UPLB Museum of Natural History DS Rabor Chiroptera Collection

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 1,500 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:

Lumibao J D, Alviola P, Garcia J J (2023): UPLB Museum of Natural History DS Rabor Chiroptera Collection. v1.2. University of the Philippines Los Baños Museum of Natural History. Dataset/Occurrence. https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=rabor_bats&v=1.2

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of the Philippines Los Baños Museum of Natural History. 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: 5f830f8a-c9ff-47cf-b13e-ed9451e9d9f4.  University of the Philippines Los Baños Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

The geographic scope of this data-set covers the entire Philippine Archipelago. However, some localities have changed their jurisdictions in accordance to Philippine Laws.

Taxonomic Coverage

This data set covers the order Chiroptera or the bats, including both old-world fruit bats and microchiropterans.

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

The University of the Philippines Los Baños Natural History holds approximately 3000 specimens of bats from collections all over the Philippines. A chunk of this are historical collections from the expeditions of world-renowned wildlife biologist, Dioscoro Rabor. During the past decade, the museum conducted several expeditions in different regions of the Philippines to collect bats and gather tissue samples, with the aid of our Japanese partners, to detect presence of pathogens on bats. Through this and several expeditions, we were able to add thousands of new records of bats to the collection. We aim to publish the datasets of bats based on these recent collections together with the historical collections of Dr. Rabor. In this project we will standardize the data of our Chiropteran collections and more importantly publish datasets in GBIF.

The personnel involved in the project:

Collection Data

Additional Metadata