Datasets
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baseflow_inwards.png (Module 1 Freshwater Biodiversity / The Hydrological...
Submitted by: Hugo (Researcher), AWARD Email: hugo@award.org.za Module: Module 1 Freshwater Biodiversity Sub-Module: 1.1 Freshwater Ecosystems Topic: The Hydrological Cycle and... -
Screenshot 2026-02-08 081146.png (Module 5 Transboundary Collaboration /...
Submitted by: Hugo Retief (Researcher), AWARD Email: hugo@award.org.za Module: Module 5 Transboundary Collaboration Sub-Module: 5.1 Cross-border Water Governance Topic:... -
Screenshot 2026-02-08 081146.png (Module 4 Data Management / Preparing Data...
Submitted by: Hugo Retief (Researcher), AWARD Email: hugo@award.org.za Module: Module 4 Data Management Sub-Module: 4.4 Open Data Licensing Topic: Preparing Data for Publication... -
Picture1.jpg (Module 3 Aquatic Biomonitoring / General)
Submitted by: Hugo Retief (Researcher), AWARD Email: hugo@award.org.za Module: Module 3 Aquatic Biomonitoring Sub-Module: 3.4 Water Quality Topic: General Date: 2026-02-08... -
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.... -
Baseflow graph from INWARDS
Graph of INWARDs -
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... -
SANBI-GBIF Node — South African Biodiversity Information Facility
Portal for South Africa's GBIF Voting Node, operated by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) through the South African Biodiversity Information Facility... -
OpenRefine for Biodiversity Data Cleaning (GBIF Course Materials)
GBIF's curated training resources for using OpenRefine to clean and transform biodiversity data before publishing. OpenRefine is a free, open-source tool that works locally (no... -
Georeferencing Best Practices (Chapman & Wieczorek 2020)
Comprehensive GBIF Secretariat publication providing best practices for georeferencing biological occurrence data. Covers theoretical foundations of georeferencing, the point-... -
Darwin Core Archives — How-to Guide
GBIF's comprehensive guide to understanding and creating Darwin Core Archives (DwC-A), the standard exchange format for biodiversity data. Explains the star schema architecture:... -
Ecological Metadata Language (EML) Specification
Official specification for the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) version 2.2.0, a comprehensive XML vocabulary designed specifically for documenting ecological and... -
GBIF Data Quality Requirements and Documentation
Official GBIF documentation on data quality requirements for publishing occurrence, checklist, and sampling-event datasets. Describes over 50 automated data quality flags that... -
GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) User Manual
Official manual for the GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT), the free, open-source Java application used to publish biodiversity datasets to the GBIF network. Covers... -
Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity Data Standard...
Foundational peer-reviewed paper describing the Darwin Core standard's history, design principles, community governance model, and practical applications. Traces DwC's evolution... -
Darwin Core Quick Reference Guide
Official TDWG quick reference for all currently recommended Darwin Core terms. Lists each term with its identifier (URI), label, definition, comments, and examples, organised by... -
Global Assessment of Hydrologic Alteration (Grill et al. 2019)
Global-scale assessment mapping the degree of flow regulation and hydrological alteration across 12 million river kilometres worldwide. Published in Nature, this study found... -
Pairwise IHA Analysis: Python Toolkit for Assessing Reservoir Impacts
Python-based tool for pairwise upstream-downstream IHA analysis at reservoirs and dams. Enables comparison of flow regime characteristics above and below impoundments to... -
IHA R Package: Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration Implementation
Open-source R package implementing the full Indicators of Hydrological Alteration (IHA) methodology for reproducible, scriptable analysis. Provides functions for calculating all... -
Ecological Reserve Determination and Compliance Monitoring: Crocodile River Catchment
Reserve determination and compliance assessment for the Crocodile (West) River using IHA-based flow analysis. Documents recommended ecological flows based on the Building Block... -
Understanding Hydrological Processes at Ungauged Points in the Incomati...
Application of the IHA methodology to 33 gauging stations across the Incomati (Inkomati) River Basin in South Africa. Analyses streamflow variability and identifies... -
The Ecological Limits of Hydrologic Alteration (ELOHA): A New Framework...
Framework for developing regional environmental flow standards that scales the IHA approach from individual sites to entire regions. ELOHA consists of four steps: (1)... -
The Natural Flow Regime: A Paradigm for River Conservation and Restoration...
Landmark paper establishing the natural flow regime as the central paradigm for river conservation and restoration. Identifies five critical components of flow regime —... -
How Much Water Does a River Need? The Range of Variability Approach (Richter...
Key companion paper to the 1996 IHA methodology introducing the Range of Variability Approach (RVA) for setting streamflow-based river ecosystem management targets. Defines a... -
A Method for Assessing Hydrological Alteration within Ecosystems (Richter et...
Foundational scientific paper introducing the Indicators of Hydrological Alteration (IHA) methodology. Presents 32 hydrological parameters (later expanded to 33) organised in 5... -
IHA Software Version 7.1: User's Guide
The Nature Conservancy's Indicators of Hydrological Alteration (IHA) software manual, version 7.1. Provides comprehensive guidance on using the free IHA software for calculating... -
GRDC: Global Runoff Data Centre
The Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC), operated by the German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG) under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), maintains... -
Environmental Profile of the Inkomati River Basin
Comprehensive environmental profile of the Inkomati (Incomati) River Basin covering hydrology, water resources, biodiversity, land use, and environmental challenges. Produced... -
CHIRPS: Climate Hazards InfraRed Precipitation with Station Data
CHIRPS is a quasi-global rainfall dataset spanning from 1981 to the present, covering 50°S to 50°N at 0.05° (~5 km) spatial resolution. Produced by the Climate Hazards Center at... -
HydroATLAS: Global Hydro-Environmental Sub-Basin & River Reach Data
HydroATLAS is a global compendium of hydro-environmental attributes for all sub-basins and river reaches worldwide, providing 56 hydro-environmental variables organised in 281... -
SASS5 Rapid Bioassessment Method for Rivers
The South African Scoring System version 5 (SASS5) is the standardised national protocol for rapid biological assessment of river health using aquatic macroinvertebrates as... -
Water Resources of South Africa 2012 Study (WR2012)
The most comprehensive water resources assessment for South Africa, commissioned by the Water Research Commission (WRC). WR2012 covers 1,995 quaternary catchments with patched... -
River EcoClassification Manual for EcoStatus Determination
The DWS River EcoClassification system provides a standardised framework for determining the Present Ecological State (PES) and Ecological Importance & Sensitivity (EIS) of... -
Building Block Methodology (BBM) for Environmental Flow Assessment
The Building Block Methodology is a holistic environmental flow assessment method developed in South Africa that decomposes the natural flow regime into ecologically meaningful... -
SA Water Quality Guidelines Vol 7: Aquatic Ecosystems
The Department of Water and Sanitation's water quality guidelines for aquatic ecosystems, published as Volume 7 of the South African Water Quality Guidelines series. Establishes... -
DWS Hydrological Services & National Gauging Station Network
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) Hydrology directorate operates approximately 3,000 flow gauging stations across South Africa. Provides daily discharge data, water... -
eBioNet Course 1 Brochure — Getting Started with eBioNet (EN/PT, Dec 2025)
Promotional brochure for the first eBioNet online course "Getting Started with eBioNet". Available in English and Portuguese. Covers course overview, learning objectives, target... -
TBLN Meeting 1 Report — Maputo, Mozambique (May 2025)
Report from the first meeting of the Transboundary Learning Network (TBLN), held in Maputo, Mozambique in May 2025. Documents discussions on transboundary freshwater... -
Mozambican Biodiversity Data Collection Report (December 2025)
Findings from freshwater biodiversity data collection expeditions in the Mozambican portion of the Incomati River basin. Documents species records collected, sampling sites,... -
FISHTRAC Installation Status Report — Mozambique (December 2025)
Technical report on the deployment of FISHTRAC receiver stations and smart tags in the Mozambican section of the Incomati River basin. Covers site selection, installation... -
BIO-SMART Phase 2 — Progress Report 1 (June 2025)
First six-monthly progress report for BIO-SMART Phase 2, covering the period January–June 2025. Reports on initial eBioNet platform development, the first Transboundary Learning...