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On this page, we will highlight the basic URL parameters that can be used to create a dataquery.
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speciesname - URL Parameter
All three of the endpoints use the speciesname parameter within the URL to find data points that include the relevent species name. Multiple species names (full or partial taxonomic names) can be passed at once using multiple occurrences of speciesname in URL parameter.
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NOTE: It is possible to pass only a family or genus name within a URL parameter. For example, let's say Eucalyptus is passed as the speciesname parameter, the API will return documents for all of the species of the genus Eucalyptus. |
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output - URL Parameter
The output parameter is only available for the /species/count endpoint. This specifies what output data needs to be discovered. Its value can be either scientific_name or taxon. As the same suggests, scientific_name returns only the scientific name of the species, while taxon returns the entire taxonomy associated with the species specified with speciesname.
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https://ecoplots.tern.org.au/api/v1.0/species/count?speciesname=Allocasuarina torulosa&output=taxon
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dformat - URL Parameter
The dformat parameter is only available for the /species/observations endpoint. This specifies the datatype of the returned values, and can be formatted as either csv or ndjson.
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