RAINBIO: a mega-database of tropical African vascular plants distributions
Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE Jazyk angličtina Země Bulharsko Médium electronic-ecollection
Typ dokumentu časopisecké články
PubMed
28127234
PubMed Central
PMC5234546
DOI
10.3897/phytokeys.74.9723
Knihovny.cz E-zdroje
- Klíčová slova
- Herbarium specimens, biodiversity assessment, cultivated species, digitization, georeferencing, habit, native species, taxonomic backbone, tropical forests,
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
The tropical vegetation of Africa is characterized by high levels of species diversity but is undergoing important shifts in response to ongoing climate change and increasing anthropogenic pressures. Although our knowledge of plant species distribution patterns in the African tropics has been improving over the years, it remains limited. Here we present RAINBIO, a unique comprehensive mega-database of georeferenced records for vascular plants in continental tropical Africa. The geographic focus of the database is the region south of the Sahel and north of Southern Africa, and the majority of data originate from tropical forest regions. RAINBIO is a compilation of 13 datasets either publicly available or personal ones. Numerous in depth data quality checks, automatic and manual via several African flora experts, were undertaken for georeferencing, standardization of taxonomic names and identification and merging of duplicated records. The resulting RAINBIO data allows exploration and extraction of distribution data for 25,356 native tropical African vascular plant species, which represents ca. 89% of all known plant species in the area of interest. Habit information is also provided for 91% of these species.
Botanic Garden Meise Nieuwelaan 38 1860 Meise Belgium
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement UMR DIADE 911 Avenue Agropolis 34394 Montpellier France
Missouri Botanical Garden Africa and Madagascar Department St Louis United States of America
Naturalis Biodiversity Center Darwinweg 2 2333 CR Leiden The Netherlands
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Richmond Surrey TW9 3AE UK
Wageningen University Biosystematics Group Droevendaalsesteeg 1 6708 PB Wageningen The Netherlands
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