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[Kew botanical description](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:349913-1/general-information)", "When reproductive material is available, check for separate male and female flowers within the same inflorescence and a three-lobed capsule; use these together with foliage rather than as individually decisive tests. [Kew species profile](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:349913-1/general-information)", "For confusion with other Hevea species, compare leaflet surfaces, venation, petiole glands and floral characters against a regional botanical key; retain an unresolved identification when diagnostic material is absent.", "For a named plantation clone or suspected hybrid, require traceable propagation records or an appropriate validated identification method; tapping scars, latex output and a nursery label alone do not prove species or clone identity." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "confirmed; provisional; unresolved; conflicting", "why_it_matters": "Prevents transferring species-specific expectations to a misidentified tree." }, { "name": "Propagation and component identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to seed parent, seed lot, clone, scion donor and rootstock where known", "why_it_matters": "Keeps the identity of a grafted crown distinct from its rootstock and from unverified clone claims." }, { "name": "Establishment context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "wild; planted; spontaneous regeneration; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Changes the relevance of production, conservation and regeneration decisions." }, { "name": "Developmental and reproductive stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "seedling; juvenile; reproductively mature; declining; dead, with flowering and fruiting observations", "why_it_matters": "Separates biological maturity from readiness for commercial tapping." }, { "name": "Trunk girth", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "cm, with measurement height, date and position relative to graft union", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparable growth observations and application of locally justified tapping criteria." }, { "name": "Bark and panel reserve", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Bark thickness in mm and remaining usable panel dimensions in cm, with measurement location", "why_it_matters": "Helps judge whether further cutting would exhaust bark or damage underlying tissues." }, { "name": "Leaf-cycle state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "full canopy; shedding; leafless; flushing; hardening; abnormal loss; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Supports separation of seasonal change from damage or disease." }, { "name": "Tapping-panel condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "untapped; active; resting; regenerating; wounded; partly dry; fully dry; unassessed", "why_it_matters": "Makes harvest decisions depend on the condition of the actual panel." }, { "name": "Harvest response", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "g latex per tree per tapping; dry rubber content as mass percent; observation interval and collection method", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes latex quantity from rubber output and makes repeated observations comparable." }, { "name": "Health evidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed symptoms by organ, severity, progression and diagnostic confidence", "why_it_matters": "Separates observed damage from an inferred cause before intervention." }, { "name": "Site exposure", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to location-specific moisture, drainage, temperature, wind and management observations", "why_it_matters": "Allows tree condition to be interpreted against its actual growing environment." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify, photograph and link a tree to botanical evidence or request specialist determination.", "Monitor girth, canopy development, reproductive state and responses to site conditions.", "Assess whether a particular tapping panel should be opened, continued, rested or retired under an applicable protocol.", "Collect and attribute latex samples or harvest measurements to the tree and tapping event.", "Select and trace propagation material while preserving uncertainty about parentage and clone identity.", "Recommend investigation, care, retention or removal using recorded condition, management purpose and applicable authority." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "species-and-propagation-identity", "name": "Species and propagation identity", "description": "Evidence that the organism belongs to this registry entry and that any claimed planting identity is traceable.", "rationale": "Rubber-tree names, clone labels and grafted components can refer to different levels of biological identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "botanical-determination", "name": "Botanical determination", "description": "Recognition from diagnostic material and an explicit determination process.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-evidence", "name": "Diagnostic evidence", "description": "Record observed characters, reference material and unresolved alternatives without treating latex production as a species test.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which leaf, petiole, flower or fruit characters support identification as Hevea brasiliensis?", "kind": "definition", "id": "diagnostic-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which key, voucher or expert determination supports the identification, and what material was examined?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "diagnostic-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "What evidence would resolve confusion with another Hevea species or a hybrid?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "diagnostic-evidence-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "planting-lineage", "name": "Planting lineage", "description": "Seed origin, clone claims and the identities of graft components.", "findings": [ { "id": "rootstock-and-scion-provenance", "name": "Rootstock and scion provenance", "description": "Keep propagation history and component identity attached to the tree rather than assuming all tissues share a clone designation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was this tree raised from seed, bud-grafted or propagated by another documented method?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "rootstock-and-scion-provenance-q01" }, { "text": "Which records substantiate the seed source, rootstock identity and scion clone?