Biodiversity Insight

Owned by Lite Farm
Last updated: Mar 15, 2023
2 min read

WORK IN PROGRESS

Why is biodiversity an important insight?

Biodiversity is great for people and the planet. 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.

Why is biodiversity important? | Royal Society

 

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.

 

 

Suggested improvements

 

List of categories and subcategories:

  • Animals

    • Birds

    • Arachnids

    • Amphibians

    • Insects

    • Mammals

    • Reptiles

  • Plants

    • Cultivated

    • Non-cultivated

  • Fungus

 

For animals, plants, and fungi, we’ll need a way to represent cultivated and non-cultivated biodiversity. With regard to plants, this is relevant now. Additionally, by the end of the year we’ll have the ability to document livestock on your farm. That would fall under mammals but there should be a visual way to distinguish between livestock you’re raising and those you’ve observed.

 

Screens:

  • Trends for all categories

  • Searchable observation catalogue

    • Search bar

    • Filters:

      • Date range

      • Source: {“GBIF”, “Observation”}

  • Category tile view

  • Individual species hybrid page

    • Detail page

      • Name

      • Picture

      • Source

      • Description?

      • Observations on the farm (pins on farm map preview)

      • Observed on* (could be date or date ranges)

      • Observed by* (could be 1 person, many, or GBIF)

    • Observations page:

      • Each observation as a card?

 

 

 

Other suggestions:

  • Comparison of users farm against the average for “similar” farms elsewhere

  • Integrate with eBird

  • Landscape diversity (numbers of habitat types, proportions of each habitat type)

  • Presence of natural areas, hedgerows, riparian buffers, etc.

 

 

 

Background reading

  • Current implementation: Insights Detail

  • Observations could be a feed into on-farm biodiversity

  • Background on GBIF API: https://lite-farm.atlassian.net/browse/LF-2014