I am slowly putting together a very basic identification key of plant damages, to determine first if the source of the damage is living or not, and then what did it: bacteria, fungi, insects, mite, small/medium/large mammals... I was quite surprise at the first place to not find such material already produce.
I hope this material to be used by parataxonomists in Central Africa. It should therefore be accessible and well-illustrated. It also do not need to go too much into details: for example, to conclude the key at 'Insect' is fine, we do not need to know which Order of Insects did it.
I have seen quite some apps and other websites for cultivated plants, but none are quite as simple and general as what I am looking for. Maybe I was simply looking at the wrong places.
Any suggestion is welcome. Thanks.
There are many species specific manuals and Compendia, such as APS Press:
https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/series/compendia
Online: https://www.apsnet.org/apsstore/pages/oncompendia.aspx
Some tools:
CABI identification keys https://www.cabi.org/cpc/identification-keys/
Regards
This is a very interesting exercise and one I anticipate may be in progress through an organisation such as FAO. It is part of what I hope to see, within my lifetime, i.e. an app to separate likely 'damage' from nutrient deficiency/toxicity symptoms.
Good day. Yes, similar identification key (for insects) have been published in Russian (for Eurasia, images are sparse). I can forward the electronic version.
Hi hi, Try forestry papers and sites. During my forestry studies, we needed to identify a wide range of pest on European trees and bushes from the general patterns, colours and even chewing damage on leaves and shoots. If documentation is needed from West Africa, feel free to drop me a line. Cheers, Safi
Hi. Its not easy to find one reference which has consolidated this information; but the information is available from different sources. A one stop guide for such information would be very useful to parataxonomists as you say.
I have books.
True they are in Russian
Regards, Pushkin Sergey Viktorovich
There are many species specific manuals and Compendia, such as APS Press:
https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/series/compendia
Online: https://www.apsnet.org/apsstore/pages/oncompendia.aspx
Some tools:
CABI identification keys https://www.cabi.org/cpc/identification-keys/
Regards
Plant damages are identified by damage symptoms in and around the damaged plants. These damaged symptoms can be definitive to make estimates of causative agents which are best identified by plant damage keys. The following link for plant damage might be helpful:
https://erec.ifas.ulf.edu > fciig > pddk
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