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "rootstock-and-scion-provenance-q02" }, { "text": "Does the recorded identity describe the whole organism, the scion or an unverified nursery claim?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "rootstock-and-scion-provenance-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "development-and-site-response", "name": "Development and site response", "description": "Growth and phenology interpreted against the individual tree's environment.", "rationale": "Age, canopy condition and site stress affect tree use but do not independently establish tapping readiness.", "layers": [ { "id": "growth-and-leaf-cycle", "name": "Growth and leaf cycle", "description": "Comparable growth measurements and interpretation of leaf turnover.", "findings": [ { "id": "developmental-trajectory", "name": "Developmental trajectory", "description": "Record girth change, crown development and seasonal observations separately from harvest eligibility.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the tree's girth and recent girth increment at a repeatable measurement position?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "developmental-trajectory-q01" }, { "text": "Does the observed leaf shedding or flushing match this tree's local seasonal record?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "developmental-trajectory-q02" }, { "text": "What distinguishes normal leaf turnover from an abnormal decline requiring investigation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "developmental-trajectory-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "growing-site-fit", "name": "Growing site fit", "description": "Tree-specific exposure to environmental conditions and recent disturbances.", "findings": [ { "id": "site-stress-evidence", "name": "Site stress evidence", "description": "Relate observed responses to measured conditions without substituting broad climatic preferences for a local diagnosis.", "questions": [ { "text": "What moisture, drainage, temperature or wind observations coincide with changes in this tree?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "site-stress-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which evidence supports attributing the response to site stress rather than tapping or disease?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "site-stress-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "What site intervention or additional monitoring is justified by that evidence?", "kind": "action", "id": "site-stress-evidence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "latex-harvest-and-bark-renewal", "name": "Latex harvest and bark renewal", "description": "Readiness, panel use and harvest response at the individual-tree level.", "rationale": "Tapping consumes bark and requires attention to cutting depth and regeneration; useful output must be judged alongside remaining panel condition. [FAO tapping guidance](https://www.fao.org/4/AD221E/AD221E06.htm)", "layers": [ { "id": "panel-readiness", "name": "Panel readiness", "description": "Evidence and applicable criteria for opening or reopening a tapping panel.", "findings": [ { "id": "opening-and-resting-decision", "name": "Opening and resting decision", "description": "Require tree and panel measurements alongside a context-appropriate protocol rather than a universal age threshold.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the girth, bark thickness, previous wounds and available panel area?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "opening-and-resting-decision-q01" }, { "text": "Which local protocol defines readiness for this planting material and growing context?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "opening-and-resting-decision-q02" }, { "text": "Should this panel remain unopened, enter tapping, continue resting or be retired?", "kind": "action", "id": "opening-and-resting-decision-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "extraction-and-recovery", "name": "Extraction and recovery", "description": "Tapping history, measured output and the condition left after extraction.", "findings": [ { "id": "harvest-response-and-bark-budget", "name": "Harvest response and bark budget", "description": "Interpret output alongside cut pattern, frequency, stimulation history, bark consumption and recovery.", "questions": [ { "text": "What cut geometry, tapping frequency and any stimulant application preceded the observation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "harvest-response-and-bark-budget-q01" }, { "text": "How have latex mass, dry rubber content, bark consumption and the non-flowing portion of the cut changed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "harvest-response-and-bark-budget-q02" }, { "text": "What evidence supports maintaining, reducing or suspending extraction?", "kind": "action", "id": "harvest-response-and-bark-budget-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rubber-tree-health", "name": "Rubber-tree health", "description": "Organ-specific symptoms, causal uncertainty and responses affecting survival or tapping.", "rationale": "Crown disease, root damage and loss of latex flow require different investigations and should not collapse into a single poor-health label.", "layers": [ { "id": "crown-and-root-condition", "name": "Crown and root condition", "description": "Evidence of damage affecting foliage, anchorage or whole-tree vigour.", "findings": [ { "id": "symptoms-and-diagnostic-status", "name": "Symptoms and diagnostic status", "description": "Record symptom progression and tests separately from suspected causes, including suspected South American leaf blight where relevant.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which leaves, branches, collar or roots are affected, and how rapidly is damage progressing?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "symptoms-and-diagnostic-status-q01" }, { "text": "What examination or laboratory evidence supports any proposed pathogen or pest identification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "symptoms-and-diagnostic-status-q02" }, { "text": "What findings warrant specialist diagnosis or restricting movement of propagation material?", "kind": "action", "id": "symptoms-and-diagnostic-status-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "panel-dysfunction", "name": "Panel dysfunction", "description": "Local bark damage and reduced latex flow distinguished from whole-tree death or ordinary yield variation.", "findings": [ { "id": "dryness-and-wound-assessment", "name": "Dryness and wound assessment", "description": "Describe the extent and persistence of non-flowing cuts, bark lesions and cutting injury before assigning a cause.