Table 5 Taxonomic descriptors in the POSTDIV database.
Column name | Descriptor |
|---|---|
Tax.name | Unique identifier (see Table 3) |
Kingdom | Taxonomic rank (Plantae, Animalia, Protista) |
Phylum | Taxonomic rank |
Subphylum | Taxonomic rank |
Class | Taxonomist rank (for plants: Magnoliopsida and clades Monocots and Eudicots) |
Subclass | Taxonomic rank |
Order | Taxonomic rank |
Suborder | Taxonomic rank |
Family | Taxonomic rank |
Subfamily | Taxonomic rank |
Genus | Taxonomic rank |
Subgenus | Taxonomic rank |
Species | Binomial species name (equates with the Tax.name for records identified to species level) |
NCBI | ID in the NCBI taxonomy database (National Center for Biotechnology Information) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi; for animals only. For plants, we followed the taxonomic criteria by Mateo and collaborator30,31. |
