The introduced terrestrial slugs<i>Ambigolimax nyctelius</i>(Bourguignat, 1861) and<i>Ambigolimax valentianus</i>(Férussac, 1821) (Gastropoda: Limacidae) in California, with a discussion of taxonomy, systematics, and discovery by citizen science

Vendetti, Jann E.; Burnett, Emily; Carlton, Lidia; Curran, Anne T.; Lee, Cedric; Matsumoto, Ron; Donnell, Rory J. Mc; Reich, Inga; Willadsen, Ole

doi:10.1080/00222933.2018.1536230

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“…Biodiversity documentation, by the means of aggregation of individual observations, is the main goal of iNaturalist. Consistent with this are the many examples of papers dealing with new noteworthy records of either alien (Vendetti et al 2018;Hiller and Haelewaters 2019;Liebgold 2019) or native organisms (Rosenberg 2018; Schuette et al 2018) made by amateur naturalists. Further accumulation of data made possible precise documentation of alien species distribution on a nationwide scale (Ciceoi et al 2017), their expansion process (Oficialdegui et al 2020), routine monitoring of invasive species (Larson et al 2020), documentation of at-risk species beyond the boundaries of protected areas (Young et al 2019) and a global assessment of species' extinction risk with the inclusion of citizen science data (Gardiner and Bachman 2016).…”

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"Flora of Russia" on iNaturalist: a dataset

Seregin¹,

Bochkov²,

Shner³

et al. 2020

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The "Flora of Russia" project on iNaturalist brought together professional scientists and amateur naturalists from all over the country. Over 10,000 people were involved in the data collection. Within 20 months, the participants accumulated 750,143 photo observations of 6,857 species of the Russian flora. This constitutes the largest dataset of open spatial data on the country’s biodiversity and a leading source of data on the current state of the national flora. About 87% of all project data, i.e. 652,285 observations, are available under free licences (CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-NC) and can be freely used in scientific, educational and environmental activities.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 63%

"Flora of Russia" on iNaturalist: a dataset

Seregin¹,

Bochkov²,

Shner³

et al. 2020

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“…DNA barcoding was used to support specific identification of D. invadens, which mainly requires the analysis of genitalia by dissection to distinguish it from Deroceras laeve (Müller) [38,43,61]. Analysis of genitalia is also necessary for A. valentianus, to distinguish this species from Ambigolimax nyctelius (Bourguignat) [43,62]. In all cases, barcoding confirmed the morphological identification.…”

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Slug Monitoring and Impacts on the Ground Beetle Community in the Frame of Sustainable Pest Control in Conventional and Conservation Agroecosystems

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Panini

Chiesa

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In conservation agriculture, slugs are considered significant pests and their monitoring is a key option in the integrated pest management framework. Together with molluscicide applications, predators such as ground beetles can offer a tool for slug control in the field. Through the evaluation of slug and ground beetle monitoring strategies, this work compared their presence in conventional and conservation agricultural plots. The invasive Deroceras invadens was the dominant slug species to occur in all sampling periods. Among Carabidae, Poecilus cupreus and Pterostichus melas were the most abundant species, and Bembidion spp., Brachinus spp., and Harpalus spp. were also common. Beer-baited pitfall traps, whatever their alcoholic content, caught more slugs and ground beetles than wooden boards used as shelters. Slugs were more abundant in conventional plots than in conservation plots, possibly due to the lower presence of natural enemies such as ground beetles. Despite possible impacts on Carabidae, beer-baited pitfall traps should be considered a useful tool for slug monitoring and for the planning of molluscicide applications. Soil management such as minimum- or no-tillage and the presence of cover crops are important elements influencing both slug and ground beetle presence, possibly playing a key role in the maintenance of natural enemy populations.

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“…Data collected through these platforms are made public and offer researchers, land managers, and educators different ways to be involved in research. Hundreds of natural history papers have used these data and filled knowledge gaps on changes in species abundance (Breed et al, 2013) and distribution (Gomes et al, 2019;Vendetti et al, 2019), biodiversity, plant and animal reproductive phenology (Chandler et al, 2017;Li et al, 2019), and have informed conservation actions (Robinson et al, 2018;Schuttler et al, 2018).…”

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The Rapid Rise of Next-Generation Natural History

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Many ecologists have lamented the demise of natural history and have attributed this decline to a misguided view that natural history is outdated and unscientific. Although there is a perception that the focus in ecology and conservation have shifted away from descriptive natural history research and training toward hypothetico-deductive research, we argue that natural history has entered a new phase that we call “next-generation natural history.” This renaissance of natural history is characterized by technological and statistical advances that aid in collecting detailed observations systematically over broad spatial and temporal extents. The technological advances that have increased exponentially in the last decade include electronic sensors such as camera-traps and acoustic recorders, aircraft- and satellite-based remote sensing, animal-borne biologgers, genetics and genomics methods, and community science programs. Advances in statistics and computation have aided in analyzing a growing quantity of observations to reveal patterns in nature. These robust next-generation natural history datasets have transformed the anecdotal perception of natural history observations into systematically collected observations that collectively constitute the foundation for hypothetico-deductive research and can be leveraged and applied to conservation and management. These advances are encouraging scientists to conduct and embrace detailed descriptions of nature that remain a critically important component of the scientific endeavor. Finally, these next-generation natural history observations are engaging scientists and non-scientists alike with new documentations of the wonders of nature. Thus, we celebrate next-generation natural history for encouraging people to experience nature directly.

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The introduced terrestrial slugsAmbigolimax nyctelius(Bourguignat, 1861) andAmbigolimax valentianus(Férussac, 1821) (Gastropoda: Limacidae) in California, with a discussion of taxonomy, systematics, and discovery by citizen science

Cited by 20 publications

References 59 publications

"Flora of Russia" on iNaturalist: a dataset

"Flora of Russia" on iNaturalist: a dataset

Slug Monitoring and Impacts on the Ground Beetle Community in the Frame of Sustainable Pest Control in Conventional and Conservation Agroecosystems

The Rapid Rise of Next-Generation Natural History

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