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which panel regions fail to flow or show lesions, and on how many observations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dryness-and-wound-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "What distinguishes suspected tapping-panel dryness from collection error, seasonal variation or visible injury?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dryness-and-wound-assessment-q02" }, { "text": "What observations or diagnostic advice are required before tapping resumes?", "kind": "action", "id": "dryness-and-wound-assessment-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproduction-and-propagation", "name": "Reproduction and propagation", "description": "Reproductive observations and suitability of the tree as a source of planting material.", "rationale": "Seed-derived offspring and vegetatively propagated material require different evidence about identity and establishment prospects.", "layers": [ { "id": "flowering-fruiting-and-seed", "name": "Flowering, fruiting and seed", "description": "Reproductive timing and traceability of material collected from the tree.", "findings": [ { "id": "seed-source-and-viability", "name": "Seed source and viability", "description": "Connect collected seed to its maternal tree, collection conditions and measured viability without assuming known paternity.", "questions": [ { "text": "When were flowering, fruit maturation and seed collection observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "seed-source-and-viability-q01" }, { "text": "Which parentage claims are documented, and which remain unknown?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "seed-source-and-viability-q02" }, { "text": "What collection, storage and germination evidence supports using this seed lot?", "kind": "action", "id": "seed-source-and-viability-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "vegetative-propagation", "name": "Vegetative propagation", "description": "Donor suitability and subsequent graft establishment.", "findings": [ { "id": "budwood-and-graft-suitability", "name": "Budwood and graft suitability", "description": "Assess identity, health and establishment outcomes of material selected for grafting.", "questions": [ { "text": "What identity and health evidence qualifies this tree as a budwood donor?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "budwood-and-graft-suitability-q01" }, { "text": "What observations establish graft take and distinguish scion growth from rootstock shoots?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "budwood-and-graft-suitability-q02" }, { "text": "Should the material be propagated, held for assessment or rejected?", "kind": "action", "id": "budwood-and-graft-suitability-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tree-use-and-material-boundaries", "name": "Tree use and material boundaries", "description": "Permissible uses and transitions from a living tree to harvested materials.", "rationale": "A production decline does not by itself determine whether a tree should be removed, and detached outputs need separate identities.", "layers": [ { "id": "retention-and-removal", "name": "Retention and removal", "description": "Tree-level decisions grounded in biological condition, purpose and authority.", "findings": [ { "id": "continued-use-decision", "name": "Continued-use decision", "description": "Weigh tapping prospects alongside donor, conservation and other recorded values.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this tree managed for latex, propagation, conservation, timber or another documented purpose?", "kind": "definition", "id": "continued-use-decision-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports retention, rehabilitation, cessation of tapping or removal?", "kind": "action", "id": "continued-use-decision-q02" }, { "text": "Who has authority over the tree, and what applicable restrictions affect the proposed action?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "continued-use-decision-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "harvested-material-handoff", "name": "Harvested material handoff", "description": "Attribution of detached latex, seed, budwood or timber to its source tree.", "findings": [ { "id": "output-identity-and-custody", "name": "Output identity and custody", "description": "Preserve source-tree and collection-event links while handing material condition and processing to neighbouring models.", "questions": [ { "text": "At what collection or cutting event did the material become a separately tracked object or batch?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "output-identity-and-custody-q01" }, { "text": "Which tree, panel or donor branch and collection conditions produced the material?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "output-identity-and-custody-q02" }, { "text": "Which receiving model owns subsequent viability, latex quality, timber grading or processing decisions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "output-identity-and-custody-q03" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which regional diagnostic keys and validated tests adequately distinguish Hevea brasiliensis from close relatives and commercially encountered hybrids?", "Which locally validated girth, bark, panel-recovery and seasonal criteria should govern tapping for each relevant clone and production context?", "Which diagnostic protocols and intervention thresholds reliably separate tapping-panel dryness, cutting injury, disease and temporary changes in latex flow?", "Which seed-handling limits, graft compatibility evidence and donor-health requirements apply to the planting material being modelled?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept, and how should this entry link to it and to separate latex, rubberwood and propagation-material models?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 12, "questions": 36 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organism", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Hevea brasiliensis, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Hevea brasiliensis, assess an individual tree's biological and tapping state, and select evidence-supported cultivation, propagation, harvesting or conservation actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 65 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 Hevea brasiliensis, 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 65 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 Hevea brasiliensis from another, and a Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 Hevea brasiliensis is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis, 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 Hevea brasiliensis 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 } } } }