Description
These data published are all Poaceae herbarium specimens collected in Madagascar and the surrounding Islands (Comoros, La Reunion, Mauritius, Seychelles, Glorioso Islands, Europa Island, Juan de Nova, Mayotte), held in Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris herbarium (MNHN). They are provided from specimens collected between 1769-2016. We take this opportunity from our BID grasses project (BID-AF2017-0103-SMA) which is funded by GBIF through the European Union, to compile data from the transcription of Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN) specimen images. We have done the georeferencing of old specimens using webs georeferencing tools, the gazetteer of Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) and KMCC and the georeferencing methodology of taxon observation occurrences in the standard elementary exchange data (Vest, 2016).
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 13,968 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.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
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: ac8e5183-e233-4168-96a5-67541049aa67. 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; Grass; Poaceae; Madagascar; Comoros; La Reunion; Mauritius; Seychelles; Glorioso Islands; Europa Island; Juan de Nova; Mayotte; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider
- Database Manager/Botanist
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- Point Of Contact
- Research Leader (Grasses) | Comparative Plant & Fungal Biology
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- Database officer
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- Database officer
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- Botanist and database manager
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- Point Of Contact
- Team Manager
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- Content Provider
- Chargé de mission
- Direction des collections, Case postale 57 rue Cuvier, 75231
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Geographic Coverage
Madagascar and the surrounding islands (Comoros, La Reunion, Mauritius, Seychelles, Glorioso Islands, Europa Island, Juan de Nova, Mayotte)
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-28.304, 39.551], North East [2.109, 75.234] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Poaceae of Madagascar and surrounding islands according to Poaceae specimen collections from MNHN Herbarium
| Family | Poaceae (Grass, Bozaka) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | 1769 to 2016 |
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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 |
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| 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 and the surrounding islands (sector AFM) |
| 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:
- Principal Investigator
- Curator
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- Metadata Provider
- Programmer
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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. |
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Method step description:
- Data transcription from MNHN specimen images, georeferencing of oldest specimen by using MBG and KMCC gazetteer and the website georeferencing tools (geonames, google earth, getamap), updating of the scientific name by Dr Maria Vorontsova (Grass specialist), cleaning data, publishing.
Bibliographic Citations
- Frédéric VEST,2016. Géoréférencement des occurrences d'observation de taxons et représentation cartographique dans Ginco. Version : 0.4 du 09/05/2016
- http://www.geonames.org/
- http://www.getamap.org
- https://www.google.co.za/maps
- Gazetteer to Malagasy Botanical Collecting Localities http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/madagascar/gazetteer/
- BRAHMS database, Management of Natural History, University of Oxford https://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | ac8e5183-e233-4168-96a5-67541049aa67 |
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| http://ipt.madbif.mg/resource?r=alien_native_and_endemic_grasses_of_madagascar |