BioLog: Recording App and Distributional Atlas in your pocket. A Czech approach to reaching citizensKarel ChobotNCA CZ

NCA CZ: national BD data collectorSPECIES

HABITATS

Launched ix.2014• Smartphones ↑↑• Citizen science importance ↑↑

Target group:1. Experts (effective way of recording)2. Amateur naturalists3. Interested public

• Recording of observed species on the spot usingadvantages of mobile device (time, name, GPS)

• Application works also off-line• Selection of species from the checklist, by typing or

by voice recognition• Adding of photographs or remarks to the record• Location by EXIF info of photos• Overview of observations in list and on map• Export of tabular file (csv format)• Registered users can send the data into Database • Registered users can look into the Database

Functions

• Record effectively• Record offline• Document your records• Record from your determined photographs• Look at your records• Work with your records• Share your records• Search for the known/unknown species• Get to know your area

Functions:

Record data flow

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BioLog Web Portál ISOPBioLog

All records (except hidden ones) SOD users

BioLog: Google Play

Free app (> Android 4.0.3)

HELP

Let´s start…

record…

Let´srecord…

§ GPS

§ Click on map

§ Naming: automated/manual

§ Google maps standard

§ MapsMe – offline maps

Record tips

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Pozorování

What I have seen…

My records My species Map of my sites

Pozorování

What I could have seen…

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WEB: recording

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WEB: recording

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Statistics (iv.2019)

1339 instalations

185 498 records by 1000 active authors

§ Accidental recorders (<10 records)…214

§ Regular recorders (11-99 records)…127

§ Fans (>99 records)…71 (6 over 1000 records)

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TOP 3 species in totalFringilla coelebs Common ChaffinchBufo bufo Common ToadRana temporaria Common Frog

TOP 3 species by publicXylocopa sp. Carpenter BeeIschnura elegans Common BluetailSanguisorba officinalis Great Burnet

SPECIES RICHNESSMunicipalities of Czechia

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Thanks for your attention

Karel Chobotkarel.chobot@nature.cz

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