e-mail conv between Jim Matthews at Habitat Assessment <jim@habitatassessment.com> and Bob Peet on 2010-12-2~3:

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Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 17:08:08 -0500 (EST)

From: jim@habitatassessment.com

To: Robert K. Peet <uniola@email.unc.edu>

Subject: Re: herbarium phenology codes (fwd)

Bob

Most are typos

A = absent

I = immature

M = mature

Sorry for the confusion.   Having undergraduates enter data can lead to problems, both of interpretation

and typing.

Jim

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From: "Robert K. Peet" <uniola@email.unc.edu>

Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2010 4:28pm

To: jim@habitatassessment.com

Cc: "Brad Boyle" <bboyle@email.arizona.edu>

Subject: Re: herbarium phenology codes (fwd)

Hi Jim,

I have a colleague at the University of Arizona (Brad Boyle) who has been

looking at the database from the UNCC herbarium. There are codes given

for Leaf, Flower, Fruit, and Root

'leaves': A,F,L,I,M,N,U,V,W,Y

'flower': A, F, I, J, M, N

'fruit': A, H, I, M, O, Q, S

'root': A,B,C,E,F,I,M,N,P,Q,R,S,Y

Do you know where we can find the definitions? Doubtless a few are typos,

but we really do not know where to start. If it would help, I could give

you a count for each. For example, for leaves M is the most common with

39535 records.

Thanks,

Bob

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