Description
This data is derived from the archive of Prof. Reinhold Tüxen at the Leibniz University Hannover, which contains around 45,000 offprints, newspaper articles, correspondence, maps and numerous unpublished plant and vegetation data from Lower Saxony and Northern Germany and is of crucial importance for assessing long-term effects on biodiversity. This collection, managed at the Institute of Geobotany, is particularly valuable for the analysis of historical species occurrences and their reactions to global changes.
Data Records
The data in this sampling event 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 533 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
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:
Vyas A, Vogt L, Kudenko D, Grobe P (2024). publicationTitle. Version 1.0. Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB). Occurrence dataset. https://biocase.zfmk.de/ipt/resource?r=test&v=1.0
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB). 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: d760039d-d1f3-4bc6-af0f-8addd65cd275. Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Germany.
Keywords
Occurrence; Observation
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
This includes the extensive collection of occurrences from the estate of the German botanist and plant sociologist Reinhold Tüxen. This includes around 100,000 printed articles with millions of data points on plant distribution, mainly from Lower Saxony and neighboring areas.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1920-01-01 / 1960-12-31 |
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Project Data
Almost a million plant and animal species are threatened with extinction - estimates the World Biodiversity Council. However, precise statistics are lacking, which is why the situation could be even worse. The aim of the "Digispezies" project is to improve the data basis by evaluating articles in scientific journals. The Institute of Geobotany at LUH houses one of the world's largest historical collections of species occurrences since the 19th century. This includes the extensive collection of occurrence records from the estate of the German botanist and plant sociologist Reinhold Tüxen. This includes around 100,000 printed articles with millions of data points on plant distribution, mainly from Lower Saxony and neighboring areas. The project team wants to digitize such scientific articles and extract tables that document the occurrence of plant species in different places and at different times. These data sets can then be combined with other data sets, for example those provided by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation on the distribution of species. Extracting and interpreting the diversity of tables contained in such articles is a major challenge. In addition, the geobotanical vocabulary, which has changed over the years, will be compared. The extracted data will be made available as knowledge graphs for further research. The project thus aims to make an important contribution to the preservation of biodiversity in Lower Saxony and Germany.
| Title | Digispecies: Digitization of plant and animal species occurrence records for documenting the extent of biodiversity loss |
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| Identifier | Digispecies |
The personnel involved in the project:
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 871f47a5-2d22-453e-896d-e54e47269cd9 |
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| https://biocase.zfmk.de/ipt/resource?r=digispecies_event_9506 |