The FrogID dataset: expert-validated occurrence records of Australia's frogs collected by citizen scientists

Jodi J L Rowley; Corey T Callaghan

doi:10.3897/zookeys.912.38253

The FrogID dataset: expert-validated occurrence records of Australia's frogs collected by citizen scientists

Zookeys. 2020 Feb 17:912:139-151. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.912.38253. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Jodi J L Rowley^{1

2}, Corey T Callaghan²

Affiliations

¹ Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney, New South Wales 2010, Australia Australian Museum Research Institute Sydney Australia.
² Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia University of New South Wales Sydney Australia.

Abstract

This dataset represents expert-validated occurrence records of calling frogs across Australia collected via the national citizen science project FrogID (http://www.frogid.net.au). FrogID relies on participants recording calling frogs using smartphone technology, after which point the frogs are identified by expert validators, resulting in a database of georeferenced frog species records. This dataset represents one full year of the project (10 November 2017-9 November 2018), including 54,864 records of 172 species, 71% of the known frog species in Australia. This is the first instalment of the dataset, and we anticipate providing updated datasets on an annual basis.

Keywords: amphibians; bioacoustics; biodiversity data; citizen science; smartphone.

Jodi J.L. Rowley, Corey T. Callaghan.