Daily Challenge: Day 1
Daily Challenge: Day 1
Globalization has increased the number of invasive species world-wide. Use ResourceFunction[“INaturalistSearch”] to share some interesting info about an invasive species.
Example
Example
Photinus immigrans is a species of firefly that is invasive in my region. This species belongs to the genus Photinus, endemic of the American continent, however, it was described for the first time in 2018 in the Iberian Peninsula.
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dataset=["Photinus immigrans"]
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ImportPart["Photinus immigrans","UserLogin""jofree"],2["ImageURL"]
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If you plot the observations on the map, you can see that they are all located near my hometown, Figueres:
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GeoGraphics[{PointSize[Large],Red,Point@dataset[All,"GeoPosition"]}]
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We can use “Count” to get the number of observations of Photinus species in Europe (invasive) and North America (native):
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23
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7711
Photinus immigrans is an extreme case of an invasive species, where native specimens haven’t been found on their native environment yet.
Reference
Reference
“Photinus immigrans sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Photinini): Primer registro del género Photinus en Cataluña, España” (PDF). Revista gaditana de Entomología (in Spanish). IX (1). 2018.