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[E-Flora BC: V. myrtillus](https://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Vaccinium+myrtillus), [E-Flora BC: V. uliginosum](https://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Vaccinium+uliginosum).", "Where V. scoparium is a candidate, compare branch thickness and density, leaf and flower size, and mature berry colour: the regional flora describes V. myrtillus as more openly branched, with larger leaves and flowers and darker fruit. Treat this as a combined regional test. [E-Flora BC](https://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Vaccinium+myrtillus).", "Inspect flower attachment and calyx form: V. myrtillus has solitary axillary flowers and very shallow calyx lobes; V. uliginosum can have one to four flowers together and deeply lobed calyces. A solitary flower alone does not resolve the identification. [E-Flora BC: V. myrtillus](https://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Vaccinium+myrtillus), [E-Flora BC: V. uliginosum](https://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Vaccinium+uliginosum)." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification determination", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | provisional | supported | disputed; with identifier, evidence and taxonomic reference", "why_it_matters": "A common name or berry photograph alone should not authorize species-dependent actions." }, { "name": "Observed biological unit", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "shoot | rooted shoot | apparent clump | mapped patch | demonstrated genet | specimen", "why_it_matters": "Shoot counts and patch extent do not establish the number of genetically distinct plants." }, { "name": "Young-twig and leaf characters", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "twig angularity and colour; leaf margin, arrangement and persistence; observed | absent | unavailable", "why_it_matters": "Vegetative evidence supports identification when flowers and berries are unavailable." }, { "name": "Leaf and reproductive-organ dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm; organ, maturity, sample count and observed range", "why_it_matters": "Measured comparisons are more useful than unqualified descriptions such as small." }, { "name": "Patch extent and cover", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "m² of mapped extent; percentage cover within a stated sampling area", "why_it_matters": "Repeated measurements reveal expansion or loss without treating a patch as one individual." }, { "name": "Seasonal development", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "dormant | bud development | leaf expansion | flowering | unripe fruit | ripe fruit | senescence; stages may coexist", "why_it_matters": "Interpretation and intervention timing depend on observed development at the locality." }, { "name": "Flower-to-fruit outcome", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "flowers and retained fruits per tagged shoot; fruit-set percentage with observation dates", "why_it_matters": "Separates abundant foliage from successful reproduction and documents losses between stages." }, { "name": "Root-zone conditions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "soil pH with extraction method; moisture with method and depth; organic-horizon thickness in cm", "why_it_matters": "Provides site evidence for interpreting performance and evaluating establishment actions." }, { "name": "Shoot injury and dieback", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "percentage of assessed shoots affected, symptom category and sampling denominator", "why_it_matters": "Tracks damage while keeping symptoms separate from unconfirmed causes." }, { "name": "Associated organism evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "plant or patch linked to observed visitor, browser, fungus or suspected damaging organism; evidence and date", "why_it_matters": "Supports ecological interpretation without equating presence with pollination, symbiosis or causation." }, { "name": "Intervention readiness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "supported | conditional | deferred; named action, evidence and outstanding constraints", "why_it_matters": "A decision to monitor does not imply permission or suitability to harvest, excavate or transplant." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify provisionally or seek botanical review using linked twig, leaf, flower and fruit observations.", "Map and revisit a patch to track cover, shoot injury and seasonal development.", "Measure flowering and fruit retention on tagged shoots to investigate reproductive performance.", "Evaluate site care or restoration options against measured root-zone conditions and disturbance history.", "Assess a proposed fruit collection against identification, ripeness, patch condition and applicable external constraints.", "Plan evidence-supported propagation or transplant trials with donor provenance and follow-up monitoring." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "powo", "title": "Vaccinium myrtillus L.", "url": "https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:262371-2", "what_it_supports": "Accepted species name, family Ericaceae, nomenclatural authority Linnaeus, and native distribution in temperate Eurasia and western North America.", "url_status": "blocked" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "bilberry-recognition", "name": "Bilberry recognition", "description": "Evidence connecting an observed plant to Vaccinium myrtillus while retaining plausible alternatives.", "rationale": "Blue berries and common names are insufficient to establish the registered species.", "layers": [ { "id": "vegetative-identification", "name": "Vegetative identification", "description": "Recognition from young twigs and leaves, with seasonal limits made explicit.", "findings": [ { "id": "twig-leaf-character-combination", "name": "Twig and leaf character combination", "description": "Record the combination of twig angularity, leaf margin, arrangement and persistence rather than accepting one diagnostic-looking trait.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which twig and leaf characters were directly observed, and which could not be assessed because of season or specimen condition?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "twig-leaf-character-combination-q01" }, { "text": "Which locally plausible Vaccinium alternatives remain compatible with those observations?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "twig-leaf-character-combination-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproductive-confirmation", "name": "Reproductive confirmation", "description": "Flower and fruit evidence linked to the same observed plant.", "findings": [ { "id": "flower-fruit-determination", "name": "Flower and fruit determination", "description": "Record flower placement, calyx form and mature-fruit characters together with the reference supporting the determination.", "questions": [ { "text": "What flower arrangement, calyx structure and fruit characters are documented on this plant?