Description
The data collection contains species occurrence records of freshwate diatom taxa from the Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles). The species records have been collated from existing historical museum records and collections as well as from published scientific literature sources. The data set is a work in progress and more data will be added to it over time. The focus initially will be on Madagascar, followed by the smaller islands in no particular order.
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 333 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:
Taylor. J., Ross-Gillespie, V., Eustache, M., and Schmidt-Kloiber, A. (2019). Historical Freshwater Diatom Data from the Indian Ocean Islands.
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 Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 42ac1433-d581-4480-8336-0078141a3ca3. 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
Aquatic Ecology; Freshwater; Diatoms; Aquatic Ecosystem; rivers; general freshwater; Biosphere; Climate Indicators; Biota; Environment; Inland Waters; Occurrence; Observation
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Madagascar
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-26.431, 41.133], North East [-11.178, 51.942] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Diatom data
| Species | Diatoms |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1921-01-01 / 2014-01-01 |
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Project Data
The project aims to address the gap in freshwater biodiversity knowledge for the Indian Ocean Islands.
| Title | The Forgotten African Islands |
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| Identifier | BID-AF2017-0306-NAC |
| Funding | GBIF BID (Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Biodiversity Information for Developent) |
| Study Area Description | Indian Ocean Islands |
The personnel involved in the project:
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Sampling Methods
Data extracted from literature.
| Study Extent | Data extracted from literature. |
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Method step description:
- Commonly used series of methods steps regarding (benthic) diatoms (e.g. sampling, identification, data management).
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | FAI_2 |
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| IOI - Historic freshwater diatom data | |
| 42ac1433-d581-4480-8336-0078141a3ca3 | |
| https://data.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu/ipt/resource?r=fai_2_diatoms |