FBIP:IZIKO-UCT:Historical Invertebrates (1930-1980)

Albe Bosman1, Fhatani Ranwashe2

1 Iziko South African Museum, Iziko South African Museum, 25 Queen Victoria street, 8000, Cape Town, South Africa; 2 

Corresponding author(s): Albe Bosman (abosman@iziko.org.za)

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Resource Citation

Bosman A (2018): FBIP:IZIKO-UCT:Historical Invertebrates (1930-1980). v1.1. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=iziko_historical_invertebrates&v=1.1

Abstract

Around the 1930’s Stevenson and Day along with the University of Cape Town (UCT) started up the UCT ecological survey project which aimed to create a reference collection of the biodiversity along the southern African coastline and various other localities around the world (e.g. Beaufort shelf transect Alaska, Madagascar, etc.) (Griffiths et al. 2010). Initially the survey/project was conducted along the shoreline of southern Africa (estimated collection areas: 36). The survey/project was later expanded to surveying the estuaries of southern Africa (estimated collection areas: 17). The survey/project was completed by conducting deeper water trawls and dredges of the west, south and east coast of southern Africa. It is important to note that each collection area contains various collection sites, for example False Bay (collection area) contains an estimated 856 collection sites. The reference collection and registers were donated to the IZIKO South African museum in the 1960’s by UCT. Numerous amounts of literature have been published by using the data in the registers (Barnard 1951, Stock & Day 1959, Stock & Day 1962, Griffiths 1974, Blaber 1974 and Griffiths et al. 2010). Currently there are a number of taxanomic projects underway, that rely on the data contained within the registers. By making the data available in a sensible electronic format will greatly improve the time taken to complete current and future projects that rely on the registers for data. Along with the reference specimen collection it also contains a vast number of observational records, which could potentially provide a massive historical database of species occurrences dating back to more than forty years ago. Datasets such as these could potentially give us greater insights into the effects of global change on biodiversity (Chapman 2005, Chapman 2010).

Keywords: Occurrence

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=iziko_historical_invertebrates

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Global distribution
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive FBIP:IZIKO-UCT:Historical Invertebrates (1930-1980)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/archive.do?r=iziko_historical_invertebrates
Publication date of data: 2018-06-30
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-03-25
Hierarchy level: Dataset