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Speciesin is a term used in biodiversity informatics to describe the set of species observed, expected, or recorded within a defined spatial or temporal unit. The term is not widely standardized and may appear as 'species in' lists, field inventory tags, or data field labels in various projects.

In ecology, 'speciesin' commonly refers to the roster of species detected or predicted for a site, produced

In data systems, speciesin can be implemented as a data structure or object that stores taxonomic information,

Challenges for the speciesin concept include taxonomic updates, synonymy, sampling bias, and incomplete detection. The quality

See also biodiversity informatics, species richness, occupancy modeling.

from
field
surveys,
environmental
DNA
samples,
or
species
distribution
models.
It
serves
as
a
basis
for
calculating
species
richness,
turnover,
and
occupancy
estimates,
and
is
often
compared
with
a
'speciesout'
list
to
identify
absences.
conservation
status,
occurrence
records,
and
metadata
such
as
date
and
method
of
detection.
It
may
be
used
in
dashboards,
reproducible
analysis
pipelines,
and
conservation
prioritization
workflows.
of
a
speciesin
depends
on
sampling
effort,
methods,
and
data
quality,
and
users
should
document
criteria
for
inclusion.