Research database of Madagascar grasses compiled by Maria Vorontsova

Marie Linah Rabarivola1, Henintsoa Razanajatovo1, Velosoa Razafiniary1, Hélène Ralimanana1, Maria Vorontsova2

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

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

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Abstract

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.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, Madagascar

Project details

Project title: Alien, native and endemic grasses of Madagascar
Personnel: Hélène Ralimanana, Maria Vorontsova, Solo Hery Rapanarivo, Vololoniaina Jeannoda, Denis Filer, Marc Pignal, 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 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.

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

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Poaceae of Madagascar according to grass specimen collections from the research database compiled by Dr Maria Vorontsova
Taxonomic ranks
Family: Poaceae
Common names: Grass, Bozaka

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Madagascar
Coordinates: 26°58'51.6''S and 11°26'13.2''S Latitude; 42°16'30''E and 51°24'57.6''E Longitude 

Methods

Method step description: BRAHMS data reconciliation, data cleaning, 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 Research database of Madagascar grasses compiled by Maria Vorontsova
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.madbif.mg/archive.do?r=research_maria_vorontsova
Publication date of data: 2019-05-20
Language: English
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/