So in 2017, iNaturalist introduced annotations , which is a way to add metadata to an observation in an iNaturalist-controlled way rather than relying on the free-for-all that is observation fields. We wanted to start out with some basic ones, such as Sex and Life Stage, as well as Plant Phenology (w…

Betulaceae are fully monoecious.

There is a paper that refers to a database of genera with dioecious species here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267045293_The_relative_and_absolute_frequencies_of_angiosperm_sexual_systems_Dioecy_monoecy_gynodioecy_and_an_updated_online_database However, the link to the online database …

Here is the not broken link: http://www.umsl.edu/~renners/dioecy.pdf Thanks for the reference! The table is a bit odd, but the headings should be Family, Genus, Order, ?, ?, specifics of sexual system?, pollination, seed dispersal?, distribution.

Actually, here’s something better! Please see the supporting information file at this link . It’s the same database, but cleaned up and with headings. Thanks @twr61 ! @tiwane

Alive/dead could be useful. ‘Present at the moment’ field should probably be limited to animals. Things like toasted annual plants could be referred to as ‘dead’ instead. I’d love to see something to track leaf phenology, which is really important for plants both in cold areas like Vermont and in …

I’m just using “juvenile” to mean non-adult. It could be broken down further, obviously, but is that worthwhile given the errors that will creep in?

I think calling a day old chick a juvenile is already an error

I guess it just depends on how we define juvenile (which we should do). Is it a technical term for some taxa? I’m no bird expert but I’d have guessed a baby bird is a juvenile.

As I remember baby bird should be pull., not juv., juvenile refers to grown up, but not sexually mature.

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skipperdogman January 11, 2020, 8:44pm 219

I think that baby/chick would be quite useful for a life stage option. As a bird that is no more than a few days old doesn’t really count as a juvenile, and neither do many other species of animals.

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