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# `flora`: Observations of flora species and seasonal development

**Licenses:**

- [CCO 1.0 UNIVERSAL](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- [Academic Free License 3.0](https://opensource.org/licenses/AFL-3.0)

**Version:** 1.2.3

A dataset containing flora species records and their observed growth stages across different environments.

## Contributors

- Jane Dölitz (<jane-doelitz@example.com>): creator
- John Smith (<john-smith@example.com>): author, data collector

## Resources

### `species_catalog`: Flora Species

This resource contains a catalog of flora species.

- Path: `resources/species_catalog/data.parquet`
- Primary key: (`species_id`)
- Foreign keys:
  - From fields (`parent_species_id`) to fields (`species_id`) in resource `species_catalog`

| Title           | Name                | Type    | Description                                    |
|-----------------|---------------------|---------|------------------------------------------------|
| Species ID      | `species_id`        | integer | The unique identifier for each species.        |
| Scientific name | `scientific_name`   | string  | The Latin name of the species.                 |
| Common name     | `common_name`       | string  | The common name of the species.                |
| Family          | `family`            | string  | The Latin family to which the species belongs. |
| Parent Species  | `parent_species_id` | integer | The parent species of this species.            |

: Fields in the `species_catalog` resource.

### `location_catalog`: Flora Species Locations

This resource contains a catalog of flora species locations.

- Path: `resources/location_catalog/data.parquet`
- Primary key: (`region`, `country`)

| Title      | Name         | Type   | Description                                     |
|------------|--------------|--------|-------------------------------------------------|
| Region     | `region`     | string | The region the location is in.                  |
| Country    | `country`    | string | The country the location is in.                 |
| Local Name | `local_name` | string | The name of the location in the local language. |

: Fields in the `location_catalog` resource.

### `growth_records`: Growth Stage Records

This resource contains records of observed growth stages for various flora species.

- Path: `resources/growth_records/data.parquet`
- Primary key: (`record_id`)
- Foreign keys:
  - From fields (`species_id`) to fields (`species_id`) in resource `species_catalog`
  - From fields (`location_region`, `location_country`) to fields (`region`, `country`) in resource `location_catalog`

| Title            | Name               | Type    | Description                                   |
|------------------|--------------------|---------|-----------------------------------------------|
| Record ID        | `record_id`        | integer | The unique identifier for each growth record. |
| Species          | `species_id`       | integer | The species the observation was made for.     |
| Observation date | `observation_date` | date    | The date when the observation was made.       |
| Growth Stage     | `growth_stage`     | string  | The observed growth stage of the species.     |
| Location Region  | `location_region`  | string  | The region of the location.                   |
| Location Country | `location_country` | string  | The country of the location.                  |

: Fields in the `growth_records` resource.