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "flower-fruit-determination-q01" }, { "text": "Which regional key, voucher comparison or expert determination supports the identification, and were all images taken from the same plant?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "flower-fruit-determination-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "shoots-rhizomes-and-patches", "name": "Shoots, rhizomes and patches", "description": "The biological and spatial unit to which observations and actions apply.", "rationale": "Bilberry is described as rhizomatous and colony-forming, so visible stems cannot automatically be counted as separate individuals. [Burke Herbarium](https://burkeherbarium.org/imagecollection/taxon.php?Taxon=Vaccinium+myrtillus).", "layers": [ { "id": "clonal-boundaries", "name": "Clonal boundaries", "description": "Separate visible aggregation from demonstrated physical or genetic connection.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-unit-and-connectivity", "name": "Observed unit and connectivity", "description": "Declare whether the record concerns a shoot, clump, patch or demonstrated genet and qualify any inferred connection.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observable boundary defines this record, and how are its shoots or patch limits relocated?", "kind": "definition", "id": "observed-unit-and-connectivity-q01" }, { "text": "Is shared identity supported by traced rhizomes or genetic evidence, or inferred only from proximity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "observed-unit-and-connectivity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "patch-renewal", "name": "Patch renewal", "description": "Changes in extent and emergence of shoots or seedlings.", "findings": [ { "id": "recruitment-and-cover-change", "name": "Recruitment and cover change", "description": "Track bilberry cover and new growth without assuming that each new shoot represents seedling recruitment.", "questions": [ { "text": "How have mapped extent, percentage cover and live-shoot density changed under the same sampling method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "recruitment-and-cover-change-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes seedlings from vegetative shoots, and which recruits remain unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "recruitment-and-cover-change-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "seasonal-growth-and-fruiting", "name": "Seasonal growth and fruiting", "description": "Local progression from buds and leaves through flowers, berries and dormancy.", "rationale": "Bilberry is deciduous, and its flowers and fruit appear seasonally; locality-specific observations are needed instead of a universal calendar. [Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh](https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and-conservation/library-and-archives/ladies-botany-women-illustrators-of-scottish-native-species/blaeberry/).", "layers": [ { "id": "phenological-position", "name": "Phenological position", "description": "Date-specific developmental stages and their variation within the patch.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-and-observation-window", "name": "Stage and observation window", "description": "Record concurrent stages and observation coverage so absent fruit or leaves are interpreted in context.", "questions": [ { "text": "What proportions of sampled shoots are leafing, flowering, fruiting, senescent or dormant on the observation date?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stage-and-observation-window-q01" }, { "text": "When should this locality be revisited to observe the missing identification or reproductive stage?", "kind": "action", "id": "stage-and-observation-window-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproductive-performance", "name": "Reproductive performance", "description": "Flower production, fruit retention and evidence concerning reproductive losses.", "findings": [ { "id": "flower-to-ripe-berry-transition", "name": "Flower-to-ripe-berry transition", "description": "Follow tagged shoots from flowers to retained ripe berries while keeping possible loss mechanisms separate.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many flowers, developing fruits and ripe berries occur on the same tagged shoots across visits?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "flower-to-ripe-berry-transition-q01" }, { "text": "What observations support explanations involving flower damage, pollination limitation, fruit abortion or fruit removal?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "flower-to-ripe-berry-transition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "habitat-fit-and-plant-condition", "name": "Habitat fit and plant condition", "description": "Root-zone conditions, exposure and damage relevant to the recorded bilberry.", "rationale": "Bilberry occurs in acidic heath and woodland settings, but the model must measure local conditions rather than derive plant health from a habitat label. [Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh](https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and-conservation/library-and-archives/ladies-botany-women-illustrators-of-scottish-native-species/blaeberry/).", "layers": [ { "id": "root-zone-and-exposure", "name": "Root zone and exposure", "description": "Measured substrate and microclimate associated with growth or decline.", "findings": [ { "id": "site-condition-evidence", "name": "Site condition evidence", "description": "Associate soil acidity, moisture, organic horizon and canopy exposure with observations of this patch.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the measured soil pH, root-zone moisture and canopy openness, with methods, depths and dates?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "site-condition-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Do healthier and declining parts of the patch differ consistently in these conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "site-condition-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "injury-and-recovery", "name": "Injury and recovery", "description": "Symptoms, disturbance evidence and subsequent regrowth.", "findings": [ { "id": "damage-cause-and-response", "name": "Damage, cause and response", "description": "Distinguish seasonal colour change from injury and preserve uncertainty about browsing, weather, disease or mechanical damage.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which leaves, buds, stems or rhizomes show injury, and what proportion of the sampled unit is affected?