4 Lookups

4.1 Lookup essentials

Lookups ease data entry and help to keep the data consistent. They are imported from CSV text files that can be edited and exchanged between devices. Three lookups are used by the app: cover scales, cover codes and species lists.

4.2 Importing, editing and exporting lookups

4.3 Cover scales

4.4 Cover codes

4.5 Species lists

4.5.1 Checklists

Species checklists are available for many parts of the world. An increasing selection of checklists that have already been transformed in the appropriate format will be available in this checklist repository.

If you need to build a new checklist create a CSV text file with nine columns delimited by ";". Here is an example for the first four lines of a valid CSV input file including one line with column names (lines may be wrapped):

SPECIES_NR;NAME;GENUS;SPECIES;AUTHOR;SYNONYM;VALID_NR;VALID_NAME;SECUNDUM
1;Abies alba;Abies;alba;Mill.;FALSE;1;Abies alba;BfN (Wisskirchen u. Haeupler 1998)
2;Abutilon theophrasti;Abutilon;theophrasti;Medik.;FALSE;2;Abutilon theophrasti;BfN (Wisskirchen u. Haeupler 1998)
6;Acer campestre;Acer;campestre;L.;FALSE;6;Acer campestre;BfN (Wisskirchen u. Haeupler 1998)

The specification of the columns is as follows:

SPECIES_NR	Unique number of the taxon
NAME	Full name of the taxon including author citation (see the fields GENUS, SPECIES and AUTHOR for details).
GENUS	Latin name of the genus like *Cocos* in Cocos nucifera
SPECIES	The rest of the name except for the author citation. This field usually takes the latin specific epithet like *nucifera* in Cocos nucifera but it may also contain intraspecific epithets and connecting terms denoting the rank like subsp. mexicana in Fagus grandifolia subsp. mexicana. Also, terms indicating the width of species concepts like "s.str." or "s.l." and other abbreviations like "agg." go here.
AUTHOR	Authors of the name concerned like L. in Cocos nucifera L..
SYNONYM	Takes the value TRUE if the taxon is not a valid one but a synonym, otherwise FALSE.
VALID_NUMBER	The number of the respective valid species (corresponding to SPECIES_NR).
VALID_NAME	The name of the respective valid species (corresponding to NAME).
SECUNDUM	Reference to the flora used or to a voucher specimen. This reference specifies the taxonomic concept ("taxon view").