Ostracod Metadatabase of Environmental and Geographical Attributes

Occurrence
Latest version published by BioFresh on Aug 13, 2015 BioFresh
Publication date:
13 August 2015
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Description

OMEGA contains metadata for component regional databases of non-marine ostracod ecology and distribution. It includes full taxonomic names and geographical coordinates for each record treating these as both data and 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 26,027 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

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

BioFresh (publisher), Horne, D.J. (ed.) (2014). OMEGA - Ostracod Metadatabase of Environmental and Geographical Attributes (Europe, North America). Published on http://data.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu, accessed on [date].

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is BioFresh. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CCZero 1.0 License http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode and available according to the community norms at http://www.canadensys.net/norms

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: a779af82-1422-4b00-9e7f-8e1c1f07bea2.  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

rivers; lakes; wetlands; groundwater; generalfreshwater; Biosphere; Biological Classification; Paleoclimate; Biota; Metadata

Contacts

David J. Horne
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Programmer ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact ●
  • Principal Investigator
Queen Mary University of London - School of Geography
Mile End Road
E1 4NS London
GB
+442078828200
http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk
Horne, D.J. (ed.)
  • Author

Geographic Coverage

Global coverage

Bounding Coordinates South West [19.296, -139.39], North East [69.25, 36.667]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1850-01-01 / 2013-01-01

Sampling Methods

No Description available

Method step description:

  1. commonly used series of methods steps regarding other group(s) (e.g. sampling, identification, data management)

Additional Metadata

There are 3 component databases so far: NODE (Nonmarine Ostracod Distribution in Europe), owner David J.Horne, Queen Mary University of London, UK; NANODe (North American Non-marine Ostracode Database), owner Alison J. Smith, Kent State University, Ohio, USA; DOAD (Delorme Ostracode Autecological Database), owner the Canadian Museum of Nature, Gatineau, Canada. Data users are advised to contact D.J. Horne prior to using the data. Those wishing to access and use a wider range of data from component databases must contact the appropriate database owners.

Alternative Identifiers BF_CF15
OMEGA
doi:10.13148/bfcf15