Subset of the herbarium database from Université Libre de Bruxelles (BRLU) for Africa.

This dataset gathers the digitized data of herbarium collections present in the Herbarium of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. The majority of the samples originates from Africa. Most of the collection consists of dried plants mounted on herbarium sheets, but it also comprises special collections preserved in alcohol and a collection of dried samples in silica-gel. The best represented countries in the collection are Congo (RDC), Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic, Congo Brazzaville, São Tomé and Príncipe, Cameroon and Gabon. Each entry has data on: 1. Taxonomic identity 2. Geographic location 3. Collector and collecting information
 
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. Subset of the herbarium database from Université Libre de Bruxelles (BRLU) for Africa.. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/87177d1b-54f4-4ca2-a7de-a5db91f8b605

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Date ( Creation )
2014-11-01
Identifier
Rainbio_BRLU
Status
Completed

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Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 INSPIRE themes ( Theme )
  • Environmental monitoring facilities
Geounits ( Place )
  • Gabon , Africa , Republic of Congo , Democratic Republic of the Congo , Cameroon , Sao Tome and Principe , Equatorial Guinea , Middle Africa
GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4 ( Theme )
  • tropical forest , biodiversity , natural forest , forest conservation , tropical forest ecosystem , primary forest , biogeography , geo-referenced data , geo-referenced information , geographic information system , flowering plant , plant species , wild plant
Keywords
  • Project Rainbio , regional coverage
Keywords ( Theme )
  • herbarium , specimen information , natural history collection , species distribution
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Classification
Unclassified
Spatial representation type
Text, table
Denominator
50000
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Biota
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Supplemental Information
Reference system identifier
EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) / 7.9
Distribution format
  • Excel (10 )

OnLine resource
Herbarium of the Université Libre de Bruxelles  
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Dataset
Other
Statement
1. We extracted for the RAINBIO database 62 380 records in November 2014.

Metadata

File identifier
87177d1b-54f4-4ca2-a7de-a5db91f8b605   XML
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Parent identifier
7Cd20604bc-ce2d-444f-b4b6-e73e55ad3ef2
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Hierarchy level name
Date stamp
2017-02-15T11:09:20
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

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