Occurrence

South African National Diatom Collection (SANDC)

Latest version published by South African National Biodiversity Institute on 22 September 2016 South African National Biodiversity Institute
The South African National Diatom Collection (SANDC) contains many thousands of records pertaining to the distribution and abundance of the diatom species of southern Africa. These records carry intrinsic value as they describe the occurrence and distribution of endemic southern African species as well as proving valuable for the hind-casting of water quality in rivers and streams around South Africa.
Publication date:
22 September 2016
License:
CC-BY 4.0

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 5,623 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Downloads

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Data as a DwC-A file download 5,623 records in English (126 kB) - Update frequency: unknown
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Versions

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Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is South African National Biodiversity Institute. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 2cb89f7c-75ac-470b-b372-dc9928a7d7b2.  South African National Biodiversity Institute publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by South African Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Dr. Jonathan Taylor
Project leader
North-West University
Private Bag X6001
2520 Potchefstroom
North-West
ZA
+27 18 299 1096
http://www.nwu.ac.za

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Dr. Jonathan Taylor
Project leader
North-West University
Private Bag X6001
2520 Potchefstroom
North-West
ZA
+27 18 299 1096
http://www.nwu.ac.za

Who filled in the metadata:

Fhatani Ranwashe
Data Technician
South African National Biodiversity Institute
Private Bag X7, Kirstenbosch
7735 Claremont
Western Cape
ZA
0217998738

Who else was associated with the resource:

User
Fhatani Ranwashe

Geographic Coverage

southern Africa

Bounding Coordinates South West [-38.44, 9.69], North East [-14.4, 40.59]

Additional Metadata