Vocab for native range

[peterdesmet]

There is a vocab for native range suggested in the Excel file. I have some questions and suggestions about it and would like to have it confirmed:

original value	original suggested value	new suggested value	comment
AM	pan-American	Americas	For the region, Wikipedia suggests "Americas"
NAM	Northern America	Northern America	Do we mean Northern America (US & CA) or North America (includes Mexico and Latin America)??
SAM	Southern America	South America	Is redirected on Wikipedia to South America, so would use that name.
AF	Africa	Africa
E	Europe	Europe
AUS	Australasia	Australasia	Has Wikipedia page
AS	Asia	Asia
AS-Tr	tropical Asia	Tropical Asia	Has Wikipedia page and is written with capital letter in sentences.
AS-Te	temperate Asia	Temperate Asia	Does not have Wikipedia page, just a category, where it is mentioned as a biogeographical region, with capital letters.
Trop.	Pantropical	pantropical	Is written lowercase on Wikipedia
Cult.	cultivated origin	cultivated	I don't think there is a need to indicate "origin" in native range = cultivated
Hybr.	Hybrid origin	hybridization	I think this works better as native range = hybridization
?	unknown		For the moment, any ? value is left blank and not included in the description extension

[timadriaens]

NOBANIS manual.zip

We proposed to use the NOBANIS controlled vocabulary,

N. America Canada, USA, Mexico S. America All countries south of Mexico Asia Divides to Europe along Ural/Kazakhstan, Black Sea Oceania Australia, New Zealand and the small islands out there Antarctica This is a continent from where we will probably not see too many alien species Africa The African continent Europe Divides Europe from Asia along the Ural/Kazakstan (check maps for details)

In Nobanis, this field is supplemented by a field: “Distribution details” without a controlled vocabulary e.g. Asia - temperate Asia, Europe - Ponto-Caspian region

[peterdesmet]

Ok, sounds good. But we'll need input from @qgroom and Filip to know if those can be mapped to Nobanis one to one.

[qgroom]

Meeting Filip on Friday and will bring this up. Quentin

[LienReyserhove]

We decided to use the World Geographic Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions

[damianooldoni]

While discussing standardization of native range at unified checklist level, I found species from The Manual of Alien Plants with native range values: hybrid_origin, cultivated_origin. They don't seem terms from WGSRPD. See files with such taxa in my comment: https://github.com/trias-project/unified-checklist/issues/11#issuecomment-607287434.