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Species page: assign additional conservation status codes #173

Closed jnga closed 12 years ago

jnga commented 12 years ago

At the start of Iteration 25 it was reported that Carex folliculata is assigned a conservation status code of WL in New Hampshire but this is not showing up on the species page.

Looking through the data, there are three status codes not being handled yet: WL, W, and Ind.

Discussed with Bill. WL and W both stand for "Watch List," and "Ind" stands for Indetermintate. All indicate a borderline rare status, so the decision is to map these three status codes to the category "rare" on the species page for now.

Also discussed was that the precise definitions of the codes and categories vary from state to state, and that it might be a good idea to mention that to the user, perhaps in a note at the top of the table. Finally, more of the categories could use a glossary definition to help explain them: currently only "invasive" and "prohibited" have glossary tooltips.

(This is listed under item 7 in the Iteration 26 doc.)

jnga commented 12 years ago

Added more glossary entries for the conservation status codes, so they will show up with tooltips in the table (gobotany-deploy commit cb60156d3e).