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Downloading and Visualizing Project Data from the iNaturalist Database

Author(s): Justine Doll1, Maria Baboi1, Mindi Summers1, Jana Vamosi1, Cristopher Albor1

University of Calgary

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Summary:
In this activity you will learn how to create a query, export, and download data from iNaturalist; load data into R; explore pollinator-plant interactions with R, and create heat map, bipartite, and bipartiteD3 networks in R.

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Version 1.0 - published on 03 Jun 2024 doi:10.25334/1ZWR-2276 - cite this

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This tutorial will teach you skills to create and manipulate datasets from iNaturalist. There are four main activities in this guide. The first activity is a general tutorial on how to download data from a project on iNaturalist. The second activity is a tutorial on loading datasets into R. The third activity gives examples of how to explore plant-pollinator interaction data using R. The fourth activity describes how to create a bipartite network with R to visualize plant-pollinator interactions. The example in this exercise uses data from the Calgary Pollinators Project on iNaturalist and looks at plant-pollinator interactions. However, you may adapt this guide for any project on iNaturalist.

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