Diario del proyecto Santa Lucia Cloud Forest Reserve, Ecuador

26 de enero de 2024

Inaturalist Santa Lucia 2023 ... some stats.

Hello there,

2023 was a very successfull year for Santa Lucia in many respects (tourism, forest school, ...), but also the activity on inaturalist was quite impressive. There's a total of 1621 obervations by 59 observers including 557 species. It seems that inaturalist becomes more popular especially amongst students that visit us with the 15+ student groups we receive each year.

The top 10 observed species in inaturalist are:
1) Violet-tailed Sylph (12 observations)
1) Golden-headed Quetzal (12)
1) Gem Anole (12)
4) Flame-faced Tanager (10)
5) Pleurothallis cordata (8)
5) Heliconia burleana (8)
5) Maxillaria caucana (8)
8) Empress Brilliant (7)
8) Dusky Chlorospingus (7)
8) Masked Trogon (7)
8) Equatorial Anole (7)
8) Stelis argentata (7)
8) Stelis restripioides (7)

Birds and orchids, no surprises here as all those species can be observed easily around the lodge and in the orchid garden.

Amongst the observers @holgerbeck 's advantage (586 observations / 158 species) wasn't as huge as it usually is. Especially @meganhanson was close on his heels. 306 observations / 105 species are pretty impressive considering that she spent only 4 or 5 days in the reserve. Numbers 3 is @oliverpatrick with 67 observations / 37 species. Number 4 is @ben-adams1227 ams1227 (60 observations / 21 species) and the 5th place goes to @anna-easton with 57 observations / 32 species.

Thanks to everybody for contributing to Santa Lucía's species lists!

Publicado el enero 26, 2024 02:54 TARDE por holgerbeck holgerbeck | 1 comentario | Deja un comentario

17 de agosto de 2023

Diastema incisum at the Santa Lucía Reserve

Recently most of our Diastema sp. (fam: Gesneriaceae) have been re-identified as Diastema incisum, a species considered Critically Endangered. The story of this species is very interesting. Apparently it was described 200 years ago and was then forgotten. However ... since it was re-discovered and considering that it's not as rare as thought, it will probably lose it's status as Critically Endangered.

John Clark explained this in a little more details in this post:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cvj82y0MkHz/?img_index=1

Publicado el agosto 17, 2023 02:14 TARDE por holgerbeck holgerbeck | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

17 de julio de 2023

Lincoln Student Group @ Santa Lucia.

We quickly ramped up the species list of Santa to more than 1.050. Currently we have a student group of Lincoln University visiting the reserve. We'll be trying to motivate them to also upload their observations to inaturalist. Since they're going to be roaming the reserve for 10 days this should give us another boost.

Publicado el julio 17, 2023 08:25 TARDE por holgerbeck holgerbeck | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

25 de junio de 2023

1000 species!

A few days/weeks ago the Santa Lucía Cloud Forest Reserve Project reached 1.000 identified species. Thanks to @meganhanson , @emilyscherer , @gechj88 , @oliverpatrick , @camitom , @anna-easton , @nikimelnick , @djhird , @pinesnake , @asverclova , @ulsterbotany @jzmichel and all the others who helped reaching that number. Birds, orchids and lizards seem to be the most commonly observed and photographed species groups according to the species list. Lately fungus has been catching up though ... although it seems to be somewhat difficult to get IDs down to species level here. We'll keep trying and hope that maybe in a year from now we reach the 2.000 species ... considering there are around 1.500 species in vascular plants alone in Santa Lucía this should be possible. We are motivating all our visitors, especially students, to contribute to our data base.

Publicado el junio 25, 2023 06:19 TARDE por holgerbeck holgerbeck | 2 comentarios | Deja un comentario

23 de septiembre de 2022

Updated Polygon

The Polygon of the Santa Lucía Cloud Forest Reserve in inaturalist was updated in order to include the trail from the parking spot up to the lodge. Also some of the trails in the upper part of the were not included in the old polygon. Hopefully the data gets updates soon.

Holger.

Publicado el septiembre 23, 2022 02:14 TARDE por holgerbeck holgerbeck | 2 comentarios | Deja un comentario

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