Data from: Tradeoffs in moving citizen-based anuran call surveys online during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: lessons from rural Appalachia, USA

This dataset represents verified citizen science submissions for Mountain Chorus Frogs (Pseudacris brachyphona) across southwest Virginia, USA in 2019 and 2020. Project participants recorded observations of calling Mountain Chorus Frogs from private and public lands following training by the project investigators, recording audio and/or video evidence of calling frogs with their smartphone device. Only those observations that could be verified by accompanying audio/video or photographic evidence are included. We have processed the data presented here in two important ways: (i) removing the names of observers to align with institutional protocols involving the use of human subjects, replacing names with generalized observer categories (Student Trainees and Non-Student/Amateur Naturalist Participants), and (ii) obscuring geographic coordinates to two decimal places. The latter step was taken to avoid presenting precise locality data for our focal taxon, which is of high conservation concern, at the recommendation of our state's wildlife agency, as well as to avoid publishing the precise locality data for private citizens' places of residence, where several observations were made.