Description
The BioFresh Pond Database contains sampling records of different biological groups (mainly amphibia, invertebrates, macrophytes) at 460 European ponds. The data were collated from scientific literature and unpublished sources.
See http://www.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu/metadb/bf_mdb_view.php?entryID=BF76 for additional metadata.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 17,532 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Birk, Sebastian (2013). BioFresh Pond Database
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is BioFresh. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: e0aff3c8-3e32-412b-888c-fde75c2e8750. BioFresh publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Society for the Management of Electronic Biodiversity Data.
Keywords
generalfreshwater; Agriculture; Terrestrial Hydrosphere; Farming; Environment; Inland Waters; Occurrence
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Geographic Coverage
Continent: Europe
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [36.9, -9.1], North East [70, 36.5] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Species | Amphibians, Mollusca, Crabs, Ephemeroptera, Odonata, Trichoptera, Zooplankton, Macrophytes |
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Sampling Methods
No Description available
Method step description:
- commonly used series of methods steps regarding amphibians (e.g. sampling, identification, data management)
- commonly used series of methods steps regarding macro invertebrates (e.g. sampling, identification, data management)
- commonly used series of methods steps regarding zooplankton (e.g. sampling, identification, data management)
- commonly used series of methods steps regarding macrophytes (e.g. sampling, identification, data management)
Additional Metadata
In addition to respecting the community norms outlined at http://www.canadensys.net/norms please note that data owners have indicated that they must be informed of publication 45 days in advance and can object the use of the dataset within 30 days.
| Alternative Identifiers | BF76 |
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| BioFresh Pond Data | |
| doi:10.13148/bf76 | |
| e0aff3c8-3e32-412b-888c-fde75c2e8750 | |
| http://data.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu/ipt/resource?r=bf76 |