What do we show by default on Explore? While iNaturalist has many uses, one of the core audiences of the site is the natural history and biogeography communities who are interested in the distribution of established populations. This is why, by default on the iNaturalist Explore page, we filter by…

If they are that dominant, aren’t they very likely to be encountered and should be included when using explore as an informal ‘field guide’? no - they represent a tiny tiny subset of the observations so they don’t have a noticeable impact on the observations tab on the explore page - but because …

[image] loarie: This would mean that captive/cultivated observations would be in Needs ID and Research. But we would add an additional set of search filters to Explore that default to excluding Casual, Captive/Cultivated, and Non-established observations by default. Not going to lie, I’m shoc…

In various faunal checklists for a particular region, I’ve seen the term “waif” used for those documented occurrences of an animal species that has shown up maybe once or twice in an area and for which there is no evidence that it has become established. Sometimes they are known to be popular pets. …

I also suggest changing the title of this thread, because even though pets (animals) are the focus for you, a lot of plant people are going to want to read this.

[image] loarie: coordinate RG update with changes to/impacts on many parts of the site including: [image] loarie: every project that has an existing RG requirement every partner consuming our data that may be assuming RG means what it currently means. relevant documentation that refers t…

[image] jnstuart: I’ve seen the term “waif” used for those documented occurrences of an animal species that has shown up maybe once or twice in an area and for which there is no evidence that it has become established. We use that word for plants too. Specimens which arrived with dumped soil,…

The zoologists probably borrowed the term from the botanists.

I’d think having a DQA question for “Is it established?” might confuse some people and they would then accidentally make things casual grade. I could see some people interpreting that as “has it established well?” - like a good root system on a tree versus a stunted, root bound tree. Or is it establ…

[image] loarie: (you can already search for captive + has_photo + lrank= genus [ie coarser than species] which also ‘need IDs’) or + sounds Is there a way to search for with (sound OR audio) without it expecting both to be true? [image] loarie: no - they represent a tiny tiny subset of …

I think trying to do this is pretty problematic. It’s really hard to determine what is “established” and what isn’t from iNat data. I’ve found multiple new populations of invasive species (animals) from iNat data that would have been flagged as “non-established” initially. These are also some of th…

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arboretum_amy September 25, 2020, 8:13pm 21

We use that word for plants too. Specimens which arrived with dumped soil, or washed down a canyon from someone’s hilltop home, etc.

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Options for the best way to handle non-established obs (e.g. escaped/released pets)

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