Marine macroalgae species from Hispaniola

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 1,633 records.

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Betancourt Fernandez L, Herrera-Moreno A (2022): Marine macroalgae species from Hispaniola. v1.3. Programa EcoMar, Inc.. Dataset/Occurrence. https://cloud.gbif.org/lac/resource?r=proecomar_hispabiota_macroalgae_1&v=1.3

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Programa EcoMar, Inc.. 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: be02c483-3b01-4a78-93d0-9ba41c364828.  Programa EcoMar, Inc. publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Occurrence; macroalgae; Hispaniola; Dominican Republic; Haiti

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

Exclusive Economic Zones of Dominican Republic and Haiti

Taxonomic Coverage

Benthic marine macroalgae species

Benthic marine macroalgae species

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

The project is creating an update database of the benthic marine macroalgae from Hispaniola with a broader coverage of the historical and current literature and a greater presence of national and international museums as a base for the publication of a second inventory.

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

A search and review of taxonomic, biological, ecological, biogeographical or genetic studies in the Atlantic and Caribbean region of benthic macroalgae species for Haiti and the Dominican Republic within the established limits, was carried out. The taxonomic arrangement of the list of species, as well as the updating of scientific names follow the World Registry of Marine Species (WoRMS) and the last revision of benthic marine algae of the tropical and subtropical Western Atlantic (Wynne, 2022). For those records lacking geographic coordinates, but with information on localities and depths, the best practices of georeferencing biological collections were applied to assign coordinates with the support of thematic maps (administrative limits or inland water bodies), topographic sheets, nautical charts and digital bathymetric models, available in the Programa EcoMar GIS database. For coordinates conversion and mapping over the created work map, a combination of tools, was used: Google Earth, Golden Surfer and Mapinfo.

Method step description:

1. 1. Relevant literature identification All taxonomic, biological, ecological, biogeographical or genetic studies in the Atlantic and Caribbean region found in the literature review, with valid reports of macroalgae species for Haiti and the Dominican Republic within the geographic established limits, were included. 2. Secure institutional agreements. When it was necessary, alerts were sent to the institutions of the literature identified as relevant to build the database about Programa EcoMar plan to publish on behalf of them. Only data with positive responses were included. 3. Data capture. Digitalization of all data for occurrences in DwC matrix with a total of 40 fields. 4. Data management Assessment of general dataset quality and use of GBIF data validator services. 5. Data publishing Create a new resource in the GBIF IPT after completing all the sections to publish and register.

Bibliographic Citations

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2. Almodóvar, L. R. and Bonnelly de Calventi, I. (1977). Notas sobre las algas marinas bentónicas macroscópicas de la República Dominicana. In: Conservación y Ecodesarrollo, Centro de Investigaciones de Biología Marina (CIBIMA), Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Editora Alfa y Omega, pp. 379–395.
3. Børgesen, F. (1924). Marine algae. Pp. 13-35. En: Ostenfeld, C. H., Botanical results of the Dana-Expedition, 1. Plants from Beata Island, St. Domingo, collected by C. H. Ostenfeld. Dansk Bot. Arkiv, 3(6): 1-36.
4. Chiappone, M., Geraldes, F.X., Greer, L., Kiene, B., Pugibet, E., Rodriguez, Y., Schmitt, E., Sullivan Sealey, K.M., Swart, P.K., Torres, R.E., Tschirky, J. and Vega, M. (2001). Coral Reef Conservation in Marine Protected Areas: A Case Study of Parque Nacional del Este, Dominican Republic. Editor: Mark Chiappone, The Nature Conservancy, 244 pp.
5. Díaz-Piferrer, M. (1978). Las investigaciones ficológicas en el Caribe. La flora marina de la República Dominicana. Moscosoa 1(2):1-8.
6. Luczkovich, Joseph J., Stoffle, Richard W. and Halmo, David B. (1991). Marine ecology of the Buen Hombre coast. East Carolina University, pp. 93-140. In: Satellite monitoring of coastal marine ecosystems: a case from the Dominican Republic (R. W. Stoffle & D. B. Halmo, eds., University of Michigan, University Center, Michigan, CIESIN).
7. Montero, M., Bonnelly de Calventi, I. and Almodóvar, L. R. (1983). Las algas marinas de la Laguna de Boca Chica, Bahía de San Andrés, Distrito Nacional. Contribuciones del Centro de Investigaciones de Biología Marina (CIBIMA), 3:85-104.
8. Rosenberg, G., León, Y., Sims R. and Clark, C. (1995). Field Notes/Preliminary Report Dominican Republic - Jaragua National Park. Reporte Técnico del Grupo Jaragua, Inc. al Proyecto GEF-PNUD/ONAPLAN: Conservación y Manejo de Biodiversidad de la Zona Costera de la República Dominicana, 14 pp.
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11. Taylor, W.R. (1940). Marine algae of the Smithsonian-Hartford Expedition to the West Indies, 1937. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb., 28:549-562.
12. Taylor, W.R. (1943). Marine algae from Haiti collected by H. H. Bartlett in 1941. Papers Mich. Acad. Sci., Arts and Lett., 28:143-163.
13. Taylor, W.R. and Arndt C.H. (1929). The marine algae of the southeastern peninsula of Hispaniola. Amer. Journ. Bot., 15:651-662.
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