ramonawalls
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7 years ago Also need to make sure that definitions in BCO match what is in paper.
1) Restricted Search: A taxonomic inventory process that is restricted to plots, transects, or points, in which a person or group of people is comprehensively covering the entire area, usually with a well-described survey time or pace. The search is restricted to a defined and human-scale geospatial area (usually traversable within a time course of less than a day) within which there is an expectation of a comprehensive accounting of the taxonomic items of interest.
2) Open Search: A taxonomic inventory process in which the search is restricted within a larger defined geographic area, but where effort isn't even or complete across the region, and thus not a comprehensive accounting of taxa of interest. Temporal duration is typically longer than restricted searches, lasting hours to several days.
3) Opportunistic Search: A taxonomic inventory process that is a more casual reporting of occurrences of taxa of interest, still intended to be a comprehensive accounting of the taxa of interest, but with no pre-specified investment of effort nor planned trajectory for discovery, thus of often idiosyncratic length or spatial scope.
4) Trap or sample inventory: A taxonomic inventory process that is typically restricted in geospatial extent that involves either the physical extraction of some evidence of the presence of the taxa of interest, such as a whole organisms, scat, fur, other material samples or information artifacts such as photographs or sound recordings
5) Incidental/adventitious: A taxonomic inventory process in which taxon occurrences are recorded as co-variates of another study, or by happenstance, and later compiled as a taxonomic inventory.
When the paper comes out. Right now they point to the outdated Google spreadsheet.