Book by Jean Bosser: Graminées des pâturages et des cultures à Madagascar, 1969

Marie Linah Rabarivola1, Velosoa Razafiniary2, Henintsoa Razanajatovo3, Hélène Ralimanana2, Maria Vorontsova4

1 Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre, Lot II J 131 B, 101, Ambodivoanjo, Ivandry, Madagascar; 2 Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre, Lot II J 131 B, 101, Ambodivoanjo, Ivandry, Madagascar; 3 Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre, Lot II J 131 B, 101, Ambodivoanjo, Ivandry; 4 Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, TW9 3AE, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom

Corresponding author(s): Marie Linah Rabarivola (l.rabarivola@kew.org), Velosoa Razafiniary (v.razafiniary@kew.org), Henintsoa Razanajatovo (h.razanajatovo@kew.org), Hélène Ralimanana (h.ralimanana@kew.org), Maria Vorontsova (m.vorontsova@kew.org)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Abstract

This checklist contains all Poaceae species which occur in Madagascar according to the list in Jean Bosser’s book. Information on the endemic, native or alien status for the 306 species treated in this book as judged by the expert Jean Bosser are provided here. This publication is linked to the BID grasses project (BID-AF2017-0103-SMA) which is funded by GBIF through the European Union funding.

Keywords: Checklist, Poaceae, Madagascar, endemic, native, introduced, Globalspeciesdataset

Project details

Project title: Alien, native and endemic grasses of Madagascar
Personnel: Hélène Ralimanana, Maria Vorontsova, Solo Hery Rapanarivo, Marc Pignal, Denis Filer, Vololoniana Jeannoda, Henintsoa Razanajatovo, Velosoa Razafiniary, Marie Linah Rabarivola
Funding: This project is co-funded by the European Union, GBIF and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Study area descriptions/descriptor: 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 were published on GBIF portal with one checklist of the Madagascar grasses by using the data from Bosser researches. These data were published via the MadBIF IPT and an atlas of Madagascar grasses was provided.

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.madbif.mg/resource?r=booser_poaceae_checklist

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Poaceae checklist from the Book by Jean Bosser, 1969
Taxonomic ranks
Family: Poaceae
Common names: Grass, Bozaka

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Madagascar
Coordinates: 26°6'57.6''S and 11°46'51.6''S Latitude; 42°37'37.2''E and 51°9'7.2''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1969

Methods

Method step description: Extraction of all species from the book of Bosser, data cleaning in BRAHMS, publishing
Quality control description: 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.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Book by Jean Bosser: Graminées des pâturages et des cultures à Madagascar, 1969
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.madbif.mg/archive.do?r=booser_poaceae_checklist
Publication date of data: 2019-02-18
Language: French
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2019-01-30
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
BRAHMS database, Management of Natural History, University of Oxford https://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/
Jean Bosser, 1969. Gaminées des pâturages et des cultures a Madagascar 435 p