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compound adult leaves, large pendulous white flowers, and woody fruits containing seeds embedded in dry, powdery pulp.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the species-level recognition criteria and recording requirements for Adansonia digitata (vr.tr.adansonia-digitata, PHY / PHY.OBJ), with observations attached to individual trees or populations and uncertainty retained where identification or condition is unresolved.", "in_scope": [ "Species identification across seedlings, mature trees and seasonal leaf states", "Individual-tree architecture, dimensions, phenology and observable condition", "Habitat, establishment context, reproduction and recruitment", "Relationships between trees, pollinators, seed dispersers and human use", "Evidence needed to judge propagation, harvest and tree-care actions" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Other Adansonia species except as identification comparators", "Generic plant physiology and tree-care procedures owned by broader models", "Processed baobab foods, 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cylinders." }, { "name": "Tree height and crown spread", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "m, with method and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Describes the individual and helps track crown change and nearby exposure." }, { "name": "Phenological state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "leafless | leaf emergence | full foliage | leaf shedding; flower and fruit stages recorded separately", "why_it_matters": "Prevents seasonal leaflessness from being interpreted automatically as decline." }, { "name": "Establishment context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "naturally established | planted | naturalised | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates occurrence from evidence about natural distribution and regeneration." }, { "name": "Site moisture and drainage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "dated soil-moisture observations, drainage description and flooding history", "why_it_matters": "Provides context for establishment, seasonal responses and possible stress." }, { "name": "Reproductive outcome", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "flower, fruit and seedling counts per defined tree, area and observation period", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes flowering from successful fruit production and subsequent recruitment." }, { "name": "Damage and crown condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "mapped wounds, bark removal, cavities, branch loss and crown dieback, with dates and severity", "why_it_matters": "Supports change detection without inferring cause or structural safety from one symptom." }, { "name": "Use and custodianship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "tree or population linked to custodians, users, permissions and documented practices", "why_it_matters": "Determines who may authorise collection, access or intervention." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify a candidate African baobab and request missing diagnostic evidence.", "Record comparable trunk, crown and seasonal observations for a particular tree.", "Assess whether a population shows successful recruitment beyond fruit production.", "Plan documented seed collection and propagation using locally supported methods and permissions.", "Evaluate proposed leaf, fruit or bark collection against tree condition and local evidence.", "Flag changes requiring botanical or arboricultural assessment." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "species-recognition", "name": "Species recognition", "description": "Establish whether a candidate tree belongs to Adansonia digitata.", "rationale": "Common names, juvenile foliage and the shared baobab growth form can obscure species identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "diagnostic-evidence", "name": "Diagnostic evidence", "description": "Record the organs and observations supporting identification.", "findings": [ { "id": "combined-organ-identification", "name": "Combined organ identification", "description": "Evaluate foliage, flowers, fruit and architecture together, retaining photographs or specimen references.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed leaf, flower and fruit characters support Adansonia digitata under the identification reference used?", "kind": "definition", "id": "combined-organ-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Which diagnostic organs were unavailable, and what evidence would resolve the remaining identification uncertainty?", "kind": "action", "id": "combined-organ-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-and-occurrence-context", "name": "Taxonomic and occurrence context", "description": "Separate taxonomic identity from common naming and planting history.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-and-origin-record", "name": "Identity and origin record", "description": "Attach the taxonomic authority, determination history and known establishment context to the candidate.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which taxonomic reference and dated determination support the recorded species name?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identity-and-origin-record-q01" }, { "text": "Could this be another cultivated Adansonia species, and what evidence excludes that possibility?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "identity-and-origin-record-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "baobab-architecture-and-condition", "name": "Baobab architecture and condition", "description": "Describe the large, potentially irregular trunk and crown without confusing dimensions, age and safety.", "rationale": "Unusual stem configurations and cavities require explicit measurement conventions and cautious interpretation.", "layers": [ { "id": "individual-boundary-and-size", "name": "Individual boundary and size", "description": "Define what is being measured and preserve a repeatable measurement route.", "findings": [ { "id": "stem-configuration", "name": "Stem configuration", "description": "Record apparent stems, connections and cavities before interpreting trunk dimensions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the record describe one apparent stem, connected stems or a cluster whose individual boundaries remain uncertain?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "stem-configuration-q01" }, { "text": "At what height and along what route were circumference, height and crown spread measured?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stem-configuration-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-through-time", "name": "Condition through time", "description": "Interpret crown and trunk observations against seasonal state and previous records.", "findings": [ { "id": "seasonality-damage-and-decline", "name": "Seasonality, damage and decline", "description": "Keep observed leaflessness, wounds, cavities and branch loss separate from diagnoses.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does current leaf and crown condition compare with this tree's previous observations at the same seasonal stage?