Habitats in southern Africa
[ work in progress ]
Please fill in the biome level habitats for your observation.
Natural Terrestrial Systems:
Afrotemperate Forest
Albany Thicket
Caves
Desert
Eastern Coast Belt Forest
Fynbos
Grassveld
Nama Karoo
Renosterveld
Savanna: Arid
Savanna: Brachystegia
Savanna: Koakoveld
Savanna: Moist
Strandveld
Subantarctic Tundra
Succulent Karoo
Natural Terrestrial Wetland Systems:
Aquatic
Estuaries
Littoral
Wetland
Natural Marine Systems:
Coral Reef
Deep Reef
Littoral
Marine Benthic
Marine Canyon
Marine Pelagic
Human transformed Systems:
Cropland
Dwellings
Gardens
Plantation
Urban
Wasteland
Zoos & Aquaria
Comments
Good stuff!
Glad to see they're now alphabetical.
What's the difference between Grassveld and Savanna:Moist/Arid?
How would one record E. Coastal Grassland? (Those precious bits left not choked with sugarcane).
Ta, P
Grassveld = no trees; Savanna = wooded grassland. I am going to above add in the definitions, and if able I will link them to habitat pages. - still exploring
E. Coastal Grassland = Grassveld.
Sugarcane = Cropland
Mannings Wildflowers of SA is not bad but summary to help astrophysicists, computer nerds and so on would be really useful. We have no education in earthly matters. But even Manning does not describe all these types of Savannas that you have. A map would be helpful but then why can it not be deduced from the coordinates.
We have copy, but we can only put it up when we have our own site ("network"). So please hang 10.
Why not deduce habitats from coordinates: because that will be one outside of iNaturalist and we wont be able to report on habitat frequencies on this site. Furthermore some obvious habitat types (e.g. forest or wetland) are not properly mapped and cannot be deduced.
I have been trying for hours to add to my single observation so far, the Habitats (s Afr) Project label without success. Please explain how this is accomplished.
Thanks,
Jan
This is a two step process.
Step 1. Join the project - a once off (and see what other projects you want to join): https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/user/tonyrebelo
Open a project of interest
Click on Join the Project on the uppermost right hand side of the project
The project is now loaded into your “basket”
Do so for each project you are interested in (you can come back and add more in the future if you want).
Step 2+. On any observation (yours or anyone’s) add the project
A: within the project - - see on right: Projects (add a project).
add Habitat (s afr) – type habit and it will autocomplete: click
select the habitat
“add” the habitat
“add to projects” to save the project on your observation.
B: when uploading data (either on an observation or bulk observations).
First add the Observation field Habitat (s Afr)
then add the project Habitats (s Afr).
Thank you!
Is it possible to batch edit already made observations and assign them to this project? Doing this one-by-one for hundreds is just too time consuming. I've tried but the site requires assigning to a particular habitat and that doesn't seem possible in batch edit.
Yes: batch edits are quite easy, although the process seems involved (lots of clicks really). Instructions are here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/26289-proforma-cribsheet#activity_comment_4525401
(there is another version that some people find difficult to follow in the posting immediately prior to this).
But basically it is a two step process.
1. Add the Habitat (s Afr) data field.
[NB there are confusing lookalikes: you must use the one with the dropdown habitats]
2. Add the Project.
The problem with Batch editing is that the observations should all be from the same habitat. This can be managed by ticking and unticking observations in the selection phase for step 1 , and then repeating for the different habitats. Run step 2 to clear finished observations (and ignore the error messages) so that you can filter those still needing attention with this filter:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/your_name?not_in_project=habitats-s-afr (substitute your_name with faerout)
@tonyrebelo Thank you. That's very clear. I was able to do it.
Now I just have to make sure I'm placing them in the right habitat. I've seen descriptions of the habitats, but I'm not entirely confident I'll be correct for all of my observations.
What is the difference between adding observations to this project vs adding it as an observation field? If it’s in the observation field it doesn’t show up in the project.
Secondly, is this project more of interest for terrestrial habitats? Just want to know if I’m wasting my time adding habitat to wetland and aquatic observations.
The project is to facilitate adding the observation field. Yes, please add wetland and aquatic observations and their fields.
If you add the Observation Field, then we can automatically add the project at a future date. But we cannot add the project without the Observation Field, and we dont know the observation field unless you add it.
But please, grant the curators access to your obscured coordinates for Red List and Conservation assessments by SANBI and CREW
@tonyrebelo please could you add a habitat field for enclosed fields/paddocks/kraals where there is intensive grazing and dung fertilisation by goats/sheep/cattle. Surely this habitat develops a unique though limited flora that should be recorded.
Thank you.
Not at this broad level. Use cropland for larger fields and paddocks and wasteland for kraals.
Not a bad idea: but where do we stop?
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