Botany

Crowdsourced Vegetation Monitoring: Global Plant Trait Mapping

Source data and 1 km-resolution plant trait maps, integrating citizen science (GBIF) with professional data (sPlot) to map plant functional traits globally.

Size: 8.4 GB
Format: ZIP
License: CC-BY-4.0
Access: Open Access
Source: Zenodo (record 18108765)

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Challenge

Where on Earth do citizen observations of plant traits agree (or disagree) with professional survey data at 1 km resolution?

Where to start: Read the source-data tables from the archive selectively. Pick one trait and compare the citizen-derived vs. professional values where both exist.
What to share: A scatter or difference map for one trait and a short comment on where crowdsourcing holds up.

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