Nature Atlas
Claims this atlas currently marks as unsettled or as tested and found false. A debated fact is one scholars hold competing positions on; a debunked one has been checked against the record and found not to hold. Both are kept in view rather than quietly smoothed over, with the reasoning that put each one where it stands.
251 statements marked Debated.
Ursidae, Member Species/Taxa Count8
Ursidae, Taxa
Standing
Concerns Member Species/Taxa Count
Currently States 8
Approximate described-species (or, for a genus, described-taxon) count; continually revised as species are newly described, reclassified or synonymized.
Source Catalogue of Life
Vaquita, Population Estimate10.000000
Vaquita, Species
Standing
Concerns Population Estimate
Currently States 10.000000
Acoustic and visual survey estimates in the low double digits and falling; because the species is small, shy and now extremely rare, individual surveys disagree on the exact count from one year to the next and some individuals may go undetected, so no published figure is treated as a precise census, only as evidence the population is critically small. This atlas records the lower end of recently published estimates rather than implying false precision.
Source IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Vernal Pool, Typical High Temperature (C)16.000000
Vernal Pool, Biomes
Standing
Concerns Typical High Temperature (C)
Currently States 16.000000
16C is a moderate late-spring inundation figure reported in one vernal pool microcosm study; no single accessible source gives a settled representative seasonal-high figure comparable to the cold-hatching threshold used for temperature-low-c (a separate 3 to 9C surface-to-bottom stratification difference within a pool was also found, describing a spread rather than a seasonal high). Recorded as debated rather than attested since this figure was not confirmed against the raw source text with a specific locator.
Viverridae, Member Species/Taxa Count35
Viverridae, Taxa
Standing
Concerns Member Species/Taxa Count
Currently States 35
Approximate described-species (or, for a genus, described-taxon) count; continually revised as species are newly described, reclassified or synonymized.
Source Catalogue of Life
Vulpes, Member Species/Taxa Count12
Vulpes, Taxa
Standing
Concerns Member Species/Taxa Count
Currently States 12
Approximate described-species (or, for a genus, described-taxon) count; continually revised as species are newly described, reclassified or synonymized.
Source Catalogue of Life
Walrus, Conservation StatusLeast Concern
Walrus, Species
Standing
Concerns Conservation Status
Currently States Least Concern
Two of the three walrus subspecies (Atlantic, Pacific) are IUCN Least Concern; the Laptev Sea population is IUCN Data Deficient. The article taxobox carries a single species-wide VU code that conflicts with its own prose; the prose sentence is what is cited here rather than the infobox code.
Source Walrus (Wikipedia)
Wetlands, Typical High Temperature (C)23.900000
Wetlands, Biomes
Standing
Concerns Typical High Temperature (C)
Currently States 23.900000
23.9C converts the source stated 75F summer high. Wetlands occur from the tropics to the boreal zone, so no single figure is fully meaningful; the same source and reasoning already anchor the Freshwater biome entity own temperature facts.
Source Climate In A Freshwater Biome (Sciencing)
Wetlands, Typical Low Temperature (C)1.700000
Wetlands, Biomes
Standing
Concerns Typical Low Temperature (C)
Currently States 1.700000
1.7C converts the source stated 35F winter low. Same caveat as temperature-high-c: wetlands span every climate zone.
Source Climate In A Freshwater Biome (Sciencing)
Wetlands, Annual Precipitation (mm)1143.000000
Wetlands, Biomes
Standing
Concerns Annual Precipitation (mm)
Currently States 1143.000000
1143mm is the midpoint of the cited source stated 10 to 80 inch range, the same figure and source already used on the Freshwater biome entity; wetlands occur in every climate so no single figure is fully meaningful.
Source Freshwater Biome (Earth Eclipse)
Whale Shark, Population Estimate130000.000000
Whale Shark, Species
Standing
Concerns Population Estimate
Currently States 130000.000000
Article gives a range, approximately 130,000 to 200,000 individuals worldwide, and states the population is declining; 130,000 recorded here as the low end of that range, not a settled point estimate.
Source Whale Shark (Wikipedia)
Wood Blewit, Scientific NameCollybia nuda
Wood Blewit, Species
Standing
Concerns Scientific Name
Currently States Collybia nuda
Wikipedia gives Collybia nuda since 2023 reassignment; earlier names Lepista nuda and Clitocybe nuda still in use
Source Collybia nuda