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Lindl., commonly called loquat, is an evergreen fruit-tree species in the rose family Rosaceae, native to China and cultivated for its edible pome fruits.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the biological identity and species-specific assessment requirements of vr.tr.eriobotrya-japonica in PHY / PHY.LIV, linking individual trees, cultivars and populations without treating them as interchangeable.", "in_scope": [ "Taxonomic identity, authority, synonyms and external taxonomy mappings", "Identification from foliage, flowers and fruit, with evidence and uncertainty", "Life stages, flowering, pollination, fruit development and recruitment", "Native provenance, cultivation, naturalisation and population conservation", "Individual condition, site suitability and biological constraints on intervention" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Other Eriobotrya species and superficially similar plants", "Harvested loquat fruit as a food commodity or processed product", "Medicinal preparations, clinical efficacy and treatment decisions", "Orchard businesses, market pricing and agricultural supply chains", "Pathogens and pests as independently modelled organisms" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check the combined foliage characters: persistent, alternate, leathery leaves with coarse teeth, conspicuous veins and downy undersides; a common name alone is insufficient. [NC State botanical description](https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/eriobotrya-japonica/)", "Examine terminal, hairy flower panicles bearing small, fragrant, pale, five-petalled flowers; retain photographs of attachment and hairs. [NC State flower description](https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/eriobotrya-japonica/)", "Check mature fruit for yellow-to-orange pome form and large seeds; use fruit anatomy to investigate records labelled Japanese plum or confused with kumquat. [NC State fruit description](https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/eriobotrya-japonica/)", "Use locally observed autumn-to-winter flowering as supporting evidence, while allowing geographic variation and missing reproductive material. [NC State phenology](https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/eriobotrya-japonica/)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Taxonomic concept", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Registry identity linked to an authority-qualified species concept and dated checklist", "why_it_matters": "Preserves identity when taxonomic treatments use different generic placements." }, { "name": "Observation subject", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Species concept | population | individual tree | attached organ | voucher", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a tree's condition or an orchard's abundance from becoming a species-wide claim." }, { "name": "Identification support", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Provisional | supported by diagnostic material | expert-verified | conflicting", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether an agent can proceed or must obtain reproductive material or expert review." }, { "name": "Cultivar and propagation lineage", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named or unknown cultivar; seed parent, scion and rootstock links where documented", "why_it_matters": "Keeps cultivar performance and grafted components distinct from species expectations." }, { "name": "Life and reproductive stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Seed | seedling | juvenile | reproductive adult | senescent | dead; vegetative, flowering and fruit stages recorded separately", "why_it_matters": "Separates developmental immaturity from seasonal or stress-related absence of fruit." }, { "name": "Seasonal timing", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Local dates of bud development, flowering, fruit set and ripening; observation year and location", "why_it_matters": "Supports site-specific scheduling without imposing one calendar on all climates." }, { "name": "Reproductive performance", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Flowers and retained fruits per sampled panicle; fruit-set percentage with sampling interval", "why_it_matters": "Makes poor fruiting assessable rather than equating it with poor whole-tree health." }, { "name": "Cold exposure during reproduction", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Minimum temperature in degrees Celsius and exposure duration in hours, linked to organ stage", "why_it_matters": "Allows observed reproductive damage to be evaluated against actual weather." }, { "name": "Site water and light conditions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Soil moisture with method; waterlogging duration in hours; direct sunlight in hours per day", "why_it_matters": "Supports diagnosis and planting decisions using measured site conditions." }, { "name": "Occurrence origin", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Native wild | planted | escaped | naturalised | uncertain, with locality and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes cultivated presence from native distribution and autonomous recruitment." }, { "name": "Tree condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Symptoms by organ, onset date, affected crown percentage and diagnostic confidence", "why_it_matters": "Separates observations from unconfirmed causal diagnoses." }, { "name": "Conservation assessment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Assessment authority, category, year, geographic scope and assessed taxon; unverified until sourced", "why_it_matters": "Prevents horticultural abundance or missing assessment data from implying low extinction risk." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify a candidate loquat from documented organ characters and request missing diagnostic evidence.", "Reconcile scientific names and database records with the registered species concept.", "Track flowering and fruit retention against local weather and cultivar provenance.", "Assess a planting site and propose cultivation or propagation actions supported by local evidence.", "Document symptoms and route uncertain disease diagnoses for confirmation.", "Monitor wild or escaped populations and distinguish conservation needs from local spread management." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "loquat-identity", "name": "Loquat identity", "description": "Resolve the registered species across scientific names, common names and database treatments.", "rationale": "Generic reassignment and ambiguous horticultural names can otherwise create duplicate or misidentified records.", "layers": [ { "id": "scientific-name-and-concept", "name": "Scientific name and concept", "description": "Anchor the registry to a named, dated taxonomic treatment.", "findings": [ { "id": "accepted-name-and-synonyms", "name": "Accepted name and synonyms", "description": "Kew accepts Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl., published in 1821, in Rosaceae, and lists Rhaphiolepis bibas among its synonyms. Preserve treatment-specific names under the same registry identity when their concepts match. [Kew POWO](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:724793-1)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dated taxonomic authority defines the species concept used by this record?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "accepted-name-and-synonyms-q01" }, { "text": "Does a record named Rhaphiolepis bibas refer to the same circumscription or require reconciliation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "accepted-name-and-synonyms-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cross-database-recognition", "name": "Cross-database recognition", "description": "Match identifiers while retaining the evidence behind field identification.", "findings": [ { "id": "identifiers-and-vouchers", "name": "Identifiers and vouchers", "description": "NCBI records this species as taxonomy ID 32224; other mappings require independent verification. A database match does not establish a specimen's identity. [NCBI Taxonomy](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=32224)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which GBIF taxon key and backbone version correspond to this species concept?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identifiers-and-vouchers-q01" }, { "text": "Which voucher or diagnostic images distinguish the observed plant from other plants sold under similar common names?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "identifiers-and-vouchers-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tree-and-propagation-lineage", "name": "Tree and propagation lineage", "description": "Distinguish species membership, individual development and cultivated lineage.", "rationale": "A named cultivar, seedling and grafted tree support different expectations about identity and performance.", "layers": [ { "id": "individual-and-life-stage", "name": "Individual and life stage", "description": "Locate observations on a particular tree and distinguish age from reproductive activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "developmental-state", "name": "Developmental state", "description": "Record loquat life stage separately from current flowering or fruiting, with a stable individual identity across repeat observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this a seedling, juvenile or previously reproductive tree, and what supports that classification?", "kind": "definition", "id": "developmental-state-q01" }, { "text": "Does the record concern one tree, multiple stems of one tree or several independently established plants?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "developmental-state-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultivar-scion-and-rootstock", "name": "Cultivar, scion and rootstock", "description": "Track planting material without assigning unverified cultivar identity.", "findings": [ { "id": "propagation-provenance", "name": "Propagation provenance", "description": "Require documentary support for cultivar and propagation claims; identify which graft component produced the observed shoot or fruit.", "questions": [ { "text": "What nursery, accession or propagation record supports the cultivar and scion identity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "propagation-provenance-q01" }, { "text": "Is the sampled growth above or below a graft union, and is its taxonomic identity established?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "propagation-provenance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "flowering-and-fruit-set", "name": "Flowering and fruit set", "description": "Assess seasonal reproduction and distinguish its limitations from whole-tree survival.", "rationale": "Successful growth does not establish that a site or cultivar will produce fruit.", "layers": [ { "id": "reproductive-calendar-and-weather", "name": "Reproductive calendar and weather", "description": "Link organ stages to the weather they actually experienced.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-specific-cold-response", "name": "Stage-specific cold response", "description": "Flower and fruit cold sensitivity differs from tree survival; assess damaged organs separately. [NC State cultivation notes](https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/eriobotrya-japonica/)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which flowering or fruit stage coincided with the measured cold event?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stage-specific-cold-response-q01" }, { "text": "What locally validated evidence supports protection or a change of planting site?", "kind": "action", "id": "stage-specific-cold-response-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "pollination-and-retention", "name": "Pollination and retention", "description": "Investigate reproductive function before attributing absent fruit to a single cause.", "findings": [ { "id": "flower-function-and-fruit-retention", "name": "Flower function and fruit retention", "description": "Record flower sexual function, cultivar compatibility evidence, pollinator observations and successive fruit counts; do not infer separate male and female trees from fruiting differences.", "questions": [ { "text": "What botanical evidence establishes flower sexual function and whether sexual dimorphism is applicable?", "kind": "definition", "id": "flower-function-and-fruit-retention-q01" }, { "text": "What cultivar-specific evidence establishes self-compatibility or benefit from a compatible pollen source?