Basic specification
Biotic community |
One or more of the plant communities defined by Brown, Reichenbacher, and Franson which indicates the species' range of natural occurrence in the environment. |
Displayed in a short list with a special pop-up
window for showing the full list of possible communities. |
Climate view |
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Storage details
BioticCommunity |
A text value up to 50 characters in length. |
Internally the codes are stored rather than the
description of the item. Non-standard values are not supported. |
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Import / export notes
When importing and exporting the column name for this item is
BioticCommunity.
When importing with the Merge option, the existing semicolon-separated values of this item will be
merged with the values specified in the input file.
Delimited file |
A semicolon-separated list of Biotic community codes. |
XML file |
ditto |
Delimited file |
A semicolon-separated list of Biotic community
codes. |
XML file |
ditto |
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Publication templates
The replacement tag is <cb:BioticCommunity>.
The possible attributes for this tag are shown below.
Values marked with an asterisk are used by default.
on * |
Output the list of names using an HTML
<table></table> tag pair. Each
community is placed in a separate row within the table. |
off |
Output the list of communities separated by spaces. |
on * |
The color code is
shown. |
off |
The color code is not shown. |
on * |
Show the code with the color. |
off |
Do not show the code with the color. |
on * |
The text value is shown. Because the
biotic community database field stores codes, the text value is in
fact the same as the code. |
off |
No text is written. |
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For similar pages in the "Specifications" series see:
Alphabetical index to column specifications
For an index to other topics see
Specimen
Last reviewed March 25, 2004