Description
This dataset contains all the scientific names used in the national herbarium database. Since the 1970's, Vanuatu managed a national herbarium. All the plants collection made in the country have to be stored in this herbarium. In 2012, the specimens have been registered in a local database, except the fungi and mosses collection.
Data Records
The data in this checklist resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 1,894 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Department of Forests (DoF). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 7214d7ff-b8a4-4d70-b9b5-98420a63ff09. Department of Forests (DoF) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme.
Keywords
Checklist; Derivedfromoccurrence; Herbarium; plantae; vascular plants; taxonomic list; Vanuatu; New Hebrides
Contacts
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Curator
- Metadata Provider
- Curator assistant
Geographic Coverage
Vanuatu
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-21.125, 165.41], North East [-11.351, 175.43] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Vascular plants
| Kingdom | Plantae |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1970-01-01 / 2017-01-01 |
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Project Data
In 1774, during the second voyage of Captain Cook, the first plant specimens of the New Hebrides were collected. Despite numerous expeditions during 250 years, Vanuatu has neither Flora nor taxonomic checklist. Only 70 plant species –out of about 1400 - are already listed by the IUCN. Plants or animals biodiversity data, on protected areas or on invasive species, are scattered and difficult to mobilize. Vanuatu is a country with a small population and has to collaborate with specialists from all around the world to study its biodiversity. Gathering biodiversity data at national level is strongly important: this is the only way to make them available for environmental policies. Currently, national structures wish to organize then to share some biodiversity data. VaBiDa project concerns organization and sharing of mainly three kind of data: specimen data from herbarium, invasive species data, already organized and partially stored in dedicated databases needing improvement, and data on protected areas. This project will also mobilize biodiversity data for IUCN status conservation assessments. Seven partners are engaged together in VaBiDA: 2 governmental agencies (the Department of Environmental Protection and Conservation (DEPC) and the Department of Forestry (DoF)), 3 of their partners already implied on these issues (NYBG from USA, UMR AMAP (IRD, CIRAD) from France and a consultant Laurence Ramon) and 2 new partners (GBIF France and Endemia -New Caledonia). Others local partners involved in biodiversity and conservation – governmental agencies or NGO- will participate to VaBiDa through meetings and trainingson, especially for mobilizing new Vanuatu biodiversity data.
| Title | VaBiDa: Gathering, sharing and mobilizing biodiversity data in Vanuatu |
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| Identifier | BID-PA2016-0001-NAC |
| Funding | Funded By European Union GBIF Co Funded By Department of Forests (DoF) – Vanuatu |
The personnel involved in the project:
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Vanuatu Nationa Herbarium (PVNH) |
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| Collection Identifier | PVNH |
| Specimen preservation methods | Dried and pressed |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.gbif.fr/resource?r=pvnh_checklist |
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