Citizen contributions provided new information on 10 of 17 sea horse species with data once considered deficient...Researchers found community effort enabled scientific advances in the field.
iSeahorse project has amassed about 11,000 observations from more than 1,900 contributors...validated 7,794 of the observations from 96 countries and 35 sea horse species.
"Seahorses are very much the sort of fascinating species that benefit from community science, as they are cryptic enough to make even formal research challenging,"...new findings underscore the importance of community science efforts
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