Table 6.

Structure of the taxonomic_updates table, of all taxonomic changes implemented in the construction of AusTraits. Changes are determined by comparing against the APC (Australian Plant Census) and APNI (Australian Plant Name Index).

key	value
dataset_id	Primary identifier for each study contributed into AusTraits; most often these are scientific papers, books, or online resources. By default should be name of first author and year of publication, e.g. ‘Falster_2005’.
original_name	Name given to taxon in the original data supplied by the authors
cleaned_name	Name of the taxon after implementing any changes encoded for this taxon in the metadata file for the correpsonding ‘dataset_id’.
taxonIDClean	Where it could be identified, the ‘taxonID’ of the ‘cleaned_name’ for this taxon in the APC.
taxonomicStatusClean	Taxonomic status of the taxon identified by ‘taxonIDClean’ in the APC.
alternativeTaxonomicStatusClean	The status of alternative records with the name ‘cleaned_name’ in the APC.
acceptedNameUsageID	ID of the accepted name for taxon in the APC or APNI.
taxon_name	Currently accepted name of taxon in the APC or in the APNI .