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  • Non-unique species names

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    David Faden
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    If you’re given a species name of the form genus + specific epithet, does it uniquely identify a particular species level taxon? Nope. In R, playing again with taxa.csv from https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/inaturalist-taxonomy.dwca.zip, provided by iNaturalist: (This reminded me of an old conversation I had on r-sig-mac: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2008-September/005304.html.) Extracting the non-unique species: Here’s a spreadsheet with the…

  • California geophytes

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    David Faden
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    On Reddit, bobtheturd said, “Calscape doesn’t do a good job filtering for geophytes, so wondering which are your favorites. I’m in the Bay Area, so more specifically interested in those.” (The post got some interesting replies.) Calscape describes itself like this: “Calscape is California’s hub for California native plants and native plant gardening, created for…

  • Playing with iNaturalist taxonomy data in MariaDB

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    David Faden
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    You can download the iNaturalist taxonomy data (updated monthly) from https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/developers under “iNaturalist Taxonomy DarwinCore Archive” (https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/inaturalist-taxonomy.dwca.zip). After unzipping, you’ll find “taxa.csv”. Here’s one way of importing this into MariaDB (and I guess MySQL too). I know that the schema for my table isn’t optimal. (I would love to hear suggestions on how to improve…