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miniSASS: Citizen Science Stream Assessment for Water Quality Monitoring
Simplified stream assessment scoring system designed for community participation in water quality monitoring. The mobile app incorporates AI-assisted macroinvertebrate... -
SAEON Open Data Platform - South African Environmental Observation Network
South Africa's long-term environmental observation data repository operated by the National Research Foundation. Supports multiple metadata standards, integrates with GEOSS, and... -
GBIF Issues and Flags Documentation
Comprehensive guide to GBIF's 50+ data quality flags applied during data ingestion. Explains taxonomic, spatial, and temporal flags, their severity levels, and how to interpret... -
rgbif: Interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API
Official rOpenSci R package for programmatic access to GBIF data. Enables reproducible data download, taxonomic name resolution, and occurrence data retrieval. The primary tool... -
The FAIR Guiding Principles for Scientific Data Management (Wilkinson et al. 2016)
Landmark publication in Scientific Data defining the FAIR principles: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable. Over 10,000 citations. The foundational framework for modern... -
CoordinateCleaner: Automated Cleaning of Occurrence Records
rOpenSci R package for automated flagging of common spatial errors in biological collection data. Detects zero coordinates, coordinate-country mismatches, centroid assignments,... -
bdc: A Toolkit for Standardizing, Integrating and Cleaning Biodiversity Data
Peer-reviewed R package (Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2022) providing five integrated modules for biodiversity data cleaning: dataset merging, pre-filtering, taxonomic... -
GBIF Data Processing Pipeline Documentation
Official documentation of GBIF's data ingestion and processing pipeline. Describes how occurrence data is interpreted, indexed, and quality-flagged through automated validation,... -
Principles and Methods of Data Cleaning (Chapman 2005)
Comprehensive GBIF publication on data cleaning methods for primary species and occurrence data. Covers taxonomic, geographic, and temporal data cleaning approaches from... -
Principles of Data Quality (Chapman 2005)
Foundational GBIF publication on data quality concepts for primary species occurrence data. Covers accuracy, precision, completeness, consistency, and timeliness dimensions.... -
GBIF Freshwater Data Publishing Guide
Comprehensive guide produced by GBIF (authors: Lento & Schmidt-Kloiber) specifically for publishing freshwater biodiversity data to the GBIF network. Covers the unique... -
Aquatic Invertebrates of South African Rivers: Field Guide
The standard pictorial identification guide used for SASS5 (South African Scoring System) macroinvertebrate assessment. Provides family-level identification keys with colour... -
Guides to the Freshwater Invertebrates of Southern Africa
Comprehensive multi-volume series providing genus- and species-level identification keys for freshwater invertebrates of southern Africa. Covers all major groups including... -
A Practical Guide to the Design and Implementation of Freshwater...
A comprehensive practical guide for designing and implementing long-term freshwater biomonitoring programmes. Covers programme objectives, indicator selection, site network... -
An Illustrated Guide to Some Common Diatom Species from South Africa
The standard reference for diatom identification in South African freshwater biomonitoring. Covers the most common diatom species found in rivers and streams with detailed light... -
Brisbane Declaration on Environmental Flows (2007)
International consensus statement on the critical importance of environmental flows for sustaining freshwater ecosystems and the human livelihoods that depend on them. Issued at... -
30x30 Conservation Targets for Inland Waters
Analysis of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework Target 3 ('30x30') as it applies to freshwater and inland water ecosystems. Target 3 commits to conserving 30% of... -
South Africa National Biodiversity Assessment (NBA) Series
South Africa's flagship assessment of the state of biodiversity and ecosystems, produced approximately every five years by SANBI in collaboration with numerous research... -
South Africa National Freshwater Ecosystem Priority Areas (NFEPA, 2011)
The first systematic biodiversity plan for freshwater ecosystems in South Africa, published in 2011 as a collaborative effort between CSIR, SANBI, WRC, DWS, and other partners....