set_individual_traits#

Note

Individual trait data is not required by the ALA, but it is nice to have.

One of the functions you can use to check your data is set_individual_traits(). This function aims to check if you have the following:

individualID: An identifier for an individual or named group of individual organisms represented in the Occurrence. Meant to accommodate resampling of the same individual or group for monitoring purposes. May be a global unique identifier or an identifier specific to a data set.
lifeStage: The age class or life stage of an organism at the time of occurrence.
sex: The sex of the biological individual.
vitality: An indication of whether an organism was alive or dead at the time of collection or observation.
reproductiveCondition: The reproductive condition of the biological individual.

specifying individual organism information#

If you are looking at individual organisms, recording additional trait information is possible in the Darwin Core standard. An example is below:

>>> import pandas as pd
>>> occ = pd.DataFrame({'scientificName': ['Eolophus roseicapilla','Eolophus roseicapilla']})
>>> my_dwca = my_dwca.dwca(occurrences=occ)
>>> my_dwca.set_individual_traits(dataframe=occ,individualID=['123456','123457'],
...                               lifeStage='adult',sex=['male','female'],
...                               vitality='alive',reproductiveCondition='not reproductive')
>>> my_dwca.occurrences.head()

          scientificName individualID lifeStage     sex vitality reproductiveCondition
0  Eolophus roseicapilla       123456     adult    male    alive      not reproductive
1  Eolophus roseicapilla       123457     adult  female    alive      not reproductive

Other functions#

To learn more about how to use other functions, go to

Optional functions:

Creating Unique IDs:

Creating Unique IDs for your Occurrences

Passing Dataset:

Passing Dataset