Description
Changes in the urban biodiversity can sometimes serve as vital signs of environmental change. Urban naturalists need not take pleasure in visiting just remote forests and wetlands, but monitor urban wildlife around them and strive to conserve it. 'Pune Alive - a directory of Pune biodiversity' is Research and Action in Natural Wealth Administration (RANWA)'s latest initiative to monitor urban wildlife by recording the existing wealth and strive to conserve it. Ants deserve a special place in the study of ecology, including behaviour; given their species richness, social habits and high densities contributing much of the animal biomass on the earth. We tried to explore their distribution across a variety of habitat types around Pune city. This data set is from the 'Pune Alive - a directory of Pune biodiversity' in which documented occurrence records of 13 genera belonging to 4 sub-families of ants from Pune, Maharashtra, India.
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 43 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:
Pachpor T, Ghodake Y, Jadhav Kulkarni N, Barve V (2023). Pune Alive : Ant Diversity 2000. Version 1.7. Research and Action in Natural Wealth Administration (RANWA). Occurrence dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=pa_ants_1&v=1.7
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Research and Action in Natural Wealth Administration (RANWA). 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: 4c64aed2-a67b-433b-b3b6-0876908bcde4. Research and Action in Natural Wealth Administration (RANWA) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Ants; Pune; Formicidae; Maharashtra; India; Occurrence; Observation
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Geographic Coverage
This data set includes occurrence records compiled within 10 kms of the center of Pune city, India.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [18.505, 73.765], North East [18.565, 73.869] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
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| Family | Formicidae (Ants) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2000-03-15 / 2000-08-31 |
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Sampling Methods
Specimens were sampled and preserved at Abasaheb Garware College, Pune, India.
| Study Extent | Ant samples were collected from 10 kms within the center of Pune city, India during summer and early monsoon of the year 2000. |
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Method step description:
- Sampling included 2 hour morning search for ants during summer and early monsoon periods in the forests, scrub, grasslands and agriculture and human habitations. Few individuals from each trail or congregation of apparent recognizable taxonomic units (RTU) were collected and preserved at the Abasaheb Garware College, Pune, India, with notes of their locality, habitat and relative visual abundance.
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| Alternative Identifiers | 4c64aed2-a67b-433b-b3b6-0876908bcde4 |
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| https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=pa_ants_1 |