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Chowdhury, Shawan; Aich, Upama; Rokonuzzaman, Md; Alam, Shofiul; Das, Priyanka; Siddika, Asma; Ahmed, Sultan; Labi, Mahzabin Muzahid; Di Marco, Moreno; Callaghan, Corey T; Fuller, Richard A (2022): Spatial occurrence data for the animals of Bangladesh derived from Facebook. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.948104

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Abstract:
While systematic biodiversity surveys are common in the Global North, much of the tropics remains vastly under-surveyed. With the rise in popularity of social media and camera phones, millions of people are now sharing their photographs online, which can be an effective source of biodiversity occurrence data. Here, we report on just such an exercise for the animals of Bangladesh, a megadiverse South Asian nation. This dataset was compiled by searching for species distribution records in seven large Facebook groups, following the method described by Chowdhury et al. (2021). The Facebook groups comprised:
Deep Ecology And Snake Rescue Foundation (https://www.facebook.com/groups/959896627527624);
Amphibians and Reptiles of Bangladesh; (https://www.facebook.com/groups/560709511527645); Biodiversity of Greater Kushtia (https://www.facebook.com/groups/244807066739477).
In each group, we searched by species common name, obtained from IUCN Bangladesh (2015), double-checked the identification in each photograph, and georeferenced the observations using Google Maps (https://maps.google.com/). We excluded photographs if the identification was incomplete (coarser than species level), or incorrect; if the photograph did not allow clear taxonomic identification; or if the location was unspecified or could not be accurately determined.
Keyword(s):
Bangladesh; IUCN red list; photographs; Survey data
Further details:
Chowdhury, Shawan; Alam, Shofiul; Chowdhury, Sayam U; Rokonuzzaman, Md; Shahriar, Shihab A; Fuller, Richard A (2021): Butterflies are weakly protected in a mega-populated country, Bangladesh. Global Ecology and Conservation, 26, e01484, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01484
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 23.746993 * Median Longitude: 90.427703 * South-bound Latitude: 20.580808 * West-bound Longitude: 88.053758 * North-bound Latitude: 26.628163 * East-bound Longitude: 92.667378
Date/Time Start: 2005-09-08T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2022-10-30T00:00:00
Event(s):
Bangladesh * Latitude: 23.800000 * Longitude: 90.300000 * Location: Bangladesh * Method/Device: Multiple investigations (MULT)
Parameter(s):
#NameShort NameUnitPrincipal InvestigatorMethod/DeviceComment
1Type of studyStudy typeChowdhury, Shawan
2ClassClassChowdhury, Shawan
3DATE/TIMEDate/TimeChowdhury, ShawanGeocode
4LATITUDELatitudeChowdhury, ShawanGeocode
5LONGITUDELongitudeChowdhury, ShawanGeocode
6SpeciesSpeciesChowdhury, Shawan
7Species, common nameSpecies commonChowdhury, Shawan
8OrderOrderChowdhury, Shawan
9FamilyFamilyChowdhury, Shawan
10LocationLocationChowdhury, Shawan
11IUCN Red List statusIUCN statusChowdhury, Shawan
12Life stageLife stageChowdhury, Shawan
13PhotographerPhotographerChowdhury, Shawan
Status:
Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
Size:
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