I opened iNaturalist today to look at my cacti from my trip to Israel. I noticed that someone has been going through and marking them as casual (apparently they are “cultivated”). I’m pretty sure they’re wild as no special soils were involved, they appeared as though they had not been tended to in a…

Some possible partial solutions have been discussed over time. One idea was to separate the captive/cultivated bucket from the data quality bucket. Another idea was to create an equivalent of Research Grade for captive/cultivated, and make Needs ID independent of whether an observation is captive/cu…

[image] gordonh: Some ideas that I haven’t seen discussed it definitely was brought before.)

I do wish that there was a way to mark “relics of cultivation” or “survivors”. It’s always seemed strange to me to put “well-pampered houseplant” and “ tree that’s been deliberately planted but untouched for decades ” in one category and I think that’d help a fair bit - it’s hard to view a tree that’s…

[image] silaseckhardt: I hope I’ve made a convincing argument. At the root of every thread on variations of this topic, there is, I believe, a wish to have ones own observations “count.” Because no matter what iNat’s “official” stance may be, casual observations just don’t feel like they matt…

There is a long thread running https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/wild-vs-captive-cultivated-gray-areas/39882/28 It comes up again. And again.

Just a quick note that casual/cultivated observations still are available to scientists - they can be and are downloaded from iNat itself and sometimes used for research. They just aren’t exported to GBIF which has expressed the view that they don’t want to import a lot of cultivated/captive organis…

I have been on iNaturalist a long time. I have recorded close to 40,000 observations and am a curator. I might add that in agreement with an earlier post that it is a judgment call on whether it’s “wild” or not. I don’t appreciate having to explain my judgement repeatedly to young newbies that are…

[image] royaltyler: IMO, whether the actual original plant that was planted 30-40 years ago is posted, or if the naturalized ones all around it are posted, the situation dictates that it is naturalized and not cultivated. No, no matter when it was planted, it stays planted forever. Trees plan…

@marina_gorbunova But how can you really know whether that mature non-native tree in the wild is planted or not, that is what I have raised several times and haven’t gotten a real answer other than to use our best judgment, or as @royaltyler says, trust the judgment of experienced users. Whether exp…

[image] gordonh: how can you really know whether that mature non-native tree in the wild is planted or not Well you do research on a spot you visit, and if you’re still confused, just don’t observe the thing, there’re thousands of organisms around mature trees, just observe a sapling. I don’…

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"Are these captive/cultivated?"

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