reproductiveCondition about natagora-occurrences

[LienReyserhove]

Thanks for the input.
I can follow your arguments, I have thought this through and found it a very difficult exercise.
I would approach it a bit differently though, and more in line with how the data was mapped for Natuurpunt. This is what I think:

1. reproductiveCondition: I would use this term to refer to the physiological state of the individual (or population)
2. behavior: all behavioral remarks, even those related to reproduction (but not the physiological state)
3. occurrenceRemarks: all other
4. Use a new term: lifeStage. We will probably need to translate this to a fixed vocabulary (young, egg,...)

What do you say?

Also: @peterdesmet: reproductiveCondition should have a fixed vocabulary (see quick reference guide). I couldn't find on the GBIF resources page though...

reproductiveCondition	behavior	occurrenceRemarks	lifeStage
queen	territorial behavior	adult in territory	recently hatched young
worker	transporting feed or faeces	near nest	found as egg mass
winged gyne	nest buidling	colony in trees	found as cocoon
unwinged gyne	distraction display	colony
with broodpatch	copulating	found as nest
	laying egg	occupied nest
	courtship/mating	occupied nest with young
		pair in territory
		probably nesting place
		recently used nest
		found as substrate with miner damage
		found as gall
		abandoned nest

[peterdesmet]

Indeed, there is no GBIF controlled vocabulary, so we made one for Natuurpunt datasets (in line with the Darwin Core examples). It indicates the reproductive state of the individual.

dead aboveground material
flowering
fruit-bearing
queen
reproductive
seedling
spore-bearing
sprouting
unwinged gyne
vegetative
winged gyne
worker

As there was no value for pregnant in the Natuurpunt datasets, we at first only used it for plant species. We later extended it to values for social insects (which also indicate their reproductive state).

One could argue to also include breeding (or lumping it in reproductive) in reproductiveCondition, deriving it from other values in behavior and occurrenceRemarks. For Natuurpunt datasets, we opted to just include the behavior and/or occurrenceRemarks, and not additionally map to reproductiveCondition.

[peterdesmet]

Note: I've uploaded the controlled vocabularies we use for Natuurpunt datasets for:

• samplingProtocol
• behavior
• lifeStage
• occurrenceRemarks
• reproductiveCondition

[LouisNatagora]

So I assume

• "found as cocoon" gives "pupa" (in LifeStage)

• "found as egg mass" gives "egg"

[LouisNatagora]

As Peter said in a comment to another issue, "recently hatched young" is often selected by observers when they see both adults and young.
Do I stay with this (and then use "Recently hatched young" in occurrenceRemarks) ?

[peterdesmet]

@LouisNatagora

• found as cocoon: map as such in occurrenceRemarks + in addition, could be mapped as pupa in lifeStage (not done for Natuurpunt datasets, but would be good) 👌
• found as egg mass: map as such in occurrenceRemarks + in addition, could be mapped as egg in lifeStage (not done for Natuurpunt datasets, but would be good) 👌
• recently hatched young: map as such in occurrenceRemarks, no additional mapping required (so nothing in lifeStage)

[LouisNatagora]

Thank you for the controlled vocabulary. I suggest to add 'pregnant' to reproductiveCondition.
I added it for mammals (from typeAct).

[peterdesmet]

Didn’t see that value in the Natuurpunt data, but it’s perfectly valid value to add. 👌