Diario del proyecto Flowering plants of Indonesia

14 de febrero de 2020

Nature Map Explorer is live

The iNaturalist community is helping to bolster flowering plant distribution records worldwide, and through this project we have been aiming to improve the quality and quantity of observations for Indonesia, as well as Ethiopia, India and Turkey.

The data, alongside many others, have fed into a series of global analyses and maps. You can see the new global map of areas important for the conservation of biodiversity and carbon storage here - https://explorer.naturemap.earth/map - and watch a webinar to find out more about how the maps are made. Your feedback through Nature Map Explorer on these initial maps, how they are explained or how they/what else might be useful, is very much welcomed.

Thank you for all your support so far!

Publicado el febrero 14, 2020 10:19 TARDE por lera lera | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

28 de noviembre de 2019

Making sure your observations are shared to GBIF

We are nearly at 4,000 Research Grade observations now - what progress!

Our aim here is to share wild flowering plant observations with the scientific community through GBIF.org (the Global Biodiversity Information Facility), where they are brought together with other location records from databases around the world.

This happens when (i) the observation is Research Grade (wild plant, identification agreed upon by by two iNaturalist members, with location, photo and observation date).

AND (ii) the license of the observations and photos permits automatic onward sharing by iNaturalist by GBIF. Only observations having CC0, CC BY, or CC BY-NC licenses will be share with GBIF: see https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/help#GBIFdata

If you want to make sure this is happening, please visit your profile on the website and choose 'Edit account settings and profile' - its surprising how many users are not sharing their data this way. Thank you!

Publicado el noviembre 28, 2019 10:51 TARDE por lera lera | 2 comentarios | Deja un comentario

15 de octubre de 2019

Great progress with identifications

This time last month, there were about 2,800 Research Grade observations - now there are over 3,500.

Congratulations and many thanks to the >500 identifiers who have been helping with the flowering plants of Indonesia!

(Please do keep on flagging those pot plants and street trees as 'not wild' so that all these research grade observations feeding into GBIF are useful for species range modelling).

Well done, everyone.

Publicado el octubre 15, 2019 11:01 MAÑANA por lera lera | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

11 de septiembre de 2019

Low-hanging fruit (and flowers) for identification

It's great to see the id progress on the Flowering Plants of Indonesia project - over 2800 observations at Research Grade now. That leaves about 4800 observations in the 'needs id' pot, including leafy photos that will often be harder to identify to species.

Sometimes - but far from always - when the photos for an observation include flowers, fruit or buds, this is marked up in the Annotations section.

That means its possible to query for observations that still need an initial id, or for the id to be confirmed, and which are more likely to have diagnostic features to help the identifier. There are about 130 of these at the time of writing.

This link will take you to these observations (hiding the ones that you personally have already reviewed)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?project_id=flowering-plants-of-indonesia&term_id=12&place_id=6966&without_term_value_id=21
[updated 19-6-20 to exclude new annotation 'no evidence of flowering']


Some other ways to help this to work better

Thank you, everyone!

Publicado el septiembre 11, 2019 09:58 MAÑANA por lera lera | 2 comentarios | Deja un comentario

12 de julio de 2019

Establishment status

@tansh91 who has been kindly identifying some of the plants says "Can someone label all the exotic plants "Establishment means: Introduced" in the Indonesia country page?

https://www.inaturalist.org/places/indonesia#taxon=47126 "

Any views on a good source for which are introduced to Indonesia?

Publicado el julio 12, 2019 07:21 MAÑANA por lera lera | 16 comentarios | Deja un comentario

10 de julio de 2019

Planted in Indonesia

One of the issues that we are coming across with this effort to improve the data on wild flowering plants is that a lot of observations of plants that are planted (not naturally occurring) still need to be tagged. iNaturalist rules that even exotic species are eligible for Research Grade, but only if they have spread themselves (eg the seedling of a planted tree). There are quite a few planted specimens turning up as Research Grade in iNaturalist.

Of course, it's fine to add these observations, they just need to be tagged appropriately.

If as an identifier, you spot an observation of a pot plant or a street tree, as well as marking it 'not wild', it would be super if you also point the users to the new project - e.g. "Your observation will appear in the new project https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/planted-in-indonesia , where users can help one another to identify garden and house plants, street trees, crops and so on. Please do feel free to join. "

Publicado el julio 10, 2019 09:57 TARDE por lera lera | 2 comentarios | Deja un comentario

11 de junio de 2019

Identifications in Flowering Plants of Indonesia

A particular thank you to those who have been identifying observations within the Indonesia collection project. There's a pressing need for help identifying plant species records here - thank you so much for helping others with their understanding of the flora and in the progress towards Research Grade records for GBIF.

Publicado el junio 11, 2019 04:46 TARDE por lera lera | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario