37 datasets found

Simplified stream assessment scoring system designed for community participation in water quality monitoring. The mobile app incorporates AI-assisted macroinvertebrate...

South Africa's long-term environmental observation data repository operated by the National Research Foundation. Supports multiple metadata standards, integrates with GEOSS, and...

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...

Official rOpenSci R package for programmatic access to GBIF data. Enables reproducible data download, taxonomic name resolution, and occurrence data retrieval. The primary tool...

Landmark publication in Scientific Data defining the FAIR principles: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable. Over 10,000 citations. The foundational framework for modern...

rOpenSci R package for automated flagging of common spatial errors in biological collection data. Detects zero coordinates, coordinate-country mismatches, centroid assignments,...

Peer-reviewed R package (Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2022) providing five integrated modules for biodiversity data cleaning: dataset merging, pre-filtering, taxonomic...

Official documentation of GBIF's data ingestion and processing pipeline. Describes how occurrence data is interpreted, indexed, and quality-flagged through automated validation,...

Comprehensive GBIF publication on data cleaning methods for primary species and occurrence data. Covers taxonomic, geographic, and temporal data cleaning approaches from...

Foundational GBIF publication on data quality concepts for primary species occurrence data. Covers accuracy, precision, completeness, consistency, and timeliness dimensions....

The foundational paper establishing DNA barcoding as a practical method for species identification. Proposes using a standardised short genetic marker (cytochrome c oxidase...

Compilation of Mozambique's key environmental and biodiversity laws relevant to freshwater conservation. Lei do Ambiente (Law 20/1997): framework environmental law establishing...

The landmark global biodiversity agreement adopted at COP15 of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal, Canada, on 19 December 2022. Succeeds the Aichi Biodiversity...

This annual report, from October 2015 to September 2016, marks the transition in our action-research to practice where, based on findings from Phase I, activities that focus on...

Authors: Alan Gardiner A partial overview of biodiversity-related literature for the Olifants catchment including South Africa and Mozambique.

Authors: Deborah Vromans A full report on the inclusion of environmental and biodiversity issues municipal planning instruments for the Olifants catchment.

Authors: Deborah Vromans A methodology for analysing municipal planning instruments for the inclusion of environmental and biodiversity issues is presented.

Authors: Karen Kotschy & Derick du Toit This report provides an overview of the assessment of how well municipalities in the Olifants are integrating biodiversity and...

Authors: Karen Kotschy with Sarah Findlay & Chris Williams In this case report, we look at how land restitution, poverty and biodiversity conservation might be reconciled...

Authors: Karen Kotschy, Sarah Findlay & Chris Williams Since the dawn of democracy in 1994 the South African government has struggled to reconcile the issue of land...