Greg Pauly, a herpetologist with the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, discusses the power of crowdsourcing occurrence data from iNaturalist for urban biology.
Dr. Pauly is the co-author of "Citizen Science as a Tool for Augmenting Museum Collection Data from Urban Areas", which can be found here: journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fevo.2017.00086/full
Here's a link to the Reptiles of Southern California (RASCals) project on iNaturalist: inaturalist.org/projects/rascals
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