I want to create a project for Woody plants in the Great plains. I’ve decided to create a separate project for trees, shrubs, Woody vines and an umbrella project to include them all. I’m doing it by species and genus. It’s the only way I see to do it. Any body have anything to add. Does this sound like the right way to do it. Is like to do a project for non woody plants but don’t think there is an easy way to do that unless I could include everything not in Woody plants project.
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What?
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i think it was an autocorrect typo. non woody plants they likely meant
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I wouldn’t have a better idea to do it.
With a regular project, you can exclude taxa but you can’t exclude observations that are in another project. You can find these observations with a search though. Use “not_in_project=” with the project slug (i.e. woody-plants-of-the-north-central-plains-trees-shrubs) in the URL.
With a traditional project, you can upload a species list, but traditional projects don’t automatically gather observations.
Auto correct error. I changed to Woody.
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You are smart. Very smart. That was it and it’s corrected.
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I like the idea of using not in project. Genius. Thank you.
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Also can you please provide a link to this/these project(s)?
Euonymus fortunei is one genus/species combo that can be viney or shrubby depending on subtaxa. Why separate into the three?
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I’ve tried something similar with trees. Since trees are not a distinct taxonomic group, I ended up creating 4 collection projects (each with its own species list), then made an umbrella project to aggregate the results.
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Despite the name this project is open to ‘any trees in Africa’ (see the current journal post)
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/trees-of-southern-africa-id
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That is for trees needing an ID.
Our tree project for southern Africa is here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/trees-of-southern-africa-list
It is species based.
(and observations wont be included until they are identified).
- We also have a checklist: https://www.inaturalist.org/check_lists/1471113-Trees-of-South-Africa
(unfortunately projects cannot be created based on checklists, so we have to edit the two independently).
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This is the umbrella project: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/north-central-plains-woody-plants made up of three collection projects.
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I separated them out so people could query just trees, just shrubs or just woody vines.
that might word. Does your project ignore woody shrubs and vines?
Thank you!
Just an FYI, there seems to be some interest in these projects as a number of people joined. I especially think knowing what trees grow in the area may help people who are thinking about what to plant.
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