California Native, Invasive, Endangered and Special species on iNaturalist

I have been using the Projects feature of iNaturalist to import lists of species from various third party sources like Calflora (UC Berkeley), California Native Plant Society Rare Plants, California Invasive Plant Council (CAL-IPC), and CDFW Special Plants and Animals so that it is possible to see and filter observations on iNaturalist using these third party sources. When you combine Projects and Places filters on iNaturalist, you can do some pretty interesting research.

For example here are some searches made possible with these projects

highly invasive plants in Eaton Canyon: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=162459&project_id=highly-invasive-cal-ipc&quality_grade=research&subview=map
all invasive plants in Eaton Canyon https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=162459&project_id=invasive-plants-of-california-0154614f-763d-4cf5-b23d-e569d4a07841&quality_grade=research&subview=map
native trees in Eaton Canyon: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=162459&project_id=calflora-native-trees&quality_grade=research&subview=map
rank 4 rare plants in Eaton Canyon: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=162459&project_id=cnps-rare-plants-4-1-4-2-4-3&quality_grade=research&subview=map
rank 2 rare plants in LA County: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=962&project_id=cnps-rare-plants-2a-2b&quality_grade=research&subview=map
endangered or threatened animals in LA County: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=962&project_id=cnddb-endangered-and-threatened-animals&quality_grade=research&subview=map

If you modify the filters on any of those searches you can change the Place filter to show you a different place.

Here are some umbrella projects to play with:

CDFW Special Plants and Animals https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/cdfw-special-plants-and-animals
California Native, Invasive or Endangered (All of the projects in one big project): https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/california-native-invasive-or-endangered
California Threatened and Endangered Species (combines the state Plants and Animals lists): https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/california-threatened-and-endangered-species-cdfw-cnddb
CNPS Rare Plants (all rankings): https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/cnps-rare-plants
CAL-IPC Invasive Plants (all rankings): https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/invasive-plants-of-california-0154614f-763d-4cf5-b23d-e569d4a07841
Calflora Native Plants (all categories): https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/calflora-native-plants-of-california

Some technical details for those interested: I usually start with a list of species like:

Acipenser medirostris Agelaius tricolor Ambystoma californiense

But in order to upload those to an iNaturalist project, I have to figure out the iNaturalist Taxon ID for each species. To do this I use a combination of the iNaturalist taxonomy database dump as well as the iNaturalist API for tricky cases where a taxon has been renamed. Once I have the iNaturalist Taxon ID, I can upload a list of all taxon into a project using the iNaturalist API. I used to do all of this manually, but it is very time consuming to copy and paste one species at a time into the Project Edit screen. The code I use is here https://github.com/maxogden/inaturalist-taxonomy-import

Here is a full list of all my individual projects so far for reference:

Posted on Μάιος 03, 2023 0454 ΜΜ by

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California Native, Invasive, Endangered and Special species on iNaturalist

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