Description
The Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program (hereafter referred to as POBSP) of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., conducted an ecological survey in the Central Pacific Ocean, with particular emphasis on the avifauna. As part of this program, a two month field trip to the Marshall and Gilbert Islands was made in October-November of 1964. Later studies were undertaken in June 1966 and in April-May 1967. This dataset presents a summary of all known bird records from the two island groups. Acknowledgement is made to the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the U.S. Military Sea Transport Service, who provided ship transportation for the POBSP field teams. Special acknowledgement for cooperation and assistance is extended. This data was digitised from a report published by the Smithsonian Institute as a pdf found online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/6092
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 18 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
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Myer B, Kaneko K, Asera W (2022): Ornithology of Erikub Atoll in Marshall Islands. v1.2. Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme. Dataset/Checklist. https://ipt.sprep.org/resource?r=ornithology_of_rmi_erikub_atoll&v=1.2
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 3bbb9bf0-e68c-4a5c-a051-7e347585dba6. Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Checklist; Derivedfromoccurrence
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Marshall Islands - Erikub Atoll
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-13.923, -156.094], North East [19.311, 168.047] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
All birds were identified to kingdom, phylum, class, family and species
| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Phylum | Chordata |
| Class | Aves |
Project Data
This data is published as part of a BID funded project being delivered by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme. The project involves 21 participants from 14 Pacific Island Countries and Territories and is designed to increase capacity for data mobilization and use for decision making.
| Title | Strengthening Process for Invasive Species and Biodiversity Data Mobilisation |
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| Identifier | BID-PA2020-004-REG |
| Funding | This work is also funded by the Global Environment Facility (6), through the United Nations Environment Programme. The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme delivers the project titled: Strengthening national and regional capacities to reduce the impact of Invasive Alien Species on globally significant biodiversity in the Pacific |
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Bibliographic Citations
- Amerson, A. Binion, Jr. 1969. "Ornithology of the Marshall and Gilbert Islands." Atoll Research Bulletin. 127:1–348. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00775630.127.1 https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00775630.127.1
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 3bbb9bf0-e68c-4a5c-a051-7e347585dba6 |
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| https://ipt.sprep.org/resource?r=ornithology_of_rmi_erikub_atoll |