How does one go about correcting incorrectly attributed “establishment means” information on a species page? In particular, I’ve come across cases where due to taxonomy changes, a species is listed as “native” in a region, and the region appears orange on the map, but the records to which the establ…

You go to the appropriate location page by searching for it, go to the checklist page in it, search for the taxa and edit from there. Unfortunately it is a one at a time process, there is no quick way to do it if it is wrongly applied across a group of locales. So for examples changes to Canada ar…

[image] paul_dennehy: How does one go about correcting incorrectly attributed “establishment means” information on a species page? In addition to @cmcheatle ’s instructions, to remove something from a list, on the Status tab of the taxon page, visit the View link for that place, and set Occurr…

[image] jdmore: so there is at least one observation of it still within the U.S. I think the question is about the northern part of the U.S., not the southern. There is an observation in Florida (his).

Would it help to edit the checklists for the affected states?

Yeah, it was specifically the inclusion of Wisconsin that was in need of removal, but the species does occur in southernmost Florida, so it should still show up on the U.S. list. Thanks for the help!

Thanks so much! This is good to know for the next time I run into one of these situations.

about the Establishment means… In case a new species shows up in a given Country anew, should it be automatically labelled Introduced? (doubt coming from chance that species, with climate change, are extending their range) example Nagusta goedelii in Italy, which was detected for the very first tim…

From the description, it seems “introduced” is only for cases where humans had a direct effect, not an indirect one (such as global warming).

I imagined that, but I really wonder how you can tell the cases apart, that’s where the question is coming from :thinking: How can you tell if a marine life spread because of vessel ballast or not? or if an insect first arrived in a container? It just shows up. I’m curious about the criteria here.

[image] edolis: How can you tell if a marine life spread because of vessel ballast or not? or if an insect first arrived in a container? It just shows up. I’m curious about the criteria here. I imagine “introduced” should only be set if it is known it originated like that - whether the origin…

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jdmore January 23, 2020, 12:26am 13

I would say no, because there are many taxa in many areas of the world where native occurrences have not yet been observed in iNaturalist. Having such observations automatically create introduced checklist entries would result in large numbers of incorrect establishment means in checklists.

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