Data for: Indicator-specific correspondence between school-based citizen science data and scientist-generated data in riparian vegetation surveys
Abstract
This dataset contains the quadrat-level vegetation records analyzed in Yu, Choi, and Kim, "Indicator-specific correspondence between school-based citizen science data and scientist-generated data in riparian vegetation surveys." In September 2025, sixty high school students in a school-based citizen science program (StreamWatch) and three scientists independently surveyed separate 1 × 1 m quadrats along three urban streams in Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea (Gimpo, Pocheon, and Seongnam). The file includes all 90 scientist quadrats (622 records) and the 70 student quadrats (342 records) that had corresponding iNaturalist uploads and underwent taxonomic review by the research team. Each record gives the final identification (family, genus, species), percentage cover, and whether the taxon is one of the nine predefined target invasive plants. Quadrat-level indicators (total cover, invasive-plant cover, relative cover of invasive plants, recorded taxon richness, Shannon diversity, and Simpson diversity) are provided for all 160 quadrats. Scientist and student quadrats are different quadrats and are not paired. The dataset contains no personal, school, or account identifiers.
