"Western Palearctic" should include Iceland and Svalbard

[donalddavesne]

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Step 1: The “Western Palearctic” area as currently defined should be expanded to include Iceland, Svalbard and other Arctic ocean archipelagos.

[jwidness]

This is a user-created place and iNat has no control over how individual users choose to name or define their places, sorry.

[optilete]

Diffent people have different boundaries for this area.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314265034_Global_determinants_of_zoogeographical_boundaries
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314265034_Global_determinants_of_zoogeographical_boundaries
https://forum.waarneming.nl/index.php/topic,386286.msg2076203.html#msg2076203

[pisum]

you can filter for multiple places at once:

@donalddavesne

should be expanded to include Iceland, Svalbard

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=80627,7353,7278