Description
All known field based records of insectivores in Georgia (including own unpublished data) accumulated as of 2022 are collected in one dataset for the first time. About 28.4% of records had been retrieved from publications in Russian and Georgian languages, and 47% of the dataset records are retrieved from collections.
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 883 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.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Kandaurov A, Bukhnikashvili A, Sheklashvili G, Natradze I, Mumladze L (2023). The insectivores of Georgia. Version 1.3. Institute of Zoology, Ilia State University. Occurrence dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/resource?r=geo_invo&v=1.3
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Institute of Zoology, Ilia State University. 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: 4eb9162e-6336-4fc8-abc6-0948270d2387. Institute of Zoology, Ilia State University publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Occurrence; insectivore; Southh Caucasus; Georgia; distribution; Observation
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Researcher
- cholokashvili 3/5
- Metadata Provider
- Reasearcher
- cholokashvili 3/5
- +995 577754457
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator
- Researcher
- cholokashvili 3/5
- Metadata Provider
- cholokashvili 3/5
- +995 599554240
- User
- Director of the Institute of Zoology
- cholokashvili 3/5
- +995 577149076
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2172-6973
- Metadata Provider
- Researcher
- cholokashvili 3/5
- +995 577754457
- Metadata Provider
- Researcher
- cholokashvili 3/5
Geographic Coverage
The dataset originated from the whole Georgian territory. Georgia covering an area of 69,500 square km, is located on the southern slopes of the Great Caucasus Mountain Range, Lesser Caucasus mountains on the isthmus between the Black and Caspian Seas. It contains lowlands between the abovementioned mountain ranges which include the Colchis lowland in the west (along the Black Sea Coast) and the Kura river lowland in the east. The land of Georgia covers an elevation range from sea level to approximately 5,184 meters at Mount Shkhara. Two-thirds of the country is mountainous with an average height of 1200 meters above sea level.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [40.614, 39.463], North East [44.056, 47.197] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Data represents the insectivore taxa identified at species level from the orders Soricomorpha and Erinaceomorpha
| Order | Soricomorpha (Insectivore), Erinaceomorpha (Insectivore) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1864-01-01 / 2022-12-31 |
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Sampling Methods
Literture search, Trapping
| Study Extent | Georgia |
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| Quality Control | Georefernecing using Google Earth Pro v7.3.6.9345 and GPS |
Method step description:
- Literature Search Field sampling
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 4eb9162e-6336-4fc8-abc6-0948270d2387 |
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| https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/resource?r=geo_invo |