Quality-checked species records from the German citizen science platform ArtenFinder
Volunteers and citizen science initiatives play a crucial role for the documentation of species occurrences and distributions. When quality-checked and openly available, such data can provide information for biodiversity research and nature conservation. While some large international platforms reac...
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| author | Thore Engel Yannick Brenz Hendrik Geyer Jörg Holetschek Aletta Bonn Cathrina Balthasar Susanne Bengsch Romain Clément Christian Dietzen Chris Dlouhy Jens Esser Frederic Griesbaum Matthias Haag Karin-Simone Hauth René Jarling Stefan Kahlert Norbert Kenntner Jochen Krebühl Julia Kruse Steven Lischke Robert Lücking Lars Mayer Susanne Müller Thomas Nogatz Michael Ochse Sophie Ogan Katharina von Oheimb Parm Viktor von Oheimb Gerrit Öhm Korbinian Pacher Manfred Alban Pfeifer Charlotte Reutter Oliver Röller Frederik Rothe Norbert Scheydt Oliver Schmitz Dominik Schmitz Norman Wagner Ulrike Willerding Christoph Willigalla Svea-Sophie Zimmermann Martin Friedrichs-Manthey |
| author_facet | Thore Engel Yannick Brenz Hendrik Geyer Jörg Holetschek Aletta Bonn Cathrina Balthasar Susanne Bengsch Romain Clément Christian Dietzen Chris Dlouhy Jens Esser Frederic Griesbaum Matthias Haag Karin-Simone Hauth René Jarling Stefan Kahlert Norbert Kenntner Jochen Krebühl Julia Kruse Steven Lischke Robert Lücking Lars Mayer Susanne Müller Thomas Nogatz Michael Ochse Sophie Ogan Katharina von Oheimb Parm Viktor von Oheimb Gerrit Öhm Korbinian Pacher Manfred Alban Pfeifer Charlotte Reutter Oliver Röller Frederik Rothe Norbert Scheydt Oliver Schmitz Dominik Schmitz Norman Wagner Ulrike Willerding Christoph Willigalla Svea-Sophie Zimmermann Martin Friedrichs-Manthey |
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| description | Volunteers and citizen science initiatives play a crucial role for the documentation of species occurrences and distributions. When quality-checked and openly available, such data can provide information for biodiversity research and nature conservation. While some large international platforms reach a high number of opportunistic users around the world, there are also many smaller and regional citizen science initiatives, which often collaborate very closely with local authorities, conservation organisations and local experts and volunteers. Despite their high quality, data from such regional initiatives are often missing from global open data platforms, such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).Here, we present a quality-checked citizen science dataset published on GBIF with more than 1 million georeferenced species records with a geographic focus on the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) and Berlin. The dataset originates from the collaborative observation platform ArtenFinder, which is run by the two federal states. While each state branch administers its own web platform, they share a common database. Users can upload, edit, manage and share their observations of animals, plants and fungi. Experts validate the species records, based on photographs and other media as well as on plausibility, which allows the data to be used by state authorities and for conservation management and research purposes. The data mobilisation and publication were enabled by the German National Research Data Infrastructure for Biodiversity (NFDI4Biodiversity) and the dataset is now also available through the Living Atlas of Nature Germany platform, a GBIF hosted portal. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-27a72f451bba4cb2a8254bc846b2518a2025-08-20T02:48:01ZengPensoft PublishersBiodiversity Data Journal1314-28282025-07-011311710.3897/BDJ.13.e150687150687Quality-checked species records from the German citizen science platform ArtenFinderThore Engel0Yannick Brenz1Hendrik Geyer2Jörg Holetschek3Aletta Bonn4Cathrina Balthasar5Susanne Bengsch6Romain Clément7Christian Dietzen8Chris Dlouhy9Jens Esser10Frederic Griesbaum11Matthias Haag12Karin-Simone Hauth13René Jarling14Stefan Kahlert15Norbert Kenntner16Jochen Krebühl17Julia Kruse18Steven Lischke19Robert Lücking20Lars Mayer21Susanne Müller22Thomas Nogatz23Michael Ochse24Sophie Ogan25Katharina von Oheimb26Parm Viktor von Oheimb27Gerrit Öhm28Korbinian Pacher29Manfred Alban Pfeifer30Charlotte Reutter31Oliver Röller32Frederik Rothe33Norbert Scheydt34Oliver Schmitz35Dominik Schmitz36Norman Wagner37Ulrike Willerding38Christoph Willigalla39Svea-Sophie Zimmermann40Martin Friedrichs-Manthey41Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biodiversität und MenschStiftung Naturschutz BerlinStiftung Natur und Umwelt Rheinland-PfalzBotanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin, Freie Universität BerlinGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches InstitutStiftung Naturschutz BerlinStiftung Naturschutz BerlinStaatliche Vogelschutzwarte Rheinland-Pfalz, Landesamt für UmweltArtenFinder Rheinland-PfalzArtenFinder