Mosquito alert: leveraging citizen science to create a GBIF mosquito occurrence dataset.

ABSTRACT: The Mosquito Alert dataset includes occurrence records of adult mosquitoes collected worldwide in 2014-2020 through Mosquito Alert, a citizen science system for investigating and managing disease-carrying mosquitoes. Records are linked to citizen science-submitted photographs and validated by entomologists to determine the presence of five targeted European mosquito vectors: Aedes albopictus, Ae. aegypti, Ae. japonicus, Ae. koreicus, and Culex pipiens. Most records are from Spain, reflecting Spanish national and regional funding, but since autumn 2020 substantial records from other European countries are included, thanks to volunteer entomologists coordinated by the AIM-COST Action, and to technological developments to increase scalability. Among other ap

SUBMITTER: Juznic-Zonta Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9930537 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature