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Who Eats Whom? A global food web derived from citizen science

  • Bradley C. Allf1
  • Aditi Mallavarapu2
  • David W. Kikuchi3
  • Nikhil Vasudeva4
  • Robert R. Dunn5
5 affiliations
  1. 1Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
  2. 2Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
  3. 3Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America
  4. 4Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
  5. 5Office of University Interdisciplinary Programs, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
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Abstract

Citizen science contains abundant yet underutilized data about species interactions. We present Who Eats Whom, a database and public engagement tool for searching and visualizing thousands of feeding relationships derived from iNaturalist data.

Citizen science photographs contain a vast and underused record of species interactions. This Community Page introduces Who Eats Whom, an interactive, searchable food web created from photographs uploaded to iNaturalist.

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@article{allf2026eats,
  title = {{Who Eats Whom? A global food web derived from citizen science}},
  author = {Bradley C. Allf and Aditi Mallavarapu and David W. Kikuchi and Nikhil Vasudeva and Robert R. Dunn},
  journal = {PLOS Biology},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.1371/journal.pbio.3003988},
  url = {https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003988},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY  - JOUR
TI  - Who Eats Whom? A global food web derived from citizen science
AU  - Bradley C. Allf
AU  - Aditi Mallavarapu
AU  - David W. Kikuchi
AU  - Nikhil Vasudeva
AU  - Robert R. Dunn
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/22
JO  - PLOS Biology
DO  - 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003988
UR  - https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003988
AB  - Citizen science contains abundant yet underutilized data about species interactions. We present Who Eats Whom, a database and public engagement tool for searching and visualizing thousands of feeding relationships derived from iNaturalist data.  Citizen science photographs contain a vast and underused record of species interactions. This Community Page introduces Who Eats Whom, an interactive, searchable food web created from photographs uploaded to iNaturalist.
SN  - 1545-7885
ER  -