Aarhus University Palm Transect Database

Occurrence
Latest version published by Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University on Dec 20, 2016 Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University
Publication date:
20 December 2016
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Data from 500 x 5m palm transects in tropical American forests recording all palm individuals and assigning them to growthclasses from seedlings to adults. All palm records are geo-referenced to one 5 x 5m subunit of a transect. Additional ecological data are recorded to suppport the data.

Data Records

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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University. 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: a9e763c8-f674-4492-94a8-4fd4eb9342a5.  Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by DanBIF - Danish Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation

Contacts

Henrik Balslev
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Professor
Aarhus University
Ny Munkegade 114
8000 Aarhus C
Danmark
DK
+45 871 56568

Geographic Coverage

Tropical America

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

Arecaceae

Family Arecaceae (The palm family)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1995-01-01 / 2012-01-01

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers a9e763c8-f674-4492-94a8-4fd4eb9342a5
http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/14087
http://danbif.au.dk/ipt/resource?r=palmtranse