The Boston Harbor Islands All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory and its database continue to be great resources for both researchers and citizen scientists. They were recently highlighed in this National Parks Conservation Association article about the Boston Harbor Islands. The article is a reminder of both the variety of experiences in nature that people can have, as well as how significant the microwilderness is, even when you live in a city!

"The project’s volunteers gathered approximately 160,000 arthropods and gastropods from 19 islands and peninsulas over six years. As they delved into the painstaking work of identifying specimens, even Wilson was surprised at the breadth of what was discovered. “Ed had offered some guesses as to how many ants we’d find,” Farrell said. “He thought we’d have like 20 species out there, and it was three or four times that.”"

Read the article here (opens in a new window) https://www.npca.org/articles/3525-offshore-escape

and visit the BHI ATBI database here (may take a moment to load): 

https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/grouping/showNamedCollection.cfm?underscore_collection_id=281