Thank you for helping generate most GBIF records for most species since 2020

GBIF (the Global Biodiversity Information Facility) is an online archive that brings together global biodiversity data from over 81,000 datasets by thousands of publishers. These publishers include natural history museums like the Smithsonian museum and also citizen science sites like iNaturalist. GBIF provides essential monitoring capacity to inform biodiversity conservation. Over time, iNaturalist has become an increasingly significant contributor to GBIF. In fact, since 2020, most GBIF records for most species have come from iNaturalist. Only about 8% of the GBIF records since 2020 are from iNaturalist, so how can this be true? The answer is that most GBIF records represent a relatively small number of species (records of birds from popular bird-focused citizen science publishers such as eBird and records of common European species from popular European-focused citizen science publishers such as Artportalen). iNaturalist is unique as a GBIF publisher because it has generated tens...