Fruit-Bearing Plant Species Observations in Brazilian Cities (iNaturalist)
iNaturalist observations of fruit-bearing plants across all 27 Brazilian state capitals, with 47 columns of taxonomic, temporal and spatial metadata.
- Size
- 6.0 MB
- Format
- CSV
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Access
- Open Access
- Source
- Zenodo (record 8273049)
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Challenge
Which Brazilian state capitals show the richest recorded diversity of fruit-bearing plants on iNaturalist, and how much of each city's record is wild versus human-cultivated (a proxy for native vs introduced)?
- Where to start
- Load /srv/data/fruit-plants-brazil/observations_22-08-2023.csv with pandas using sep=';' (it is semicolon-separated with a UTF-8 BOM; the latitude/longitude columns are corrupted, so ignore them). Derive a city column by substring-matching the free-text place_guess against the 27 state-capital names, then group by city and count distinct taxon_species_name for richness. Split each city by the boolean captive_cultivated field, and explore taxon_family_name and the parsed observed_on date for the taxonomic and seasonal picture.
- What to share
- A ranked chart of capitals by distinct-species richness (shown alongside observation effort so diversity isn't just a headcount of active users), a wild-vs-cultivated breakdown for the top cities, and a short note on whether each city's diversity is driven by cultivated/introduced fruit plants or wild native flora.
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