Found this by accident, I don’t think it is expected behaviour. Process to replicate: I was adding an endemic status flag to a species, which had none set at all. In this case marking a species as endemic to Vietnam. After saving the endemic flag, it auto-created a record marking the species as E…

I think this is currently intended behavior, for better or worse. The key is in the last sentence of the fine print on the curator cascading tool: “This will change the establishment means of all listings of this taxon on all descendant places of Vietnam. Only curators can use this tool. Changing…

Just to be clear, part of my confusion is the inconsistent behaviour - Introduced flag leading to auto-population, while the Endemic flag does not. Not sure which is optimal, but I’d expect consistency.

Unintended cascading of establishment means

Bug Reports

Topic		Replies	Views
What does the 'Apply establishment means to descendent places' button (in check lists) actually do? Curators	9	505	August 18, 2023
Erroneous Introduced Status Populates "Lower" Places General	8	1086	January 12, 2022
Species listed as introduced when they are not Curators	18	2270	August 27, 2019
Remove Ability to Apply Status to Descendant Places Feature Requests web , curation	6	1080	August 30, 2019
Automatically apply introduced status to descendant taxa in a place Feature Requests	4	319	March 19, 2024

Unintended cascading of establishment means

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