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emf-creaf / forestables

Read and uniformize forest inventories data from the FIA (USA forest inventory), FFI (France forest inventory) and IFN (Spain forest inventory) from R
https://emf-creaf.github.io/forestables/
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Spanish IFN codes with no species name #21

Open miquelcaceres opened 2 months ago

miquelcaceres commented 2 months ago

At present, forestables works with an ad-hoc thesaurus for species codes. This table does not include all codes that are cited in tree/understory/regen data of IFN files. We believe the reason is that there is no official species codification (Documentador de Campo does not include all taxa), but may also be due to mistakes in species codes in plot data. The Spanish Ministry should be queried about this question, so that forestables bases species names on an official list.

MalditoBarbudo commented 2 months ago

Nothing we can do until they provide an official list. This is not going to happen soon (if ever), so we work with the second best option, a custom / ad hoc thesaurus. Yes, there will be unusable data due to missing species names, but that is a problem due to the inventory files data and metadata, not due to forestables.