Quote[/b] ]I wrote:
>There was a discussion in the PFT Forum about some info in the Database.
>>
>> As an example, under spatulata there is
>> LFR:
>> 18: Japan-Korea
>> 21: Taiwan
>> 24: Southeastern China
>> 97: South China
>> etc.
>>
>> The Database Entry Format
>>
http://www.omnisterra.com/botany/cp/html/db_formt.htm
>> does not explain LFR or what the numbers (18, 21, ...) mean.
>> Can you illuminate?
Rick replied:
These are "Location Floristic Regions".
# General outline following A. Takhtajan (1986)
# Floristic Regions of the World, University of California Press, Berkeley.
#
# TDWG region (political unit) codes according to:
#
http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/TDWG/geo/geotdwg1.dtx
Essentially a set of bio-regions delineated and predefined so that any
region can be specified with a small (<153) integer. Much better than
political regions for talking about plant locations.
This is documented in the raw db itself, which is always accessible from
the (non published) URL:
]http://www.omnisterra.com/botany/cp/data/jans.db