Description
This dataset includes Amphibian occurrence records from Switzerland and adjacent areas. Data sources are literature, museum collections and field observations. The latter and most important resource is provided by a large network of volunteer collaborators, regional representatives of the Swiss Coordination Office for Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (https://www.infofauna.ch/de/beratungsstellen/amphibien-karch) as well as environmental impact studies, national and regional inventories, monitoring, field work for Red Lists and academic work. The period covered by the data extends from 1820 to the present day. All data provided have been subject to a validation procedure.
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 445,840 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 Swiss National Biodiversity Data and Information Centres – infospecies.ch. 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: e6d98b01-d4bf-4afc-89db-29dffdbd4d5b. Swiss National Biodiversity Data and Information Centres – infospecies.ch publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Switzerland.
Keywords
Occurrence; Occurrence
Contacts
- Originator
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4023-1001
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Originator
Geographic Coverage
Switzerland and adjacent areas
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [45.818, 5.956], North East [47.808, 10.492] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Amphibia
| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Phylum | Chordata |
| Class | Amphibia |
| Order | Urodela, Anura |
| Family | Bombinatoridae, Ranidae, Alytidae, Salamandridae, Bufonidae, Hylidae |
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | e6d98b01-d4bf-4afc-89db-29dffdbd4d5b |
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| https://ipt.gbif.ch/resource?r=karch-amph |