BerlinMuseum für Naturkunde – Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity ScienceArtenFinder Rheinland-PfalzArtenFinder Rheinland-PfalzBotanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin, Freie Universität BerlinArtenFinder Rheinland-PfalzStiftung Naturschutz BerlinStiftung Natur und Umwelt Rheinland-PfalzPfalzmuseum für Naturkunde - Pollichia-MuseumStiftung Naturschutz BerlinBotanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin, Freie Universität BerlinArtenFinder Rheinland-PfalzArtenFinder Rheinland-PfalzStiftung Naturschutz BerlinPollichia, Verein für Naturfoschung, Naturschutz und Umweltbildung e.VStabsstelle Klima, Boden, Biodiversität des Thünen-InstitutMuseum für Naturkunde – Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity ScienceMuseum für Naturkunde – Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity ScienceArtenFinder BerlinDepartment of Biology and Ecology of Fishes, Leibniz-Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland FischeriesBüro für Ökologische GutachtenBUND für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland, Landesverband Rheinland-Pfalz e.V.Institut für Naturkunde in Südwestdeutschland (NATUR SÜDWEST)ArtenFinder BerlinArtenFinder Rheinland-PfalzEntomologische Gesellschaft ORION Berlin e.V.ArtenFinder BerlinZweckverband Natura Ill-TheelStiftung Naturschutz BerlinWilligalla Ökologische GutachtenStiftung Naturschutz BerlinHelmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department Biodiversität und MenschVolunteers and citizen science initiatives play a crucial role for the documentation of species occurrences and distributions. When quality-checked and openly available, such data can provide information for biodiversity research and nature conservation. While some large international platforms reach a high number of opportunistic users around the world, there are also many smaller and regional citizen science initiatives, which often collaborate very closely with local authorities, conservation organisations and local experts and volunteers. Despite their high quality, data from such regional initiatives are often missing from global open data platforms, such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).Here, we present a quality-checked citizen science dataset published on GBIF with more than 1 million georeferenced species records with a geographic focus on the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) and Berlin. The dataset originates from the collaborative observation platform ArtenFinder, which is run by the two federal states. While each state branch administers its own web platform, they share a common database. Users can upload, edit, manage and share their observations of animals, plants and fungi. Experts validate the species records, based on photographs and other media as well as on plausibility, which allows the data to be used by state authorities and for conservation management and research purposes. The data mobilisation and publication were enabled by the German National Research Data Infrastructure for Biodiversity (NFDI4Biodiversity) and the dataset is now also available through the Living Atlas of Nature Germany platform, a GBIF hosted portal.https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/150687/download/pdf/citizen sciencebiodiversity monitoringvoluntee |
| spellingShingle | Thore Engel Yannick Brenz Hendrik Geyer Jörg Holetschek Aletta Bonn Cathrina Balthasar Susanne Bengsch Romain Clément Christian Dietzen Chris Dlouhy Jens Esser Frederic Griesbaum Matthias Haag Karin-Simone Hauth René Jarling Stefan Kahlert Norbert Kenntner Jochen Krebühl Julia Kruse Steven Lischke Robert Lücking Lars Mayer Susanne Müller Thomas Nogatz Michael Ochse Sophie Ogan Katharina von Oheimb Parm Viktor von Oheimb Gerrit Öhm Korbinian Pacher Manfred Alban Pfeifer Charlotte Reutter Oliver Röller Frederik Rothe Norbert Scheydt Oliver Schmitz Dominik Schmitz Norman Wagner Ulrike Willerding Christoph Willigalla Svea-Sophie Zimmermann Martin Friedrichs-Manthey Quality-checked species records from the German citizen science platform ArtenFinder Biodiversity Data Journal citizen science biodiversity monitoring voluntee |
| title | Quality-checked species records from the German citizen science platform ArtenFinder |
| title_full | Quality-checked species records from the German citizen science platform ArtenFinder |
| title_fullStr | Quality-checked species records from the German citizen science platform ArtenFinder |
| title_full_unstemmed | Quality-checked species records from the German citizen science platform ArtenFinder |
| title_short | Quality-checked species records from the German citizen science platform ArtenFinder |
| title_sort | quality checked species records from the german citizen science platform artenfinder |
| topic | citizen science biodiversity monitoring voluntee |
| url | https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/150687/download/pdf/ |
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