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
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: 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
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Geographic Coverage
Madagascar
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-26.981, 42.275], North East [-11.437, 51.416] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Poaceae of Madagascar according to grass specimen collections from the research database compiled by Dr Maria Vorontsova
| Family | Poaceae (Grass, Bozaka) |
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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 |
| 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. |
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Sampling Methods
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| 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:
- BRAHMS data reconciliation, data cleaning, publishing
Bibliographic Citations
- 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 |
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| http://ipt.madbif.mg/resource?r=research_maria_vorontsova |