Students as citizen scientists: project-based learning through the iNaturalist platform could provide useful biodiversity data

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Acknowledgements

I thank Judit Szabo for a critical reading of the previous version of the manuscript. I also thank all my students for sharing observations on iNaturalist.

Disclosure statement

The author is also the current head of the Citizen Science Virtual Lab.

Data availability statement

Raw data supporting this study’s findings are available in https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7295223.

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Notes on contributors

Lucas Rodriguez Forti

Lucas Rodriguez Forti has a PhD in applied ecology and is currently a professor of ecology at the Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido, Brazil.