All herbarium specimens of grasses from Madagascar and the surrounding islands: family Poaceae, sector AFM

Occurrence
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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

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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

Marie Linah Rabarivola
  • Metadata Provider
  • Database Manager/Botanist
Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre
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Antananarivo
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Maria Vorontsova
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  • Point Of Contact
  • Research Leader (Grasses) | Comparative Plant & Fungal Biology
Royal Botanic Garrdens Kew
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Henintsoa Razanajatovo
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  • Database officer
Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre
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101 Ambodivoanjo-Ivandry
Antananarivo
MG
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Velosoa Razafiniary
  • Metadata Provider
  • Database officer
Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre
  • Lot II J 131 B
101 Ambodivoanjo-Ivandry
Antananarivo
MG
  • +261202242368
Marie Linah Rabarivola
  • Metadata Provider
  • Botanist and database manager
Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre
  • Lot II J 131 B
101 Ambodivoanjo-Ivandry
Antananarivo
MG
  • +261202242368
Hélène Ralimanana
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  • Team Manager
Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre
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101 Ambodivoanjo-Ivandry
Antananarivo
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Marc Pignal
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MNHN
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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]

Taxonomic Coverage

Poaceae of Madagascar and surrounding islands according to Poaceae specimen collections from MNHN Herbarium

Family Poaceae (Grass, Bozaka)

Temporal Coverage

Formation Period 1769 to 2016

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 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:

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

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. 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

  1. Frédéric VEST,2016. Géoréférencement des occurrences d'observation de taxons et représentation cartographique dans Ginco. Version : 0.4 du 09/05/2016
  2. http://www.geonames.org/
  3. http://www.getamap.org
  4. https://www.google.co.za/maps
  5. Gazetteer to Malagasy Botanical Collecting Localities http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/madagascar/gazetteer/
  6. 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
http://ipt.madbif.mg/resource?r=alien_native_and_endemic_grasses_of_madagascar