Occurrence

FBIP: Great Escarpment Biodiversity Research Programme data mobilisation

Latest version published by South African National Biodiversity Institute on 10 December 2020 South African National Biodiversity Institute
Specimens collected from the Stormberg area will be digitized and mobilise into a virtual herbarium for the southern Escarpment (complete with images of the specimens, c.1,000 field photographs, and digital copies of the 26 field collecting-books) using the Botanical Research and Herbarium Management System (BRAHMS) platform
Publication date:
10 December 2020
License:
CC-BY 4.0

Data Records

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Barker N, Clark V, Dold T (2020): FBIP: Great Escarpment Biodiversity Research Programme data mobilisation. v1.1. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=fbip5&v=1.1

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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: f8cd9c4d-4693-40d7-9c0c-a3ce2ea2a1c3.  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:

Nigel Barker
Head of School of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria
University of Pretoria
University of Pretoria, P. Bag X20, Hatfield
0028 Pretoria
Gauteng
ZA
+2712 420 2593
Vincent Clark
Director - Afromontane Research Unit at University of the Free State
University of the Free State
Qwaqwa Campus, Private Bag X13,
9866 Phuthaditjhaba
Free State
ZA
+27587185407
Tony Dold
Curator
Selmar Schonland Herbarium, Rhodes University
Department of Botany, Rhodes University, Po Box 94
6140 Grahamstown
Eastern Cape
ZA
+270466222312

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Nigel Barker
Head of School of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria
University of Pretoria
University of Pretoria, P. Bag X20, Hatfield
0028 Pretoria
Gauteng
ZA
+2712 420 2593
Vincent Clark
Director - Afromontane Research Unit at University of the Free State
University of the Free State
Qwaqwa Campus, Private Bag X13,
9866 Phuthaditjhaba
Free State
ZA
+27587185407
Tony Dold
Curator
Selmar Schonland Herbarium, Rhodes University
Department of Botany, Rhodes University, Po Box 94
6140 Grahamstown
Eastern Cape
ZA
+270466222312

Who filled in the metadata:

Nigel Barker
Head of School of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria
University of Pretoria
University of Pretoria, P. Bag X20, Hatfield
0028 Pretoria
Gauteng
ZA
+2712 420 2593
Vincent Clark
Director - Afromontane Research Unit at University of the Free State
University of the Free State
Qwaqwa Campus, Private Bag X13,
9866 Phuthaditjhaba
Free State
ZA
+27587185407
Tony Dold
Curator
Selmar Schonland Herbarium, Rhodes University
Department of Botany, Rhodes University, Po Box 94
6140 Grahamstown
Eastern Cape
ZA
+270466222312

Who else was associated with the resource:

Processor
Mahlatse Kgatla
FBIP Data Specialist
SANBI
2 Cussonia Avenue, Brummeria
0184 Pretoria
Gauteng
ZA
0128435196
http://fbip.co.za/contact/

Geographic Coverage

South Africa (Northern Cape, Western Cape, Eastern Cape)

Bounding Coordinates South West [-33.074, 20.17], North East [-31.03, 27.225]

Taxonomic Coverage

Flowering plants

Phylum  Angiospermae,  Magnoliophyta

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2008-10-08 / 2014-12-14

Project Data

Specimens collected from the Stormberg area will be digitized and mobilise into a virtual herbarium for the southern Escarpment (complete with images of the specimens, c.1,000 field photographs, and digital copies of the 26 field collecting-books) using the Botanical Research and Herbarium Management System (BRAHMS) platform.

Title FBIP: Great Escarpment Biodiversity Research Programme data mobilisation
Identifier FBIS150528118421
Funding Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme
Study Area Description South Africa (Northern Cape, Western Cape, Eastern Cape)

The personnel involved in the project:

Principal Investigator
Nigel Barker
Principal Investigator
Vincent Clark
Principal Investigator
Tony Dold

Sampling Methods

Botanical surveys and specimen collection throughout the Stormberg area

Study Extent South Africa (Northern Cape, Western Cape, Eastern Cape)
Quality Control QGIS was used to confirm the location of points and minor geo-referencing was done

Method step description:

  1. Data input of information from specimens collected from the Stormberg area and updating or data records with missing data

Additional Metadata