Odonata Database of Africa

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

Point locality database of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata) of continental Africa. Database of the IUCN SSC Dragonfly Specialist Group. Covers continental Africa including some island like Seychelles, Socotra, Bioko, Sao Tome and Principe and Canary Island but excluding Madagascar. Data derive from literature, museum collections and own observations of the group members and other collectors.

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 119,936 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:

Clausnitzer, V., K.-D.B. Dijkstra, R. Koch, J.-P. Boudot, W.R.T. Darwall, J. Kipping, B. Samraoui, M.J. Samways, J.P. Simaika, F. Suhling (2012). Focus on African Freshwaters: hotspots of dragonfly diversity and conservation concern. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10: 129-134.

Rights

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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: 929d10ff-6f80-4ab3-a422-509c6721d402.  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; Biological Classification; Biota; Metadata

Contacts

KD Dijkstra
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Principal Investigator
Jens Kipping
  • Content Provider
  • Metadata Provider
  • Programmer
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Clausnitzer, V., K.-D.B. Dijkstra, R. Koch, J.-P. Boudot, W.R.T. Darwall, J. Kipping, B. Samraoui, M.J. Samways, J.P. Simaika, F. Suhling
  • Author

Geographic Coverage

Continent: Africa

Bounding Coordinates South West [-34.689, -25.241], North East [37.316, 63.407]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Sampling Methods

No Description available

Method step description:

  1. commonly used series of methods steps regarding macro invertebrates (e.g. sampling, identification, data management)

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Associated publication(s): Simaika, J. P. and M. J. Samways. 2009. Reserve selection using Red Listed taxa in three global biodiversity hotspots: Dragonflies in South Africa. Biological Conservation 142: 638-651.
  2. BioFresh (publisher), Dijkstra K.-D.B., Kipping J. (providers) (2013) Odonata Database of Africa. Published on http://data.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu, accessed on [date]. doi:10.13148/bfcf21

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers BF_CF21
ODA
doi:10.13148/bfcf21