Catalogue of the plant communities of Madeira and Porto Santo

José Carlos Costa; Jorge Capelo; Roberto Jardim; Miguel Sequeira; Dalila Espírito-Santo; Mário Lousã; Suzana Fontinha; Carlos Aguiar; Salvador Rivas-Martínez

doi:10.15468/4pey4p

Catalogue of the plant communities of Madeira and Porto Santo

Citation

Costa J C, Capelo J, Jardim R, Sequeira M, Espírito-Santo D, Lousã M, Fontinha S, Aguiar C, Rivas-Martínez S, Tomás D, Coelho P (2021). Catalogue of the plant communities of Madeira and Porto Santo. Version 1.2. Instituto Superior de Agronomia / Universidade de Lisboa. Sampling event dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/4pey4p accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-14.

Description

This dataset is a catalogue of plant species observed in plant communities in Madeira and Porto Santo islands. It is based on the syntaxonomic and floristic catalogue of the plant communities of Madeira and Porto Santo, published on Quercetea vol. 6, published in 2004. The sampling is based on field trips performed in the same year. The Madeira and Porto Santo Vegetation Catalogue data includes 119 plant families.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

Plant communities catalogue of Madeira and Porto Santo islands published in 2004.

Sampling

Cover-abundance assessment of plant species recorded in different plant communities according to the Braun-Blanquet scale.

Quality Control

Data of all the inventories referred in the publication (tables and text) was inserted in a specific relational database built specifically for the project, which implemented several quality control methods. In the preparation of the dataset for GBIF publication, data consistency was verified using cluster algorithms using OpenRefine.

Method steps

Publication data was exported to csv and reinterpreted attributes matching to DwC standard terms. Information was divided in two tables, event and occurrences. The event table contains location, georeferentiation and sampling method, and the occurrence table contains occurrence and taxon information.
Geographic coordinates and uncertainty radius of sampled locations were obtained by using the GEOLocate Web Application tool, considering the provided place description and altitude. Additional geographic information was later obtained through a geographic layer in shape file format, using WGS84 as the reference system, exported to csv and attributes matched to DwC standard terms.

Taxonomic Coverages

The plant species identified in the catalogue belong to 40 orders, 359 genus and 651 species of vascular plants, 5 orders, 11 genus and 15 species of non vascular plants, 9 orders, 17 genus and 18 species of Bryophytes and 2 species of lichens

Plantae
rank: kingdom
Anthocerotophyta
rank: phylum
Bryophyta
rank: phylum
Marchantiophyta
rank: phylum
Tracheophyta
rank: phylum
Anthocerotopsida
rank: class
Bryopsida
rank: class
Jungermanniopsida
rank: class
Marchantiopsida
rank: class
Gnetopsida
rank: class
Liliopsida
rank: class
Lycopodiopsida
rank: class
Magnoliopsida
rank: class
Pinopsida
rank: class
Polypodiopsida
rank: class

Geographic Coverages

Madeira and Porto Santo Islands

Bibliographic Citations

Costa, J.C., Capelo, J., Jardim, R., Sequeira, M., Espírito Santo, D., Lousã, M., Fontinha, S., Aguiar, C. and Rivas-Martinez, S., 2004. Catálogo sintaxonómico e florístico das comunidades vegetais da Madeira e do Porto Santo. Quercetea, 6, 61-185. -

Contacts

José Carlos Costa
originator

Jorge Capelo
originator

Roberto Jardim
originator

Miguel Sequeira
originator

Dalila Espírito-Santo
originator

Mário Lousã
originator

Suzana Fontinha
originator

Carlos Aguiar
originator

Salvador Rivas-Martínez
originator

Diana Tomás
metadata author
ISA
PT
email: dianarstomas@gmail.com

Paula Coelho
metadata author
ISA
PT
email: paula.cris.coelho@gmail.com

José Carlos Costa
administrative point of contact