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "seasonality-damage-and-decline-q01" }, { "text": "Which changes warrant specialist assessment before climbing, pruning or allowing activity beneath affected branches?", "kind": "action", "id": "seasonality-damage-and-decline-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "habitat-reproduction-and-recruitment", "name": "Habitat, reproduction and recruitment", "description": "Connect site conditions and seasonal reproduction to the establishment of new baobabs.", "rationale": "The presence of large adult trees does not by itself demonstrate continuing population replacement.", "layers": [ { "id": "site-and-seasonal-response", "name": "Site and seasonal response", "description": "Relate observed growth and phenology to local environmental conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "local-growing-context", "name": "Local growing context", "description": "Record drainage, rainfall timing, disturbance and planting context alongside tree responses.", "questions": [ { "text": "What drainage, flooding, rainfall and disturbance observations describe this tree's site?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "local-growing-context-q01" }, { "text": "When do leaf emergence, flowering and fruit maturation occur locally, 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"propagation-use-and-stewardship", "name": "Propagation, use and stewardship", "description": "Support evidence-based propagation and decisions about collecting material or intervening on trees.", "rationale": "Seed provenance, harvest intensity and local custodianship affect what actions are appropriate for a particular baobab.", "layers": [ { "id": "seed-and-establishment-management", "name": "Seed and establishment management", "description": "Track collection origin, seed treatment and establishment outcomes.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-propagation", "name": "Traceable propagation", "description": "Tie each propagation attempt to identified parent material and a documented treatment.", "questions": [ { "text": "From which identified trees and locations were seeds collected, and under whose permission?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-propagation-q01" }, { "text": "What seed treatment, sowing conditions and follow-up measurements support the chosen propagation 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"evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Adansonia digitata this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Botanical scientific name", "value_or_pattern": "Adansonia digitata L.", "note": "The author abbreviation L. attributes the name to Linnaeus; African baobab is a common name." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Adansonia digitata this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Fruit pulp is consumed directly and used in drinks and food 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"evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Adansonia digitata 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 Adansonia digitata 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 Adansonia digitata, 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 Adansonia digitata, 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 Adansonia digitata 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 Adansonia digitata from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Adansonia digitata, 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 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"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 Adansonia digitata, 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 Adansonia digitata, 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 Adansonia digitata 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 Adansonia digitata and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Adansonia digitata, 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 Adansonia digitata, 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 Adansonia digitata 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 Adansonia digitata is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Adansonia digitata, 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 Adansonia digitata, 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 Adansonia digitata 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 Adansonia digitata 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 Adansonia digitata is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Adansonia digitata, 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 Adansonia digitata, 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 Adansonia digitata 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 Adansonia digitata 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 Adansonia digitata, 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 Adansonia digitata, 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 Adansonia digitata 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 Adansonia digitata 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 Adansonia digitata between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Adansonia digitata, 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 Adansonia digitata, 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 Adansonia digitata 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 Adansonia digitata, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Adansonia digitata 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 Adansonia digitata, 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 Adansonia digitata, 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 Adansonia digitata 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 Adansonia digitata 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 Adansonia digitata, 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 Adansonia digitata 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 Adansonia digitata 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 Adansonia digitata 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 Adansonia digitata 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 Adansonia digitata 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 Adansonia digitata 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 Adansonia digitata, 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 Adansonia digitata 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 Adansonia digitata 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 Adansonia digitata and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Adansonia digitata, 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 Adansonia digitata, 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 Adansonia digitata 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 Adansonia digitata is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Adansonia digitata, 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 Adansonia digitata, 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 Adansonia digitata 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 } } } }