymenoptera late fresh stage , Coleoptera and Dermaptera active decay stage , and Araneae and Oribatida advanced decay stage . Dipteran flies were the first arthropods to interact with the remains but ants were the only arthropods that associated with all the five stages of decay. A total of 9828 arthropods 4415 adults and 5413 immatures belonging to six orders in two classes of the phylum were collected in the study. The proportion of faunal abundance was Diptera 75.10 , Hymenoptera 22.90 , Coleoptera 1.80 , Dermaptera 0.10 , Oribatida 0.08 and Araneae 0.02 . Rate of decay was faster and faunal population was higher on carcasses during the dry season compared to the wet. Faunal population was also higher on carcasses placed in close proximity to the Zoological garden. The implications of these results on accuracy of estimated postmortem interval PMI and applicability in law were discussed. Aminat Adeola Adesina | Olalekan Joseph Soyelu "Succession of Arthropods on White Rat Carcasses in Ile-Ife, Southwestern Nigeria" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-6 , October 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd35737.pdf Paper Url: https://www.ijtsrd.com/biological-science/zoology/35737/succession-of-arthropods-on-white-rat-carcasses-in-ileife-southwestern-nigeria/aminat-adeola-adesina
Crown Capital Eco Management Renewable Energy Scamjonahkebbles
Crown Capital Eco Management works with government bodies, international entities, private sectors and other non-governmental organizations in providing extensive information to the public, media and policymakers that are involved in addressing environmental issues and sustainable initiatives in a worldwide scale.
iEvoBio Keynote: Frontiers of discovery with Encyclopedia of Life -- TRAITBANK Cyndy Parr
Talk presented at iEvoBio 2014 conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. Though there's a similar title and overlap with the talk I posted last week, there is new material here especially geared towards an informatics crowd savvy in the tools and technology.
Cobb, Seltmann, Franz. 2014. The Current State of Arthropod Biodiversity Data...taxonbytes
Cobb et al. 2014. The Current State of Arthropod Biodiversity Data: Addressing Impacts of Global Change. Presented at https://www.idigbio.org/content/collections-21st-century-symposium Program available at https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Collections_for_the_21st_Century
LinEpig: An online resource on erigonine epigynaNina Sandlin
Poster presented at 2009 American Arachnological Society describing LinEpig. This online gallery of anatomical spider images - which at this point included 120 species - was intended to help museum identify the Linyphiidae in their collections. These are some of the most numerous, most diverse and tiniest spiders in North America.
Sever, Z. (2021). Review: Okapi translocations. Submitted to Uganda wildlife authority (UWA) as a background towards "The Okapi restoration to Uganda project", January, 6 pp.
Saving our not so Furry Friends - Long live the freshwater crocodile by Anton...Art4Agriculture
This is the story of how Antonia found herself in the middle of nowhere wrestling crocs on a study with PhD student Ruchira Somaweera.
An experience that left her with more than an award winning thong tan on arrival back home to a little town called Sydney
A presentation to the Bedfordshire Natural History Society in November 2016 for their "neglected insects" conference - provides an introduction to the Soldierflies and Allies Recording Scheme.
Dr. Jon Whitehurst - Bats, Maths and Maps - Isle of Wight Cafe Sci - Nov 2016onthewight
What do bats, maths and maps have in common with systems engineering you ask yourself? The answer in this case lies in developing repeatable methodologies for the accurate prediction of bat habitat suitability using non-invasive survey methods.
The intent of this lecture is to show the extent to which cross discipline working is exploited within modern day ecology and to demonstrate that the ecology research in the 21st century is not just about fieldwork, recording and subjective assessment.
The specific example presented is bat habitat suitability modelling and the lecture will cover the end-to-end process of mapping predictive bat habitat use and describe the contributions to this process from across a wide range of scientific disciplines that enable field observations and digitised habitat features into fully quantifiable predictions of bat habitat use.
Dr. Jon Whitehurst - Bats, Maths and Maps - Nov 2016Simon Perry
What do bats, maths and maps have in common with systems engineering you ask yourself? The answer in this case lies in developing repeatable methodologies for the accurate prediction of bat habitat suitability using non-invasive survey methods.
The intent of this lecture is to show the extent to which cross discipline working is exploited within modern day ecology and to demonstrate that the ecology research in the 21st century is not just about fieldwork, recording and subjective assessment.
The specific example presented is bat habitat suitability modelling and the lecture will cover the end-to-end process of mapping predictive bat habitat use and describe the contributions to this process from across a wide range of scientific disciplines that enable field observations and digitised habitat features into fully quantifiable predictions of bat habitat use.
