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[Flora of North America](https://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=200011156)", "Inspect petiole glands and leaf surfaces: the cited flora describes glandless petioles and hairs along veins beneath the leaf, useful characters beyond overall leaf colour. [Flora of North America](https://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=200011156)", "Compare mature drupes and stones against a regional key: the cited description gives fruit 15-30 mm long, yellow to purple-red, with flattened stones; colour or size alone does not establish identity. [Flora of North America](https://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=200011156)", "Purple foliage and pink flowers can occur in ornamental cultivars, so neither defines the species nor establishes a cultivar name. [Flora of North America](https://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=200011156)", "Treat a suspected cherry-plum hybrid as an unresolved identification until parentage or diagnostic evidence supports assignment; NCBI maintains a separate record for Prunus cerasifera × Prunus salicina. [NCBI hybrid record](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?command=show&id=2315777&lvl=&mode=node)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Taxonomic identity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Prunus cerasifera Ehrh.; genus Prunus; family Rosaceae; nomenclatural date retained with its source", "why_it_matters": "Anchors observations to an accepted species while preserving disagreements over nomenclatural dates. [Plants of the World Online](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/729568-1)" }, { "name": "External taxon alignment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "NCBI Taxonomy 36595; GBIF taxon 4N8QW; source version and retrieval date", "why_it_matters": "Supports evidence exchange without confusing taxonomic backbone records with occurrence or assessment records. [NCBI](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=36595&mode=Info), [GBIF](https://www.gbif.org/taxon/4N8QW)" }, { "name": "Observation subject", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "species; population; individual tree; connected shoot; cultivar accession; graft component", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a species assessment, local tree observation and nursery label from being treated as equivalent evidence." }, { "name": "Diagnostic morphology", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Leaf, petiole, pedicel, fruit and stone dimensions in mm; organ maturity and sampling date", "why_it_matters": "Makes identification repeatable and separates measured specimens from published descriptive ranges." }, { "name": "Developmental and seasonal state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "seed; seedling; juvenile; reproductive adult; senescent; dormant; flowering; leafing; fruiting", "why_it_matters": "Explains missing identification characters and identifies useful times for follow-up observation." }, { "name": "Reproductive performance", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Flowers and fruits counted; fruit set in percent; viable seeds in percent; seedlings per surveyed area", "why_it_matters": "Separates flowering, successful reproduction and establishment when evaluating a tree or population." }, { "name": "Occurrence origin", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "native; introduced planted; escaped; naturalised; uncertain; geographic extent and evidence", "why_it_matters": "A present-day occurrence does not by itself demonstrate native distribution or a self-sustaining population." }, { "name": "Propagation and graft relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "seed-derived; vegetatively propagated; own-root; rootstock; scion; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Directs identification to the correct component of a grafted tree and prevents unsupported cultivar assignments." }, { "name": "Tree condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "vigour, crown dieback, wounds, lesions, water stress and structural defects, each dated and evidenced", "why_it_matters": "Supports proportionate care while keeping observed symptoms separate from diagnosed causes." }, { "name": "Conservation assessment context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "assessing body; category; assessment year; geographic scope; taxon concept; reference", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a regional category or an older assessment from being applied as an unqualified current global status." } ], "affordances": [ "Guide collection of seasonal photographs, measurements and vouchers for cherry-plum identification", "Reconcile nursery names, scientific synonyms and external taxon records while retaining uncertain matches", "Monitor flowering, fruiting, seedling establishment and local population change", "Evaluate planting or propagation proposals using provenance, graft identity, site evidence and local constraints", "Separate conservation, routine tree care and introduced-population management decisions", "Flag identifications or diagnoses requiring a botanist, arborist or laboratory" ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "taxon-and-name-boundaries", "name": "Taxon and name boundaries", "description": "Establish which cherry-plum species concept and nomenclatural references the registry entry represents.", "rationale": "Plum synonyms, cultivar labels and hybrid names can cause evidence from different biological subjects to be merged.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-name-and-identifiers", "name": "Accepted name and identifiers", "description": "Align the registry entry with botanical and sequence-reference taxonomies.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-species-concept", "name": "Documented species concept", "description": "Record the accepted binomial, author, original publication and external identifiers with the taxonomic treatment used.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which botanical treatment establishes the accepted name, authority and publication date for this species concept?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-species-concept-q01" }, { "text": "Do the GBIF, NCBI and botanical-name records cover the same circumscription, and which identifier versions were checked?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "documented-species-concept-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultivars-hybrids-and-components", "name": "Cultivars, hybrids and components", "description": "Separate species membership from horticultural naming and graft relationships.