Я занимаюсь проблематикой инвазивных видов растений и в ближайшее время планирую начать систематическую загрузку соответствующего контента на ресурс. Но прежде хотелось бы уточнить у сообщества, насколько оправдано добавление наблюдений инвазивных и потенциально инвазивных видов в культуре (с соответствующей пометкой).
На мой взгляд это важно, так как культивируемые инвазивные виды являются источником диаспор. И, к примеру, пара культивируемых кустов Solidago canadensis в деревне через пяток-десяток лет могут быть обнаружены на опушке ближайшего леса. К тому же часть инвазивных видов с активным вегетативным размножением склонны к плавному дичанию и, порой, сложно провести черту между он ещё культивируется или уже одичал.
P.S. Буду очень благодарен, если кто-нибудь адекватно переведёт на английский мою тему. К сожалению, мой уровень владения английским языком оставляет желать лучшего, а машинному переводу я не доверяю, так как он зачастую искажает при переводе.
I deal with the problems of invasive plant species and in the near future I plan to begin a systematic upload of relevant content to the resource. But first I would like to clarify with the community how justified the addition of observations of invasive and potentially invasive species in the culture is (justified).
In my opinion, this is important, since cultivated invasive species are a source of diasporas. And, for example, a pair of cultivated bushes Solidago canadensis in the village in five to ten years can be found at the edge of the nearest forest. In addition, some invasive species with active vegetative propagation tend to run wild and sometimes it is difficult to draw a line between it is still cultivated or has already run wild.
P.S. I would be very grateful if someone adequately translates my topic into English. Unfortunately, my level of English proficiency leaves much to be desired, and I don’t trust machine translation, as it often distorts during translation.
If I’m understanding correctly, you’re asking whether we allow observations of cultivated species that are known to be invasive. The answer is yes, we allow them if they’re correctly marked as “captive / cultivated,” but that we don’t allow them to become “Research Grade” so we don’t distribute them to venues like GBIF. People who are interested in such data should extract it using our export tool or our API (for either you need to specify that you want quality_grade = "casual").
There is, of course, a much larger issue here of how we define (are cultivated plants relevant to iNaturalist users?) and name (why do we call it “Research” grade when cultivated plant observations could be used in research) our data quality grades, and you’ll find many forum threads on these subjects if you’re willing to translate them into English. All I can say from the staff perspective is that while we think about and discuss these issues, changing them is not currently a very high priority.
Translated using Google Translate. I do not guarantee all is correct.
"I deal with the problems of invasive plant species and in the near future I plan to begin a systematic upload of relevant content to the resource. But first I would like to clarify with the community how justified the addition of observations of invasive and potentially invasive species in the culture is (justified).
In my opinion, this is important, since cultivated invasive species are a source of diasporas. And, for example, a pair of cultivated bushes Solidago canadensis in the village in five to ten years can be found at the edge of the nearest forest. In addition, some invasive species with active vegetative propagation tend to run wild and sometimes it is difficult to draw a line between it is still cultivated or has already run wild.
P.S. I would be very grateful if someone adequately translates my topic into English. Unfortunately, my level of English proficiency leaves much to be desired, and I don’t trust machine translation, as it often distorts during translation."
I agree with @dianastuder
To help answer your question we have a number of different projects in South Africa covering this topic, including the one mentioned above.
Further to @dianastuder posting of https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/alien-early-detection-rapid-response-s-afr
I should point out that this project has been very useful in removing incipient invasions and is used by alien clearing teams to identify hotspots. So not just recording aliens, but actively removing them.
However, we are having problems getting buyin to using just iNaturalist for this. So the Cities of Cape Town and Durban have created their own websites to report aliens, and even SANBI - the national institute - only occasionally promotes iNaturalist, often working on emails instead.
You could gather your observations of cultivated (not wild) invasive or potentially invasive plants in a project. Thus, these observations could receive some attention from the users despite being marked as casual.