Bryophytes of the Fiji Islands

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Description

This dataset consists of occurrence records of moss and liverwort specimens housed at the South Pacific Regional Herbarium (SUVA), in Suva, Fiji. They are duplicate specimens collected mainly by visiting bryologists, Dr. Allan Fife, Dr. Matt Renner, and Dr. D. H. Norris on separate collecting events. Their field work was supported by local expertise from the South Pacific Regional Herbarium, the Ministry of Forestry, and local field guides.

Specimen collections were done on various localities on the islands of Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Kadavu, and Taveuni, from coastal vegetation to cloud forests, in an effort to document and improve scientific knowledge of bryophyte diversity in Fiji.

Data mobilization is supported by the BID Pacific project "Mobilizing biodiversity data from natural history collections in Fiji" (BID-PA-2020-006-NAC).

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 586 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:

Tabua M (2023). Bryophytes of the Fiji Islands. Version 1.2. South Pacific Regional Herbarium. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.sprep.org/resource?r=suva_bryo&v=1.2

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is South Pacific Regional Herbarium. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: d7aa30e1-de36-4b10-9ba8-1c41c7304dca. South Pacific Regional Herbarium publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by VertNet.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Mereia Tabua

Metadata Provider ●
Originator ●
Point Of Contact

Bryophyte Specialist

South Pacific Regional Herbarium

The University of the South Pacific

Suva

FJ

[email protected]

https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=mereia-tabua-a62935126

Kelly Brown

User

[email protected]

Geographic Coverage

The Fiji islands.

Bounding Coordinates	South West [-19.477, 175.869], North East [-15.199, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

Records from the Class Anthocerotopsida, Bryopsida and Jungermanniopsida.

Class	Anthocerotopsida, Bryopsida, Jungermanniopsida

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date	1974-01-01 / 2011-12-31

Project Data

The main objective of our project is to mobilize natural history collection data housed in both government and non-government institutions in Fiji. These include collections held at the South Pacific Regional Herbarium and the Discipline of Marine Studies, both located at the University of the South Pacific and the Fijian Ministries of Forestry and Agriculture.

Title	Mobilizing biodiversity data from natural history collections in Fiji
Identifier	BID-PA2020-006-NAC
Funding	Data mobilisation was supported by the BID Pacific project "Mobilizing biodiversity data from natural history collections in Fiji" (BID-PA-2020-006-NAC)
Study Area Description	The Fiji Islands