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VESS Vanuatu seagrass specimens

Dataset homepage

Citation

Shaw C (2018). VESS Vanuatu seagrass specimens. Version 1.2. The Vanuatu Environmental Science Society. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/3gp71s accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-09-25.

Description

Seagrass plants collected by the Vanuatu Environmental Science Society form various locations in Vanuatu.

Purpose

The purpose of this project is to build capacity for institutions and organisations in the Pacific to mobilise and publish data. Specifically for VESS, the project is giving our organisation capacity and tools to publish the biodiversity data we are collecting currently and in the future including from a Dugong and Seagrass Conservation Project.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

The seagrass specimens were collected opportunistically whenever the VESS team travelled to a project site in Vanuatu with seagrass meadows.

Sampling

The voucher specimens were collected as per the Seagrass Watch protocols http://www.seagrasswatch.org/monitoring.html

Method steps

  1. The samples were collected and washed. Then pressed and dried before being mounted

Taxonomic Coverages

Seagrass
  1. Hydrocharitaceae
    common name: Seagrasses rank: family
  2. Cymodoceaceae
    common name: seagrasses rank: family

Geographic Coverages

Vanuatu

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Christina Shaw
originator
position: Director
Vanuatu Eviornmental Science Society
Kumal Highway
Port Vila
Shefa
VU
Telephone: +678 5510026
email: vess@vanuatuconservation.org
homepage: http://www.vanuatuconservation.org
Christina Shaw
metadata author
position: Director
Vanuatu Eviornmental Science Society
Kumal Highway
Port Vila
Shefa
VU
Telephone: +678 5510026
email: vess@vanuatuconservation.org
homepage: http://www.vanuatuconservation.org
Christina Shaw
user
email: seashawconservation@gmail.com
Christina Shaw
administrative point of contact
position: Director
Vanuatu Eviornmental Science Society
Kumal Highway
Port Vila
Shefa
VU
Telephone: +678 5510026
email: vess@vanuatuconservation.org
homepage: http://www.vanuatuconservation.org
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