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BIODIVERSITY DATA

South African National Diatom Collection (SANDC)

Latest version published by South African National Biodiversity Institute on Sep 22, 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.

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

Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:

Data as a DwC-A file download 5,623 records in English (123 KB) - Update frequency: unknown
Metadata as an EML file download in English (5 KB)
Metadata as an RTF file download in English (5 KB)

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

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

Alternative Identifiers http://197.189.235.147:8080/iptsanbi/resource?r=diatom