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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. A dataset of herbarium vouchered collection records on Orchidaceae endemic to Atlantic Central Africa since 1853.. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/1aea0fd6-f074-4274-878c-38d755a278b4

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Date ( Creation )
2014-10-01
Identifier
Rainbio_VD
Status
On going

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Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 INSPIRE themes ( Theme )
  • Environmental monitoring facilities
Geounits ( Place )
  • Africa , Middle Africa , Republic of Congo , Equatorial Guinea , Gabon , Nigeria , Sao Tome and Principe , Cameroon
GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4 ( Theme )
  • tropical forest , forest ecosystem , natural forest , tropical forest ecosystem , biodiversity , inventory of forest damage , primary forest , forest resource assessment , forest conservation , chorology
Keywords
  • regional coverage , Project Rainbio
Keywords ( Theme )
  • endemic species , herbarium , Orchidaceae , species distribution
Keywords ( Place )
  • Lower Guinea Domain , Afromontane archipelago , Gulf of Guinea Island
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Classification
Unclassified
Spatial representation type
Text, table
Denominator
200000
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • 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.
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  • Excel (10 )

OnLine resource
The Central African Orchid database  
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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.

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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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