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "flower-function-and-fruit-retention-q02" }, { "text": "At which stage did flowers or developing fruits fail, and what proportion was lost?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "flower-function-and-fruit-retention-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-and-population-fate", "name": "Range and population fate", "description": "Separate native provenance, cultivated occurrence and self-sustaining populations.", "rationale": "Long cultivation history makes occurrence records insufficient evidence of native range or conservation security.", "layers": [ { "id": "native-and-introduced-provenance", "name": "Native and introduced provenance", "description": "Attach origin claims to an explicit geographic treatment.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-evidence", "name": "Range evidence", "description": "Kew places the native range in Chongqing and Hubei, China, and lists Japan as introduced; retain the authority because origin descriptions differ between references. [Kew distribution](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:724793-1)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which flora or specimen history supports native, planted or introduced status at this locality?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "range-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does the location describe a wild habitat, an orchard, an ornamental planting or an escape site?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "range-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "recruitment-and-conservation", "name": "Recruitment and conservation", "description": "Assess population persistence and conservation claims at their proper scale.", "findings": [ { "id": "wild-population-evidence", "name": "Wild population evidence", "description": "Track recruitment and mortality independently of planting, and attach conservation categories only to verified assessments.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do repeated surveys show unassisted seedling recruitment and survival beyond planted parent trees?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "wild-population-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What verified IUCN category and assessment year apply, and what geographic or taxonomic limits accompany them?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "wild-population-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "Does local evidence support conserving this population, monitoring spread or requesting a regional ecological assessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "wild-population-evidence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-intervention", "name": "Condition and intervention", "description": "Connect tree symptoms, site observations and intended uses to justified actions.", "rationale": "Loquat care requires distinguishing reproductive failure, disease, environmental stress and the particular organ being used.", "layers": [ { "id": "symptoms-and-site-fit", "name": "Symptoms and site fit", "description": "Use organ-level evidence to investigate decline.", "findings": [ { "id": "differential-condition-assessment", "name": "Differential condition assessment", "description": "Fire blight is a documented loquat problem, but a symptom record alone does not confirm it. [NC State plant problems](https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/eriobotrya-japonica/)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which shoots, leaves, flowers or fruits are affected, and how has damage progressed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "differential-condition-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes suspected infection from cold injury or unsuitable root-zone conditions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "differential-condition-assessment-q02" }, { "text": "Which observations or diagnostic results are needed before selecting pruning, irrigation changes or specialist treatment?", "kind": "action", "id": "differential-condition-assessment-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "organ-specific-use", "name": "Organ-specific use", "description": "Keep biological observations distinct from harvested products and use claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "harvest-and-material-boundary", "name": "Harvest and material boundary", "description": "Distinguish fruit flesh from seeds when linking use evidence; edible flesh does not establish seed suitability. 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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 Eriobotrya japonica, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise Eriobotrya japonica, distinguish species knowledge from observations of particular loquat trees and populations, and judge appropriate monitoring, cultivation and conservation actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Nespola di Trabia.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 86 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 Eriobotrya japonica, 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": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "Nespola di Trabia" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 86 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Eriobotrya japonica from another, and a Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 Eriobotrya japonica is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica, 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 Eriobotrya japonica 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 } } } }