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-horticultural-identity", "name": "Qualified horticultural identity", "description": "Attach cultivar, hybrid and rootstock claims only to the plant or component supported by their evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the supplied cherry-plum or purple-leaf-plum name identify this species, a documented cultivar or a hybrid?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "qualified-horticultural-identity-q01" }, { "text": "If the tree is grafted, do the identified flowers, leaves and shoots belong to the rootstock or the scion?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "qualified-horticultural-identity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-recognition", "name": "Field recognition", "description": "Specify the observations needed to distinguish cherry plum from nearby plums and ornamental lookalikes.", "rationale": "Seasonal characters and horticultural variation make a single photograph or common name unreliable.", "layers": [ { "id": "vegetative-evidence", "name": "Vegetative evidence", "description": "Inspect leaves, petioles, twigs, branching and the origin of basal shoots.", "findings": [ { "id": "vegetative-character-combination", "name": "Vegetative character combination", "description": "Use a regional key and several vegetative characters while recording seasonal and cultivar-related limitations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What leaf dimensions, margin form, petiole glands and lower-surface hairs are visible on mature leaves?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "vegetative-character-combination-q01" }, { "text": "Which local alternatives, including Prunus spinosa and Prunus domestica, remain possible without flowers or fruit?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "vegetative-character-combination-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "flower-fruit-and-stone-evidence", "name": "Flower, fruit and stone evidence", "description": "Use reproductive structures to strengthen or challenge a provisional identification.", "findings": [ { "id": "seasonally-supported-identification", "name": "Seasonally supported identification", "description": "Record flower arrangement, timing relative to leaves, mature fruit measurements and stone form from the same identified subject.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many flowers occur together, and did flowering begin before, during or after leaf emergence?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "seasonally-supported-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Do mature fruit and stone characters support Prunus cerasifera under the selected regional key?", "kind": "definition", "id": "seasonally-supported-identification-q02" }, { "text": "Which additional seasonal observation or voucher would resolve the remaining identification uncertainty?", "kind": "action", "id": "seasonally-supported-identification-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "development-and-regeneration", "name": "Development and regeneration", "description": "Describe the state and reproductive contribution of cherry-plum trees without assuming that every visible stem is an independent individual.", "rationale": "Flowering, fruit production, seedling recruitment and vegetative spread support different conclusions about persistence.", "layers": [ { "id": "life-stage-and-phenology", "name": "Life stage and phenology", "description": "Track development and seasonal events for a dated tree observation.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-specific-state", "name": "Stage-specific state", "description": "Distinguish developmental maturity from temporary seasonal state and investigate floral function instead of assigning unsupported male and female tree classes.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence distinguishes a juvenile tree from a mature tree that is currently dormant or not flowering?", "kind": "definition", "id": "stage-specific-state-q01" }, { "text": "What floral sexual organs and functional fertility are documented, and is any claimed sexual dimorphism supported for this accession?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stage-specific-state-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "pollination-and-establishment", "name": "Pollination and establishment", "description": "Connect reproductive events to viable offspring and independently established plants.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-and-clonal-contribution", "name": "Reproductive and clonal contribution", "description": "Evaluate pollination evidence, fruit set, viable seeds and the origin of new shoots separately.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes self-compatibility or compatible pollen partners for the particular accession?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reproductive-and-clonal-contribution-q01" }, { "text": "Are nearby young plants seed-derived recruits, connected suckers or intentionally planted stock?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "reproductive-and-clonal-contribution-q02" }, { "text": "What measured fruit set and seedling survival support a claim of successful local regeneration?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproductive-and-clonal-contribution-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-habitat-and-conservation", "name": "Range, habitat and conservation", "description": "Locate cherry-plum populations within documented distribution, establishment history and assessment boundaries.", "rationale": "Long cultivation history complicates native-range inference, while conservation categories apply to specified geographic and taxonomic scopes.", "layers": [ { "id": "occurrence-and-habitat", "name": "Occurrence and habitat", "description": "Separate geographic presence from origin and establishment, and record conditions at the observed site.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidenced-population-origin", "name": "Evidenced population origin", "description": "Record locality, habitat, planting history and regeneration evidence before classifying a population as native or naturalised.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which flora, voucher series or historical evidence supports native versus introduced status at this locality?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidenced-population-origin-q01" }, { "text": "What light, soil moisture, drainage, elevation and disturbance conditions characterise the occupied site?