I work mainly in urban landscapes, and most of my observations are of plants. I frequently run into the problem of whether to consider a plant “cultivated”, and I’ve become frustrated with the ambiguity of the category, particularly in urban contexts where various forms and degrees of cultivation ar…

I think that’s a bit too broad about scientists not being interested in the distribution of cultivated plants. Here’s a link to a paper that used cultivated plant distributions to learn about species’ fundamental niche in regard to climate change: Sax, D. F., R. Early, and J. Bellemare. 2013. Nich…

I didn’t read the whole thread and I apologize ahead of time if anything I say here is redundant. I just want to give my two cents on this fascinating topic because I’ve thought about it a lot (and because I like to read my own comments I guess!). The main thing I want to say is that the current s…

I’ve wondered about re-seeded areas, such as native wildflower lots or reforested areas. They were planted by humans, but for the purpose of re-establishing a wild space.

@andy71 Thanks for that in depth and thoughtful post. I too think that, generally speaking, a plant is a plant (I do plants, mostly). On the Google group site, I recall a post about a class project on the local honeybee population. Knowing what flowers were around was critical. Bees don’t care wh…

Super post @andy71 , all great points and well said! Thank you for adding your voice to the forum.

[image] mreith: Well, if handling the filters is easy for “ID people”, why not show other people unfiltered results as a standard? [image] saturnring: Maybe it could be an Account Setting for “all” or for just “captive/cultivated” that these biologists and other scientists could select on…

Hi I’m new using the app and this is bugging me a lot, I get that a tomato garden or a corn field or a potted plant which are nurtured is not very interesting scientifically, but a tree planted decades ago that’s sustaining itself without even being watered is another thing altogether. The cultivate…

RG is just a measured state, it doesn’t stop observations that are not RG from being used for research. All it means is that if it is RG status, then certain criteria have been met. Whether something is cultivated or wild is a DQA assessment, which means that everyone can put their vote, and the maj…

There has often been calls for “we need more states than just captive/cultivated”. Some even spelling out a long list of categories around 10 long. All it would do is make the application of that DQA too onerous, and therefore rarely used effectively, rendering it useless. At most I think 1 more cat…

It doesn’t matter one bit for conservation if it is impossible to map the natural range of a plant on iNaturalist! Conservation agencies should no way uncritically use data from iNat to make conservation management decisions! They can use it as a guide, but not uncritically. You (and others) might w…

The category of "cultivated" is problematic for plants in urban landscapes

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I submitted a Feature Request here that might help.

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The category of "cultivated" is problematic for plants in urban landscapes

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