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "damage-cause-and-response-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports the suspected cause, and what follow-up would test recovery before an intervention is chosen?", "kind": "action", "id": "damage-cause-and-response-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "collection-and-establishment-decisions", "name": "Collection and establishment decisions", "description": "Species-specific readiness for taking fruit or plant material and establishing bilberry elsewhere.", "rationale": "Fruit removal and disturbance of living shoots or rhizomes affect different parts of the plant and require separate decisions.", "layers": [ { "id": "fruit-collection-readiness", "name": "Fruit collection readiness", "description": "The plant-side evidence and external constraints for a proposed collection.", "findings": [ { "id": "collection-extent-and-handoff", "name": "Collection extent and handoff", "description": "Record the proposed amount and method, remaining fruit and plant damage risk; preserve origin when detached fruit becomes a separate lot.", "questions": [ { "text": "What identification, ripeness, fruit-abundance and patch-condition evidence supports or defers the proposed collection?", "kind": "action", "id": "collection-extent-and-handoff-q01" }, { "text": "Which current access or conservation constraints apply, and how will collected fruit retain its patch and collection-date provenance?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "collection-extent-and-handoff-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "propagation-and-restoration", "name": "Propagation and restoration", "description": "Donor selection, establishment method and monitored outcomes.", "findings": [ { "id": "donor-to-recipient-establishment", "name": "Donor-to-recipient establishment", "description": "Connect any proposed seed, cutting or division method to evidence, donor impacts, recipient conditions and observable success criteria.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which propagation method has supporting evidence for the material and locality, and what donor disturbance would it require?", "kind": "action", "id": "donor-to-recipient-establishment-q01" }, { "text": "What provenance, recipient-site measurements and follow-up criteria will distinguish initial survival from sustained establishment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "donor-to-recipient-establishment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; 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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. 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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 Vaccinium myrtillus, 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 Vaccinium myrtillus, 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 Vaccinium myrtillus 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 Vaccinium myrtillus, 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 Vaccinium myrtillus, 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 Vaccinium myrtillus 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 Vaccinium myrtillus 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 Vaccinium myrtillus, 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 Vaccinium myrtillus, 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 Vaccinium myrtillus 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 Vaccinium myrtillus from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Vaccinium myrtillus, 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 Vaccinium myrtillus, 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 Vaccinium myrtillus 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 Vaccinium myrtillus 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 Vaccinium myrtillus, 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 Vaccinium myrtillus, 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 Vaccinium myrtillus 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 Vaccinium myrtillus and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Vaccinium myrtillus, 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 Vaccinium myrtillus, 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 Vaccinium myrtillus 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 Vaccinium myrtillus is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Vaccinium myrtillus, 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 Vaccinium myrtillus, 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 Vaccinium myrtillus 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 Vaccinium myrtillus 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 Vaccinium myrtillus is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Vaccinium myrtillus, 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 Vaccinium myrtillus, 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 Vaccinium myrtillus 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 Vaccinium myrtillus moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what 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time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Vaccinium myrtillus 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 Vaccinium myrtillus, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Vaccinium myrtillus 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 Vaccinium myrtillus, 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 Vaccinium myrtillus, 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 Vaccinium myrtillus 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 Vaccinium myrtillus 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 Vaccinium myrtillus, 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 Vaccinium myrtillus 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 Vaccinium myrtillus 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 Vaccinium myrtillus 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 Vaccinium myrtillus 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 Vaccinium myrtillus 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 Vaccinium myrtillus 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 Vaccinium myrtillus, 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 Vaccinium myrtillus 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 Vaccinium myrtillus 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 Vaccinium myrtillus and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Vaccinium myrtillus, 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 Vaccinium myrtillus, 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 Vaccinium myrtillus 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 Vaccinium myrtillus is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Vaccinium myrtillus, 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 Vaccinium myrtillus, 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 Vaccinium myrtillus 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 } } } }