Freshwater biodiversity of the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe: Assessing conservation priorities using primary species-occurrence data

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Dernière version Publié par Test Organization #1 le févr. 14, 2023 Test Organization #1
Date de publication:
14 février 2023
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Test Organization #1
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Description

The Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe harbors several freshwater species of conservation interest, such as birds, invertebrates, fish and amphibians, whose numbers and distribution are little known. The impacts of the on-going human activities and threats such as agricultural expansion, illegal mining activities and introduction of alien invasive species on the local wetland biodiversity, and the integrity of the ecosystem in the region is also not very clear. A related problem is the inaccessibility and unavailability of the relevant data on the wetland biodiversity from previous studies and surveys, for policy and decision making in the area. This project seeks to mobilise the much required data on freshwater biodiversity in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe and make use of Biodiversity Informatics tools to identify the important sites for Conservation of Freshwater biodiversity, with a focus on fish, invertebrates, amphibians and bird species in the region. The outputs from this project will therefore help to show policy makers. Wildlife managers, researchers and conservationists where to target resources and conservation effort should be target and will help protect the biodiversity that still occur in the unprotected wetlands of this region, that could be lost to human activities such as clearing for agriculture.

Enregistrements de données

Les données de cette ressource checklist ont été publiées sous forme d'une Archive Darwin Core (Darwin Core Archive ou DwC-A), le format standard pour partager des données de biodiversité en tant qu'ensemble d'un ou plusieurs tableurs de données. Le tableur de données du cœur de standard (core) contient 336 enregistrements.

1 tableurs de données d'extension existent également. Un enregistrement d'extension fournit des informations supplémentaires sur un enregistrement du cœur de standard (core). Le nombre d'enregistrements dans chaque tableur de données d'extension est illustré ci-dessous.

Taxon (noyau)
336
Distribution 
336

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Comment citer

Les chercheurs doivent citer cette ressource comme suit:

Mafuwe K, Broadley S, Sithole N, Dhliwayo K (2018): Freshwater biodiversity of the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe: Assessing conservation priorities using primary species-occurrence data. v1.4. Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe. Dataset/Checklist. http://www.nhmbyo.co.zw/ipt/resource?r=eastern_highlands_species&v=1.4

Droits

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L’éditeur et détenteur des droits de cette ressource est Test Organization #1. Ce travail est sous licence Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0.

Enregistrement GBIF

Cette ressource a été enregistrée sur le portail GBIF, et possède l'UUID GBIF suivante : da695790-e2b9-4cf0-85e8-f00c43b5a0cb.  Test Organization #1 publie cette ressource, et est enregistré dans le GBIF comme éditeur de données avec l'approbation du GBIF Secretariat.

Mots-clé

Checklist; Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe; Freshwater species; Checklist

Contacts

Kudzai Mafuwe
  • Fournisseur Des Métadonnées
  • Créateur
  • Personne De Contact
Curator
Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe
Bulawayo
ZW
Sheila Broadley
  • Créateur
  • Personne De Contact
Curator
Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe
Bulawayo
ZW
Nobuhle Sithole
  • Créateur
  • Personne De Contact
Curator
Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe
Bulawayo
ZW
Kudzanai Dhliwayo
  • Créateur
  • Personne De Contact
Curator
Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe
Bulawayo
ZW
Kudzai mafuwe
  • Fournisseur De Contenu

Couverture géographique

This dataset covers records of specimens collected from The Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe a biodiversity hotspot that forms part of the Eastern Afromontane region

Enveloppe géographique Sud Ouest [-21,806, 31,904], Nord Est [-17,141, 33,047]

Couverture taxonomique

This data set covers records from fish, invertebrates, amphibians and bird species from the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe

Class Insecta (Insects), Amphibia (Frogs), Aves (Birds), Actinopterygii (Fish)

Données sur le projet

This project seeks to mobilize the much required data on freshwater biodiversity in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe and will make use of Biodiversity Informatics tools to identify the important sites for Conservation of Freshwater biodiversity, with a focus on fish, invertebrates, amphibians and bird species in the region.

Titre Freshwater biodiversity of the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe: Assessing conservation priorities using primary species-occurrence data
Identifiant BID-AF2017-0023-SMA
Financement This project was made possible with funding from the GBIF and the EU, through the Biodiversity Information Development program (BID).
Description du domaine d'étude / de recherche The project includes records of specimens collected from the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe; a biodiversity hotspot along the Chimanimani-Inyanga Biodiversity corridor which extends for about 300 kilometres (190 mi) along Zimbabwe's eastern border with Mozambique

Les personnes impliquées dans le projet:

Kudzai Mafuwe
Sheila Broadley
Nobuhle Sithole
Kudzanai Dhilwayo

Méthodes d'échantillonnage

All records of freshwater species from the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe identified to genus, species or sub species level, collected between 1911 and 2017 were collated and used to develop this checklist. The records where digitized into Microsoft Excel (2010) database and the records where cleaned using OPEN REFINE Data cleaning tool (Version 2.5). Taxonomic ranks, status and authorship was also verified using The Catalogue of life List Matching Service (2017), Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) database, The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) name parser (2011) and The Global Names index database where possible.

Etendue de l'étude This study includes records of invertebrates, fish, birds and amphibians recorded from the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe obtained from the museum specimen records and literature found in the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe Zoology Collections.
Contrôle qualité While standardizing the records to DarwinCore standards, we carried out a major effort for checking errors and inconsistencies among the data using Excel, OPEN REFINE and GBIF Data validation tools. We followed the guidelines proposed by Chapman 2005 and also checked for synonyms and taxonomic errors in the data set

Description des étapes de la méthode:

  1. The creation of the checklist included the following processes: 1 A list of invertebrates, fish, birds and amphibians recorded from the given study area was obtained from the museum specimen records and literature found in the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe Zoology Collections. 2 Digitization and documentation of the list was carried out into Microsoft Excel (2010) database using Darwin Core Standards. 3. Data validation and cleaning was then carried out in OPEN REFINE (Version 2.5) as well as Microsoft Excel (2010) data validation tools. 4 The determination of taxonomic status and authorship and checking for taxonomic errors was carried out using The Catalogue of life List Matching Service, Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) database, The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) name parser and The Global Names index database where possible. 5. The dataset was then uploaded and published on the GBIF database using The Integrated Publishing Toolkit (version 1.2) for the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe.

Métadonnées additionnelles