Description
Insect specimen collection records at the South Pacific Regional Herbarium (SPRH) and Biodiversity Centre are detailed in this dataset. Collections occurred during biodiversity surveys, protected area monitoring, research sampling, and biodiversity rapid assessments.
All specimens are curated and maintained at the SPRH and Biodiversity Centre at The University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji.
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 8,811 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.
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: 5d289c3a-7552-44ec-8137-0721974bbf9a. South Pacific Regional Herbarium publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by VertNet.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3781-8928
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Geographic Coverage
All locations are from the islands of Fiji.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-19.891, 176.484], North East [-15.792, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
This dataset contains specimen records from the Class Insecta, comprising the four Orders below.
| Order | Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera |
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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 |
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| 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), and the British Academy funded Youth Futures project "(Re)Defining Culture: Engaging urban Fijian youth in sustainable employment opportunities in the cultural heritage sector (YF\190078). |
| Study Area Description | The Fiji Islands |
| Design Description | Data mobilisation was supported by the BID Pacific project "Mobilizing biodiversity data from natural history collections in Fiji" (BID-PA-2020-006-NAC) |
The personnel involved in the project:
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 5d289c3a-7552-44ec-8137-0721974bbf9a |
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| https://ipt.sprep.org/resource?r=suva_entomology |