Hi Harold, yes it is possible to report on the biotopes you have recorded in Recorder 6. You can use the Report Wizard where you can report on either taxa or biotopes or both; or it is possible to create a custom report using XML Reports.

Charles

Hi Charles,

Can I add to Harold's query, as I've heard several instances now where there's confusion about this (including my own).  What Harold is trying to do is determine which taxa occur in specific biotopes.  When using the report wizard, it is possible to generate a report about biotopes, but the Taxon fields don't appear in this, which means, for instance, if you have a biotope of woodland, it appears to be impossible to generate a list of taxa that occur in woodland.  Similarly, the biotope fields don't appear when you're generating a taxon report.  It is possible in the wizard to list measurements and filter for specific features of the site, but this generally isn't associated with a specific taxon.  For instance, a particular woodlouse might be found in a wall in a woodland.  The wall and woodland might be topographical features listed on the site record, but there is apparently no way to state which of these features the taxon was located.

I've no doubt that, as this is such a fundamental analytical tool in zoology, it's possible to do, but I can't work out how to do it.  Hope you (or someone) can help.

Alistair

Actually, although it's not there at the moment, the Report Wizard could quite easily be persuaded to provide an "Associated Biotope" attribute for taxon reports. Sarah, another one to add to the list!

I am pleased to know that I haven't missed anything that is already available in R6 to provide the information I need. Actually, the analysis which I most often need to perform is to find out the range and frequency of Biotopes recorded as being associated with a given taxa. I look forward to something becoming available soon. There is a posible problem. When several taxa are recorded from one localty, biotope information may have only been recorded for a single taxa and not necessarily to all the listed species for the locality. Harold

Sorry that I seem to be confusing the issue. To be specific I would like to know all the biotopes (BTO Habitat Codes) associated with records of Corn Bunting. The locations are not required for such an analysis.

The reason for mentioning locations is that when one opens a survey and selects an event location and field observations a list of species is shown followed by one or more biotopes. It is not clear which species is associated with which biotope. My concern was, could this influence the analysis of species and biotopes?

In an ideal world I would like every taxon record to be accompanied by (or associated with) a biotope record. The scientific application would be to obtain a histogram showing the numbers of each category of biotope associated with the records of a given species on the database in order to evaluate a species preferences. Although I may have expressed myself badly I hope that the purpose of my enquiry is now clear.

That's good news. There are also going to be many more XML Reports (also made by Mike) in the new version of Recorder. I'm currently testing them.