Table 6 Structure of the taxonomic_updates table, of all taxonomic changes implemented in the construction of AusTraits. Changes are determined by comparing against the APC (Australian Plant Census) and APNI (Australian Plant Name Index).
From: AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora
key | value |
|---|---|
dataset_id | Primary identifier for each study contributed into AusTraits; most often these are scientific papers, books, or online resources. By default should be name of first author and year of publication, e.g. ‘Falster_2005’. |
original_name | Name given to taxon in the original data supplied by the authors |
cleaned_name | Name of the taxon after implementing any changes encoded for this taxon in the metadata file for the correpsonding ‘dataset_id’. |
taxonIDClean | Where it could be identified, the ‘taxonID’ of the ‘cleaned_name’ for this taxon in the APC. |
taxonomicStatusClean | Taxonomic status of the taxon identified by ‘taxonIDClean’ in the APC. |
alternativeTaxonomicStatusClean | The status of alternative records with the name ‘cleaned_name’ in the APC. |
acceptedNameUsageID | ID of the accepted name for taxon in the APC or APNI. |
taxon_name | Currently accepted name of taxon in the APC or in the APNI . |
