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Citizen Science and Pollinators of South America

Tuesday, Apr 12, 2022 by Natalia P. Ghilardi-Lopes, Eduardo E. Zattara Citizen Science, Monitoring, Education, Book

“The book Citizen Science and Pollinators of South America provides us, through a clear, direct and accessible language, a useful and enjoyable reading. It is an original work that brings together for the first time, in a single volume, knowledge about pollinators and successful experiences of citizen science projects in South America. in South America, focusing on this biodiversity.” Blandina Felipe Viana, Universidade Federal da Bahia The digital version of this book is freely available - Spanish (PDF/epub) or Portuguese (PDF)

Bioblitz Challenge - Chile

Tuesday, Nov 10, 2020 by Lorena Vieli, Maureen Murúa & Francisco E. Fontúrbel Monitoring, Data, Biodiversity collection, Interaction

November - Bioblitz Challenge During November 2020 the Chilean members of SURPASS have launched a Bioblitz to promote the use of iNaturalist across the country. The aim of this initiative is to increase citizen awareness of pollinators, as well as the amount of data on this group of species in the iNaturalist Platform. Observations that are of good quality and their species is identified are automatically inserted into the GBIF Platform.

A Century of Bee Data

Wednesday, Oct 14, 2020 by Reto Schmucki, Manuel Lopez-Aliste & Francisco E. Fontúrbel (PUCV) Open Access, Data, Biodiversity collection, Bees, Apoidea

Mobilizing Biodiversity Data Over the last year, our partners in Chile have mobilized, standardized, and digitized a century of bee data in Chile. With this effort, our colleagues have secured 100 years of biological recording for generations and made it available to the world via the GBIF portal. This database presents the largest dataset of Chilean wild bees (Apoidea) with 36,010 records comprising over 40 years of data. This collection is held by the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, being the largest in the country.

PoMS overseas

Wednesday, Jun 3, 2020 by Francisco E. Fontúrbel (PUCV) Citizen Science, Monitoring, Education

Counting pollinators In the frame of the NERC-funded project SURPASS2 (Safeguarding pollination services in a changing world: theory into practice) that gathers researchers of UK, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, we implemented for the first time the FIT count methodology in Chile. Through a collaboration with the local EXPLORA project from La Araucanía Region, in southern Chile, we adapted the pollinator monitoring scheme developed in the UK for South America. In this opportunity, children from elementary schools of the Araucanía region.