Description
Seagrass plants collected by the Vanuatu Environmental Science Society form various locations in Vanuatu.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence 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 54 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.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Shaw C (2018). VESS Vanuatu seagrass specimens. The Vanuatu Environmental Science Society. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/3gp71s accessed via GBIF.org on 2018-09-03.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has not been registered with GBIF
Keywords
Occurrence; seagrass; Specimen
Contacts
- User
- User
Geographic Coverage
Vanuatu
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-20.509, 165.454], North East [-13.24, 171.519] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Seagrass
| Family | Hydrocharitaceae (Seagrasses), Cymodoceaceae (seagrasses) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | The first specimens in the collection were collected in 2017. Specimens will be continually added to the collection. |
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Project Data
This is an ongoing project to create a collection of specimens of seagrasses found in various locations in Vanuatu.
| Title | Creating a collection of seagrass specimens from Vanuatu |
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| Funding | The initial speciemens in the collection were collected as an activity of the project “Strengthening Monitoring, Community Management, and Policies for Dugong Conservation in Vanuatu” funded by the Critical Ecosystem partnership Fund. The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund is a joint initiative of l’Agence Française de Développement, Conservation International, the European Union, the Global Environment Facility, the Government of Japan, the MacArthur Foundation and the World Bank. A fundamental goal is to ensure civil society is engaged in biodiversity conservation This project is an extension of the Vanuatu component of the Dugong and Seagrass Conservation Project which is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The global project is supported by the Dugong Secretariat of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) and project managed by Mohamed bin Zayed Species (MbZ) Conservation Fund. The project in Vanuatu is implemented by VESS and supported by the Department of Environmental Protection and Conservation, the Vanuatu Fisheries Department and the Department of Tourism Data prepared and published under GBIF project "Capacity building and data mobilization for conservation and decision making in the South Pacific" - BID-PA2016-0002-REG |
| Study Area Description | Vanuatu |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Principal Investigator
Sampling Methods
The voucher specimens were collected as per the Seagrass Watch protocols http://www.seagrasswatch.org/monitoring.html
| Study Extent | The seagrass specimens were collected opportunistically whenever the VESS team travelled to a project site in Vanuatu with seagrass meadows. |
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Method step description:
- The samples were collected and washed. Then pressed and dried before being mounted
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Vanuatu Seagrasses |
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| Specimen preservation methods | Dried and pressed, Mounted |
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Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Purpose | To create the first collection of seagrasses in Vanuatu |
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| Alternative Identifiers | https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=vess_vanuatu_seagrass |