Research database of Madagascar grasses compiled by Maria Vorontsova

Occurrence
Latest version published by Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre - Royal Botanic Gardens Kew on May 20, 2019 Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre - Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

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Description

This dataset contains the Poaceae data collected in Madagascar. They are provided from the research database of Madagascar grasses compiled by Dr Maria Vorontsova. This publication is linked to the BID grasses project (BID-AF2017-0103-SMA) which is funded by GBIF through the European Union funding.

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 2,407 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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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre - Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 15d76f87-6d16-4948-b4d5-f7d50a168aa6.  Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre - Royal Botanic Gardens Kew publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Madagascar.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Madagascar

Contacts

Marie Linah Rabarivola
  • Originator
Database Manager/Botanist
Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre
Lot II J 131 B
101 Ambodivoanjo, Ivandry
Antananarivo
MG
+261 20 22 423 68
Henintsoa Razanajatovo
  • Metadata Provider
Database Officer
Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre
Lot II J 131 B
101 Ambodivoanjo, Ivandry
Antananarivo
MG
+261 20 22 423 68
Velosoa Razafiniary
  • Metadata Provider
Database Officer
Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre
Lot II J 131 B
101 Ambodivoanjo, Ivandry
Antananarivo
MG
+261 20 22 423 68
Hélène Ralimanana
  • Metadata Provider
Team Manager
Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre
Lot II J 131 B
101 Ambodivoanjo, Ivandry
Antananarivo
MG
+ 261 20 22 423 68
Maria Vorontsova
  • Point Of Contact
Research Leader (Grasses)
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Richmond, Surrey
GB
+44 (0)20 8332 5022
Maria Vorontsova
  • Point Of Contact
Research Leader (Grasses)
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
TW9 3AE Richmond, Surrey
GB
+44 (0)20 8332 5022

Geographic Coverage

Madagascar

Bounding Coordinates South West [-26.981, 42.275], North East [-11.437, 51.416]

Taxonomic Coverage

Poaceae of Madagascar according to grass specimen collections from the research database compiled by Dr Maria Vorontsova

Family Poaceae (Grass, Bozaka)

Project Data

Images of herbarium specimens were sent to Madagascar and full data transcription and georeferencing took place. Data from TAN and Dr Maria Vorontsova’s research were compiled in the grass database. A checklist of the species which are endemic , alien and/or native are extracted from the book by Jean Bosser (1969)

Title Alien, native and endemic grasses of Madagascar
Identifier BID-AF2017-0103-SMA
Funding this project is co-funded by the European Union, GBIF and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Study Area Description Grasses of Madagascar
Design Description The objectives of this project were to digitize all Madagascar and surrounding islands grass specimens from Paris herbarium, making the updated identification of these specimens from Paris and also from the data of TAN herbarium and doing the georeferencing of specimens which are not yet have any coordinates information. Around 14000 data entries with high quality are published on GBIF portal with one checklist of the Madagascar grasses by using the data from Bosser researches. These data are published via the MadBIF IPT and an atlas of Madagascar grasses will be provided.

The personnel involved in the project:

Hélène Ralimanana
  • Principal Investigator
Maria Vorontsova
  • Curator
Solo Hery Rapanarivo
  • User
Vololoniaina Jeannoda
  • User
Denis Filer
  • Programmer
Marc Pignal
  • Content Provider
Henintsoa Razanajatovo
  • Content Provider
Velosoa Razafiniary
  • Content Provider
Marie Linah Rabarivola
  • Publisher

Sampling Methods

No Description available

Quality Control To ensure that the data to be transferred to GBIF portal has a high quality, the database manager has done weekly a double check of data quality from the database officers. The checked data were cleaned and standardised in a BRAHMS database.

Method step description:

  1. BRAHMS data reconciliation, data cleaning, publishing

Bibliographic Citations

  1. BRAHMS database, Management of Natural History, University of Oxford https://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 15d76f87-6d16-4948-b4d5-f7d50a168aa6
http://ipt.madbif.mg/resource?r=research_maria_vorontsova