I thought that I would also mention that in addition to The Plants List, the eBird project also uses on overlapping concepts in its bird list (it does have concepts for common hybrids)<div><br></div><div>What is clear to me is that you cannot create graphs like these if every observation can have X number of species (especially those that overlapping ) without any indication which is is the most appropriate one.</div>
<div><br></div><div>eBird Occurrence Maps Northern Cardinal</div><div><a href="http://ebird.org/content/ebird/about/occurrence-maps/northern-cardinal">http://ebird.org/content/ebird/about/occurrence-maps/northern-cardinal</a><br clear="all">
<br></div><div>NCBI is also similar.</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps a member of the consensus committee can comment?</div><div><br>-- Pete<br>







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