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Why is biodiversity an important insight?
Biodiversity is great for people and the planet. We count species richness from all known records of biodiversity within your farm boundary(ies). You can increase the crop biodiversity on your farm by planting new varieties. You can increase the non-crop biodiversity count on your farm Biodiversity is essential for the processes that support all life on Earth, including humans. Without a wide range of animals, plants and microorganisms, we cannot have the healthy ecosystems that we rely on to provide us with the air we breathe and the food we eat. And people also value nature of itself.
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/biodiversity/why-is-biodiversity-important/
Current implementation (Mar 10)
The crop varieties comes from the number of active crop plans (details here: Insights Detail). YouThe non-crop biodiversity comes from GBIF and can be increased by recording sightings on https://inaturalist.org/app
Current implementation (Mar 10)
Based on .
Suggested improvements
Hi Kevin,
Hannah asked me to share with you some ideas for the biodiversity insights page in Litefarm. Here are a few:
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baseline information on the number of species makes sense but I would probably add fungi/mushroom, spider, and reptile categories
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total numbers are good, but it might also be nice to see how many have been recorded in the last year or two relative to longer time spans
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if a farm was tracking this data over multiple years you could provide a simple line graph of the number of species in different groups to see if this is changing (which could be due both to sampling effort and actual changes in species diversity)
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Low hanging fruit:
Add more categories:
fungi
spiders
reptiles
mammals
Further subdivide plants into:
lichens
mosses
Need to see changes over time, perhaps with a slider or line graph (# of species in each category at a certain date)
Being able to drill down into each category to see specific observations of species, including pictures (this is already passed from GBIF). This would help producers actually learn to identify biodiversity on their farm for species groups they might not be familiar with.
Other suggestions:
Comparison of users farm against the average for “similar” farms elsewhere
Integrate with eBird
landscape Landscape diversity (numbers of habitat types, proportions of each habitat type, presence of )
Presence of natural areas, hedgerows, etc.) could be something to add if that type of data is already in LiteFarm. Could also show how this is changing through time if that data is inputted each year
Other than that, I don’t think it needs to get much more complicated than this right now. At some point it would also be great to get some input from actual producers around what type of biodiversity information would be most useful to them.
Any questions, let me know!
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riparian buffers, etc.
Background reading
Current implementation: Insights Detail
Observations could be a feed into on-farm biodiversity
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