Description
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.
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.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
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
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Geographic Coverage
southern Africa
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-38.44, 9.69], North East [-14.4, 40.59] |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://iptbeta.sanbi.org.za/resource?r=diatom |
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