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "evidenced-population-origin-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "assessment-scope", "name": "Assessment scope", "description": "Keep conservation assessments distinct from local abundance, ornamental planting frequency and introduced-range impacts.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-conservation-status", "name": "Qualified conservation status", "description": "Resolve the category, date and geographic scope directly from the assessment; GBIF cites a 2018 IUCN assessment, while EUNIS presents regional and global status separately. [GBIF assessment record](https://www.gbif.org/cs/dataset/19491596-35ae-4a91-9a98-85cf505f1bd3/taxon/172162), [EUNIS](https://eunis.eea.europa.eu/species/179699)", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the latest applicable IUCN category, assessment year and geographic scope, and has the original assessment been read?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "qualified-conservation-status-q01" }, { "text": "Does the proposed intervention affect a wild native population, planted collection or introduced population with documented local impacts?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "qualified-conservation-status-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultivation-condition-and-intervention", "name": "Cultivation, condition and intervention", "description": "Connect cherry-plum identification and condition to specific planting, propagation and care decisions.", "rationale": "The appropriate action depends on whether the subject is a wild tree, ornamental accession, rootstock or regenerating population.", "layers": [ { "id": "planting-and-propagation", "name": "Planting and propagation", "description": "Evaluate intended function, provenance and propagation method before selecting material.", "findings": [ { "id": "fit-for-intended-use", "name": "Fit for intended use", "description": "Require accession-specific evidence for ornamental traits, fruit production and graft compatibility rather than treating the species name as a performance guarantee.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the intended function ornamental display, fruit production, rootstock use or conservation of a documented wild provenance?", "kind": "definition", "id": "fit-for-intended-use-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports the chosen propagation method, desired trait retention and any proposed scion compatibility?", "kind": "action", "id": "fit-for-intended-use-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-management-response", "name": "Condition and management response", "description": "Translate observed symptoms, structural condition and regeneration into justified interventions.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-led-tree-management", "name": "Evidence-led tree management", "description": "Document the affected tree component, observed problem and desired outcome before prescribing care or population control.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dated observations establish crown decline, water stress, injury or suspected disease, and which causes remain unconfirmed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidence-led-tree-management-q01" }, { "text": "Should the next step be monitoring, diagnostic sampling, adjusted care, sucker management or specialist assessment, given the tree's role and local context?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-led-tree-management-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; 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every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Fresh fruit and cooked preserves, sauces and jams", "Ornamental planting for early blossom and, in some cultivars, purple foliage", "Rootstocks for cultivated plums and some other stone fruits", "Breeding material for plum cultivars and hybrids", "Hedging and shelter planting" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Prunus cerasifera this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Mature plant height", "typical_range": "Approximately 5-10", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Fruit diameter", "typical_range": "Approximately 2-3", "unit": "cm" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Prunus cerasifera this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; 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Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Prunus cerasifera, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise Prunus cerasifera, distinguish species-level knowledge from observations of particular trees and populations, and evaluate appropriate monitoring, cultivation or conservation actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 72 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a Prunus cerasifera, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 72 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Prunus cerasifera from another, and a Prunus cerasifera from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a Prunus cerasifera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a Prunus cerasifera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Prunus cerasifera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a Prunus cerasifera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a Prunus cerasifera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Prunus cerasifera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a Prunus cerasifera sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a Prunus cerasifera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a Prunus cerasifera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Prunus cerasifera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a Prunus cerasifera from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Prunus cerasifera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Prunus cerasifera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Prunus cerasifera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a Prunus cerasifera is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a Prunus cerasifera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a Prunus cerasifera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a Prunus cerasifera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and life stages", "description": "The parts of a Prunus cerasifera and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Prunus