Succession of Arthropods on White Rat Carcasses in Ile Ife, Southwestern Nigeriaijtsrd
The forensic information provided by decomposition of small carcasses often goes unnoticed, even in advanced economies, due to frequent neglect. This paper reports the succession pattern of arthropod species that associated with carcasses of white rat, Rattus norvegicus Berkenhout Rodentia Muridae , in Ile Ife, southwestern Nigeria. Four bushy sites were chosen for the study and nine rat carcasses were placed at each site once a season for two seasons. The carcasses were monitored daily until the process of decay was over. The visiting and colonizing invertebrates were collected daily and identified. Immatures were also collected and reared in the laboratory till adult emergence for easy identification. The carcasses went through five stages of decay and the arthropods arrived in the order Diptera early fresh stage , Hymenoptera late fresh stage , Coleoptera and Dermaptera active decay stage , and Araneae and Oribatida advanced decay stage . Dipteran flies were the first arthropods to interact with the remains but ants were the only arthropods that associated with all the five stages of decay. A total of 9828 arthropods 4415 adults and 5413 immatures belonging to six orders in two classes of the phylum were collected in the study. The proportion of faunal abundance was Diptera 75.10 , Hymenoptera 22.90 , Coleoptera 1.80 , Dermaptera 0.10 , Oribatida 0.08 and Araneae 0.02 . Rate of decay was faster and faunal population was higher on carcasses during the dry season compared to the wet. Faunal population was also higher on carcasses placed in close proximity to the Zoological garden. The implications of these results on accuracy of estimated postmortem interval PMI and applicability in law were discussed. Aminat Adeola Adesina | Olalekan Joseph Soyelu "Succession of Arthropods on White Rat Carcasses in Ile-Ife, Southwestern Nigeria" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-6 , October 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd35737.pdf Paper Url: https://www.ijtsrd.com/biological-science/zoology/35737/succession-of-arthropods-on-white-rat-carcasses-in-ileife-southwestern-nigeria/aminat-adeola-adesina
Crown Capital Eco Management Renewable Energy Scamjonahkebbles
Crown Capital Eco Management works with government bodies, international entities, private sectors and other non-governmental organizations in providing extensive information to the public, media and policymakers that are involved in addressing environmental issues and sustainable initiatives in a worldwide scale.
iEvoBio Keynote: Frontiers of discovery with Encyclopedia of Life -- TRAITBANK Cyndy Parr
Talk presented at iEvoBio 2014 conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. Though there's a similar title and overlap with the talk I posted last week, there is new material here especially geared towards an informatics crowd savvy in the tools and technology.
Cobb, Seltmann, Franz. 2014. The Current State of Arthropod Biodiversity Data...taxonbytes
Cobb et al. 2014. The Current State of Arthropod Biodiversity Data: Addressing Impacts of Global Change. Presented at https://www.idigbio.org/content/collections-21st-century-symposium Program available at https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Collections_for_the_21st_Century
LinEpig: An online resource on erigonine epigynaNina Sandlin
Poster presented at 2009 American Arachnological Society describing LinEpig. This online gallery of anatomical spider images - which at this point included 120 species - was intended to help museum identify the Linyphiidae in their collections. These are some of the most numerous, most diverse and tiniest spiders in North America.
Sever, Z. (2021). Review: Okapi translocations. Submitted to Uganda wildlife authority (UWA) as a background towards "The Okapi restoration to Uganda project", January, 6 pp.
7. Rapid response of the iSpot social network
Cumulative % identified
Time taken for the first ID to be offered
n = 64,669 Observations submitted without an ID
12. Shieldbugs & allies
• first Eurydema ornata record on the
Gateway
• an intriguing record of the Fire Bug
Pyrrhocoris apterus in London
• multiple records of
the spectacular new arrival
Leptoglossus occidentalis.
• the data reflect
recent northward and
inland spread of
species responding
to climate change (eg
Palomena prasina
Distribution of and Corizus
the c300 Thanks to hyoscyami)
observations Dr T. Bantock
14. Species of conservation
concern
• Of 6,567 species in Gt Britain identified on
iSpot to date:
• 733 (11%) have a conservation listing,
including:
– BAP Priority species (c. 300)
– Red-listed species (c. 250)
– Nationally Scarce species (c. 300)
19. Thanks!
• Janice Ansine • Richard Lovelock
• Doug Clow • Tony Rebelo
• Richard Greenwood (SANBI)
• Mike Dodd • Jon Rosewell
• Martin Harvey • Will Woods
www.ispot.org.uk
Twitter: @iSpot_uk
Editor's Notes
iSpot uses the wisdom in the crowd, but is designed for learning so we expect the structure of the network to change over time A name is the quantum of learning in biodiversity A name is a key to knowledge With a name you can share what you have seen & find out more about it The process of discovering the correct name is a lightbulb moment Now have nearly 17,000 registered users and over 90,000 observations
Hedges are great places for wildlife and thousands more observations of wildlife found in these habitats have been posted on iSpot Here are just a handful seen earlier this month. Cranefly, AndyK Pied shieldbug, chrisbrooks Commom carder bee, chrisbrooks Greater stichwort, heathboy Small white, dodgydoug Bunias orientalis, martinjohnbishop Goldfinch, Glen1 Vapourer caterpillar, IanPeirce777 hoverfly ( Dasysyrphus albostriatus) , davidcareyhadlow Chaffinch, Alison_Reid99 Cuckoo flower & orange tip egg, moremoth Hawthorn, gramandy Weeping Widow, Jonathan Green alkanet, Teesider female blackcap jeremy015 Xanthoria parietina, martinjohnbishop
Votes, weighted by reputation in the group in question Half of observations posted with no name receive a likely ID inside an hour and 88% within a day.
As users progress from their first to their 50 th observation posted on iSpot, they are more and more likely to be able to identify what they have seen for themselves.
http://www.ispot.org.uk/node/98950 Pyrrhocoris apterus in London http://www.ispot.org.uk/node/124751 Palomena prasina http://www.ispot.org.uk/node/133398 Corizus hyoscyami
Updated with Martins new analysis 6 Jan 2012 The 281 BAP spp imclude about 50 spp of moths that are still widespread, but that are listed because they are declining & need research Some species are on more than one conservation list
This uses 2 cloud services – Google maps and the Red List for SA to obfuscate the locations of sensitive species