README.md

Species validation tool

This tool can be used to validate a list containing trees' or plants' scientific names. Please see the manual (Manual_Species_Validation_Tool_date.PDF) for more information how set up and use the tool.

The input data as CSV format file should contain columns with the following names (headers): code, scientific_name
(Note: 'code' is optional)

The data imported to the Species Validation tool are subject to a series of processing and checks. The various databases are used to validate the inputted species names, and these are accessed either Online and Offline, as follows:

1) LCVP - Leipzig Catalogue of Vascular Plants [offline] (see the Manual how download the database)

2) Tropicos - Missouri Botanical Garden [online]

3) Kew - Plants of the World Online [online]

4) NCBI - National Center for Biotechnology Information, db="taxonomy" [online]

5) WFO - World Flora Online [offline] (see the Manual how download the database)

6) GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility [online]

7) GBIF - IUCN Red List status search [online], (no results for all species!)

8) GTS - Global Tree Search [offline]. (Used to check name occurrences in this DB, not actually to validate names)

Validation Results

The result table shows the information about the species. This table contains several fields, as "code" (input),"scientific_name" (input),"Authors","Status","Accepted_Taxon", "iucnRL_scientific_name","iucnRL_Accepted_Taxon","iucnRL_Alternative","family"...... etc.

Statistic Table