Description
A "nanai" campaign was run on the month of September of 2017, increasing awareness about our unique and endemic cicada, Raiateana knowlesi; a species that is known to emerge once every 8 years. This species is known from only a handful of locations within the Namosi and Navosa Province. A competition was developed through the NatureFiji-MareqetiViti (NFMV) campaign and website to help collect any additional information of emergence from the public with the hopes that we could confirm original distributional information as well as include any possible new credible information of their distribution/emergence. The competition required that certain information was recorded and that a picture was uploaded to help confirm the species and presence.
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 15 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.
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Tikoca S, Moko N, Naivalu S, (2018): Observation of Raiateana knowlesi emergences in September 2017. v1. NatureFiji-MareqetiViti. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.sprep.org/resource?r=nanaiemergence_humanobservations_2017&v=1.0
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is NatureFiji-MareqetiViti. 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: d91b392e-bb9d-4fb2-99d8-6053e1ade94f. NatureFiji-MareqetiViti publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme.
Keywords
Occurrence; Observation
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Fiji wide.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-20.077, -177.825], North East [-15.623, 175.957] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Fijian endemic cicada that emerges once every eight years.
| Species | Raiateana knowlesi (Fijian cicada) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2017-09-01 / 2017-11-01 |
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Project Data
A "nanai" campaign was run on the month of September of 2017 increasing awareness about our unique and endemic cicada; Raiateana knowlesi, that emerges once every 8 years. This species is known from only a handful of locations within the Namosi and Navosa Province. A competition was developed through the NatureFiji-MareqetiViti (NFMV) website to help collect additional information of emergence from the public with the hopes that we could confirm original distributional information as well as include any new credible information of their distribution/emergence. The competition required that certain information was recorded and that a picture was uploaded to help confirm the species and presence.
| Title | Observations of the emergence of Fijian cicadas in September 2017 |
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| Funding | The project was supported with funds from NatureFiji-MareqetiViti members and donations from Mr. John Burns. |
| Study Area Description | Fiji wide |
| Design Description | A competition was developed through the NatureFiji-MareqetiViti (NFMV) website to help collect additional information of emergence from the public with the hopes that we could confirm original distributional information as well as include any new credible information of their distribution/emergence. The competition required that certain information was recorded and that a picture was uploaded to help confirm the species and presence. |
The personnel involved in the project:
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Sampling Methods
A competition was developed through the NatureFiji-MareqetiViti (NFMV) website to help collect additional information of emergence from the public with the hopes that we could confirm original distributional information as well as include any new credible information of their distribution/emergence. The competition required that certain information was recorded and that a picture was uploaded to help confirm the species and presence.
| Study Extent | Fiji wide. |
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| Quality Control | Pictures were uploaded in order for verification of the species in question. |
Method step description:
- A competition was developed through the NatureFiji-MareqetiViti (NFMV) website to help collect additional information of emergence from the public with the hopes that we could confirm original distributional information as well as include any new credible information of their distribution/emergence. The competition required that certain information was recorded and that a picture was uploaded to help confirm the species and presence.
Additional Metadata
Link to the legend of the "nanai": https://naturefiji.org/legend-of-the-nanai/ Chris Simon: http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/projects/cicada/simon_lab/member_pages/c_simon.php link to description of the species R. knowlesi; https://books.google.com.fj/books?id=kswUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=raiateana+knowlesi&source=bl&ots=0BSGFrH5vi&sig=OZPDlWhDEKtVFUZZqBn-S5UB6us&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiXu4SOwOnbAhXCT7wKHepgCNMQ6AEIUzAL#v=onepage&q=raiateana%20knowlesi&f=false NatureFiji-MareqetiViti link: https://naturefiji.org/
| Alternative Identifiers | d91b392e-bb9d-4fb2-99d8-6053e1ade94f |
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| https://ipt.sprep.org/resource?r=nanaiemergence_humanobservations_2017 |