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Data cleaning and organization for CESAB FUNCTIONALWEBS papers
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The Mystery of Discovery Bay #4

Open aammd opened 7 years ago

aammd commented 7 years ago

This site has been in the database for almost a year.. and yet there seem to be no bromeliads in it yet! Will we one day have bromeliad data to put in here? If not, I suggest that we delete it.

@dsrivast @kinwa91 @adletaw @cereghino

aammd commented 7 years ago

@dsrivast @cereghino @kinwa91 @adletaw

May I delete Discovery Bay? Jurek Kolasa is apparently in charge but I do not see their contact information

dsrivast commented 7 years ago

Why do you want to delete Discovery Bay? I know its a pain to pull it out of analyses, but it contributes information to the species pool for Jamaica..

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May I delete Discovery Bay? Jurek Kolasa is apparently in charge but I do not see their contact information

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aammd commented 7 years ago

@dsrivast hmm this is interesting.

contributes information to the species pool for Jamaica

I'm trying to think how that can be true. There are 0 species listed for Discovery Bay. In the structure of the database ( @kinwa91 @adletaw am I right about this?) A site has a declared number of species, which is then used to fill in the bromeliad x species dataset.

So did the Discovery Bay species disappear somehow? Are there species in the Species table which are not in any site? This would concern me. That means that the functional richness of the Jamaica species pool would be lower than it should be.

This could be solved either by a) tracking down those "orphan" species b) adding the Discovery Bay bromeliads. The latter solution would be best! can we somehow get those numbers?