A dataset of herbarium vouchered collection records on Orchidaceae endemic to Atlantic Central Africa since 1853.
This dataset gathers description for available herbarium specimens on Orchidaceae endemic to Atlantic Central Africa. It contains about 2054 georeferenced records. These data are collected/compiled by V. Droissart, B. Sonké, and T. Stévart, and used by the RAINBIO project.
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- Date ( Creation )
- 2014-10-01
- Identifier
- Rainbio_VD
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 INSPIRE themes ( Theme )
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- Environmental monitoring facilities
- Geounits ( Place )
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- Africa , Middle Africa , Republic of Congo , Equatorial Guinea , Gabon , Nigeria , Sao Tome and Principe , Cameroon
- GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4 ( Theme )
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- tropical forest , forest ecosystem , natural forest , tropical forest ecosystem , biodiversity , inventory of forest damage , primary forest , forest resource assessment , forest conservation , chorology
- Keywords
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- regional coverage , Project Rainbio
- Keywords ( Theme )
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- endemic species , herbarium , Orchidaceae , species distribution
- Keywords ( Place )
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- Lower Guinea Domain , Afromontane archipelago , Gulf of Guinea Island
- Use limitation
- Please get in touch with a point of contact.
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Agreement between potential user and point of contact.
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Denominator
- 200000
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
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- Supplemental Information
- Bibliography: Droissart V., Hardy O.J., Sonké B., Dahdouh-Guebas F., Stévart T. (2012) Subsampling Herbarium Collections to Assess Geographic Diversity Gradients: A Case-Study with endemic Orchidaceae and Rubiaceae in Cameroon. Biotropica 44(1): 44-52. Droissart V., Sonké B., Hardy O.J., Simo M., Taedoumg H., Nguembou K.C., Stévart T. (2011) Do plant families with contrasting functional traits show similar patterns of endemism? A case study with. Central African Orchidaceae and Rubiaceae. Biodiversity and Conservation 20 (7): 1507-1531.
- Distribution format
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- Excel (10 )
- OnLine resource
- The Central African Orchid database
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Other
- Statement
- 1. Data collection in the field during last 25 years. 2. Herbarium specimens housed in Belgium (BR,BRLU), Holland (L, WAG), Paris (P), Missouri (MO), Yaoundé (YA), England (BM, K), Madrid (MA). 3. Species identification is constently reviewed by points of contact. 4. We extracted for the RAINBIO database 2054 records in November 2014.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 1aea0fd6-f074-4274-878c-38d755a278b4 XML
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Parent identifier
- 7Cd20604bc-ce2d-444f-b4b6-e73e55ad3ef2
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- Date stamp
- 2017-02-15T11:03:30
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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