How to categorize other conservation statuses and record information about the ecology of a taxonomy for a location

[beausoleilmo]

I'm interested in using building a species checklist as presented in this guide. In particular, I would like to add conservation statuses from different sources and to record information about a taxon (i.e., if it's reproducing [or not], but not because it is an exotic species; if the species is migratory or not, etc.).

For the conservation status, here are the sources or complementary information interesting to add:

1. NatureServe 'Global Conservation Status Ranks'
2. The conservation status from a local government (based on some legislation)
3. who is the authority on the conservation status
4. Which government (federal, provincial, local, ...) or branch is the steward of that taxon.

Currently, I see that the threatStatus with examples "EX" "EW" "CR", which are the threat status defined by IUCN (https://www.iucnredlist.org/resources/categories-and-criteria see https://rs.gbif.org/extension/gbif/1.0/distribution_2022-02-02.xml)

Also, I'd like to record information about each taxon :

1. Note if it's reproducing (or not) in the location
2. Note if the species is migrating.

Thank you!

[tucotuco]

@mdoering Do you have any suggestions?

[mdoering]

Indeed the Distribution extension is what people use when dealing with DwC Archives. Specifically the threatStatus (conservation status), locality/countryCode, degreeOfEstablishment (reproducing) and source (for authority) fields in your case. For any country or region you create a separate distribution record with locality=global for a global conservation status.

Even though we expect IUCN values you could place your NatureServe values in there, but it won't be understood by GBIF and friends.

Indicating that a taxon is migrating would probably be best done with MeasurementsAndFacts.

I would like to point out the ongoing discussion about an improved Distribution model in ColDP. It is a good chance to influence that design. And there is TaxonProperty to publish things migrating.

[beausoleilmo]

Cool! The idea here is to make it easier to generate standard biodiversity lists such as this one : https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/dataset/liste-de-la-faune-vertebree-du-quebec. These list are very interesting as they are constructed from a government authority. It would also help steer the focus to GBIF to get biodiversity related data.