University of Amsterdam (NL) - Páramo Vegetation Research, paramo in the Sabana de Bogota area, Colombia
Citation
Cleef A M, Reyes S P (2022). University of Amsterdam (NL) - Páramo Vegetation Research, paramo in the Sabana de Bogota area, Colombia. Version 7.7. University of Amsterdam / IBED. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/6ccpt4 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-09-01.Description
The Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) from University of Amsterdam (UvA) has been working on the Paramos of Colombia since 1970, collecting information on different aspects of plant ecology. The data source is the field data from professor Antoine Cleef (collected in one field campaign in 1978) as part of his PhD thesis, finished in 1981. The study provides information on the occurrence and location of 90 plant species from the Paramo in this area. For the purpose of the GBIF data-publishing, vegetation releve data were converted into species occurrence data.Purpose
Purpose 1: Data in TurboVeg Purpose 2: data converted to species occurrence. Data repatriation to Colombia to be used in actual research.Sampling Description
Study Extent
The study was done in the paramos area close to the municipality of Chia - Sabana de Bogota (Cundinamarca province) in september 1891.Sampling
The vegetation sampling was done by the relevé method following the Braun-Blanquet principles. The relevé is a list of the plants in a delimited plot of vegetation, with information on species cover and on substrate and other abiotic features in the plot. The vegetation releve data were converted into species occurrence data.Quality Control
The original data was taken in field books, consisting either of a valid species name or a code of the specimen with collection of it for its later taxonomical identification (when identification on the field was not possible). In total 3 releves were produced consisting of a species list with its cover, date, location, altitude, slope, etc. The data of "Sabana de Bogotá-Chia" remained in paper until 2011, when the NLBIF financed digitizing the data. The data was digitized using the software TurboVeg, which is a software design for this type of vegetation information and then exported from community data into species occurrence data. The data stored in TurboVeg was checked to identify errors in the information or gaps needed to be filled. The two main fields identified to be checked/completed were the georeference data with its precision and the validation of the taxonomy of each species.Method steps
- Releve data was stored in the software TurboVeg and then exported into species occurrence data. The species list used in TurboVeg was checked by an expert to confirm the valid taxonomy (taking into account taxonomy changes, synonyms, etc). (Guido van Reenen, paramo species list. This list was cross-checked with The Plant List (http://www.theplantlist.org/), for the period July 2011 until February 2013 (during this time frame the names where the accepted). All the dataset lacks georeference and precison information. Also there is no specific habitat indication. In 2013 to improve de dataset quality, this data was completed as detail and precise as possible, but due to time restriction no georeference was given to the data and only a general indication for the habitat type was given (paramo).
Taxonomic Coverages
All plants identified to species level. Vegetation including phanerogams, bryophytes and lichens
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Plantaecommon name: Phanerogams rank: kingdom
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Plantaecommon name: Bryophytes rank: kingdom
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Fungicommon name: Lichens rank: kingdom
Geographic Coverages
The paramo area is located in the "Sabana de Bogota" which is a plain or a high plateau located in the center of Colombia on the eastern cordillera of the Colombian Andes.
The paramo is located close by the Chia municipality in de Cundinamarca province. The average altitude of the plateau is 2600m.a.s.l. and the dataset covers an altitudinal range from 2720m.a.s.l. up to 2950m.a.s.l.
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Antoine M. Cleeforiginator
position: Professor
University of Amsterdam
Science Park 904
Amsterdam
NL-1098HX
Noord-Holland
NL
email: cleef@uva.nl
S. Paola Reyes
metadata author
position: Research Assistent
NLBIF, IBED, University of Amsterdam
Science Park 904
Amsterdam
NL-1098HX
Noord-Holland
NL
email: paolita.reyes@gmail.com
Niels Raes
processor
position: Node Manager
NLBIF
PO Box 9517
Leiden
NL-2300 RA
NL
Telephone: +31.71.7519362
email: nlbif@naturalis.nl
homepage: http://www.nlbif.nl
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4329-4892
Jeroen Creuwels
programmer
position: Data manager
NLBIF
PO Box 9517
Leiden
NL-2300 RA
Zuid-Holland
NL
Telephone: +31.71.7519362
email: nlbif@naturalis.nl
homepage: https://www.nlbif.nl
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6131-7026
Antoine M. Cleef
administrative point of contact
position: Professor
University of Amsterdam
Science Park 904
Amsterdam
NL-1098HX
Noord-Holland
NL
email: cleef@uva.nl