cerasifera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a Prunus cerasifera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a Prunus cerasifera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a Prunus cerasifera is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Prunus cerasifera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a Prunus cerasifera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a Prunus cerasifera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a Prunus cerasifera is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a Prunus cerasifera is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Prunus cerasifera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a Prunus cerasifera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a Prunus cerasifera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a Prunus cerasifera moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a Prunus cerasifera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a Prunus cerasifera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a Prunus cerasifera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a Prunus cerasifera passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a Prunus cerasifera between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Prunus cerasifera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a Prunus cerasifera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Prunus cerasifera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a Prunus cerasifera, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Prunus cerasifera is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a Prunus cerasifera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Prunus cerasifera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Prunus cerasifera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-placement", "name": "Taxonomic placement and identification", "description": "What Prunus cerasifera is called scientifically, by whose authority, and how a specimen is recognised.", "rationale": "Names change with revisions while the organism does not, so a name without its authority and date cannot be reconciled later.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-name", "name": "Accepted name and synonymy", "description": "The current binomial, its author and date, and the names it replaced.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-and-authority", "name": "Accepted name, authority and synonyms", "description": "What to record so a later revision can be applied without losing the old data.", "questions": [ { "id": "name-and-authority-q01", "text": "What is the accepted scientific name of Prunus cerasifera, with its author and year, and which synonyms does it absorb?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "name-and-authority-q02", "text": "Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-identification", "name": "Field identification", "description": "The characters that separate Prunus cerasifera from what it is confused with.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters", "name": "Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds", "description": "Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.", "questions": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q01", "text": "Which observable characters distinguish Prunus cerasifera from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q02", "text": "What evidence is enough to record an identification as confirmed rather than provisional?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-cycle-and-condition", "name": "Life stages, condition and behaviour", "description": "What Prunus cerasifera does over its life and how its state is judged.", "rationale": "Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.", "layers": [ { "id": "stages-and-reproduction", "name": "Stages and reproduction", "description": "Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.", "findings": [ { "id": "life-stages", "name": "Life stages and their marks", "description": "The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "life-stages-q01", "text": "What stages does Prunus cerasifera pass through, and what observable change marks each transition?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "life-stages-q02", "text": "Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are mistaken for another kind?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-condition", "name": "Health and condition", "description": "How condition is assessed and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition assessment", "description": "Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "How is the condition of Prunus cerasifera judged, on what scale, and by whom?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-and-status", "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status", "description": "Where Prunus cerasifera lives and how threatened it is.", "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitat-and-range", "name": "Habitat and range", "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-record", "name": "Range, introductions and habitat", "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.", "questions": [ { "id": "range-record-q01", "text": "What is the native range of Prunus cerasifera, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "range-record-q02", "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-status", "name": "Protection and legal status", "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-and-rules", "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence", "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.", "questions": [ { "id": "status-and-rules-q01", "text": "What conservation status does Prunus cerasifera hold, under which assessment and year?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "status-and-rules-q02", "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Prunus cerasifera came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a Prunus cerasifera and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Prunus cerasifera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a Prunus cerasifera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Prunus cerasifera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a Prunus cerasifera is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Prunus cerasifera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a Prunus cerasifera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a Prunus cerasifera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }