Citizen scientists have contributed 62 million records to Australian biodiversity, according to the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA).More than half of the records in the database now come from volunteer citizen scientist observations. The data they’ve generated can be used by researchers to track species abundance and changes, and inform conservation.The ALA, which was established in 2010 and is hosted by the CSIRO on Australian Government funding, is the central hub for Australian biodiversity data.It collates records from nearly a thousand providers to generate open-access information on...…Citizen scientists have contributed 62 million records to Australian biodiversity, according to the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA).More than half of the records in the database now come from volunteer citizen scientist observations. The data they’ve generated can be used by researchers to track species abundance and changes, and inform conservation.The ALA, which was established in 2010 and is hosted by the CSIRO on Australian Government funding, is the central hub for Australian biodiversity data.It collates records from nearly a thousand providers to generate open-access information on...WW…