Taxon attribute to know its habitat

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Is there a way to know the habitat of a given taxon (or just species) inside iNat database?

I don’t know if habitat is the right word though. I want to know, for example, if a species is marine, terrestrial, fluvial, or multiple. This information would be useful to create a range map of the species. This would prevent having marine life on top of mountains.

I guess the information must be somewhere as range maps seems to be properly constrained to each species habitat. Or maybe range maps are made manually by the community?

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I don’t know the most appropriate way to do it, but certainly some regions have habitat projects. Southern Africa has a habitats project (linked below), where an observation includes a habitat category as an observation field.

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/habitats-s-afr

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https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/introducing-the-inaturalist-geomodel/45407

and also

https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/84677

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This is interesting indeed, thanks for your answer.

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Thanks, I didn’t know about this feature. The statistical model seems really powerful. Those data are available somewhere?

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You can search the Forum and iNat’s blog posts for Geomodel and Computer Vision. Many discussions running.

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