All herbarium specimens of grasses from Madagascar and the surrounding islands: family Poaceae, sector AFM
Citation
Rabarivola M L, Vorontsova M, Razanajatovo H, Razafiniary V, Ralimanana H (2019). All herbarium specimens of grasses from Madagascar and the surrounding islands: family Poaceae, sector AFM. Version 1.24. Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre - Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/51pabx accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-12.Description
These data published are all Poaceae herbarium specimens collected in Madagascar and the surrounding Islands (Comoros, La Reunion, Mauritius, Seychelles, Glorioso Islands, Europa Island, Juan de Nova, Mayotte), held in Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris herbarium (MNHN). They are provided from specimens collected between 1769-2016. We take this opportunity from our BID grasses project (BID-AF2017-0103-SMA) which is funded by GBIF through the European Union, to compile data from the transcription of Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN) specimen images. We have done the georeferencing of old specimens using webs georeferencing tools, the gazetteer of Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) and KMCC and the georeferencing methodology of taxon observation occurrences in the standard elementary exchange data (Vest, 2016).Sampling Description
Quality Control
To ensure that the data to be transferred to GBIF portal has a high quality, the database manager has done weekly a double check of data quality from the database officers. The checked data were cleaned and standardised in a BRAHMS database.Method steps
- Data transcription from MNHN specimen images, georeferencing of oldest specimen by using MBG and KMCC gazetteer and the website georeferencing tools (geonames, google earth, getamap), updating of the scientific name by Dr Maria Vorontsova (Grass specialist), cleaning data, publishing.
Taxonomic Coverages
Poaceae of Madagascar and surrounding islands according to Poaceae specimen collections from MNHN Herbarium
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Poaceaecommon name: Grass, Bozaka rank: family
Geographic Coverages
Madagascar and the surrounding islands (Comoros, La Reunion, Mauritius, Seychelles, Glorioso Islands, Europa Island, Juan de Nova, Mayotte)
Bibliographic Citations
- Frédéric VEST,2016. Géoréférencement des occurrences d'observation de taxons et représentation cartographique dans Ginco. Version : 0.4 du 09/05/2016 -
- http://www.geonames.org/ -
- http://www.getamap.org -
- https://www.google.co.za/maps -
- Gazetteer to Malagasy Botanical Collecting Localities - http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/madagascar/gazetteer/
- BRAHMS database, Management of Natural History, University of Oxford - https://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/
Contacts
Marie Linah Rabarivolaoriginator
position: Database Manager/Botanist
Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre
Lot II J 131 B
Ambodivoanjo-Ivandry
101
Antananarivo
MG
Telephone: +261202242368
email: L.Rabarivola@kew.org
Maria Vorontsova
metadata author
position: Research Leader (Grasses) | Comparative Plant & Fungal Biology
Royal Botanic Garrdens Kew
TW9 3AB
Richmond Surrey
TW9
GB
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8332 5022
email: m.vorontsova@kew.org
Henintsoa Razanajatovo
metadata author
position: Database officer
Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre
Lot II J 131 B
Ambodivoanjo-Ivandry
101
Antananarivo
MG
Telephone: +261202242368
email: hrazanajatovo.rbgkew@moov.mg
Velosoa Razafiniary
metadata author
position: Database officer
Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre
Lot II J 131 B
Ambodivoanjo-Ivandry
101
Antananarivo
MG
Telephone: +261202242368
email: vrazafiniary.rbgkew@moov.mg
Marie Linah Rabarivola
metadata author
position: Botanist and database manager
Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre
Lot II J 131 B
Ambodivoanjo-Ivandry
101
Antananarivo
MG
Telephone: +261202242368
email: L.Rabarivola@kew.org
Hélène Ralimanana
metadata author
position: Team Manager
Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre
Lot II J 131 B
Ambodivoanjo-Ivandry
101
Antananarivo
MG
Telephone: +261202242368
email: H.Ralimanana@kew.org
Marc Pignal
content provider
position: Chargé de mission
MNHN
Direction des collections, Case postale 57 rue Cuvier, 75231
Paris CEDEX 05
43
Paris
FR
Telephone: +33(0) 1 40 79 33 7777
email: pignal@mnhn.fr
Maria Vorontsova
administrative point of contact
position: Research Leader (Grasses) | Comparative Plant & Fungal Biology
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
TW9 3AB
Richmond Surrey
TW9
GB
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8332 5022
email: m.vorontsova@kew.org
Hélène Ralimanana
administrative point of contact
position: Team Manager
Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre
Lot II J 131 B
Ambodivoanjo-Ivandry
101
Antananarivo
MG
Telephone: +261202242368
email: H.Ralimanana@kew.org