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Ver términos de la licenciaMurguía Romero, Miguel, et al. (2022). Main collectors of Mexico’s vascular plants: a catalogue built from online databases. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad; Vol. 93, 2022. Recuperado de https://repositorio.unam.mx/contenidos/4129078
Autor(es)
Murguía Romero, Miguel; Serrano Estrada, Bernardo; Ortiz, Enrique; Villaseñor, José Luis
Tipo
Artículo de Investigación
Área del conocimiento
Biología y Química
Título
Main collectors of Mexico’s vascular plants: a catalogue built from online databases
Fecha
2022-08-08
Resumen
Databases of biological collections contain fundamental information for the study of biodiversity, hence the importance of their quality, which includes the data on collectors. For this purpose, a list of the main vascular plant collectors in Mexico was constructed to improve the quality of this information. A total of 3.7 million records of vascular plant specimens collected in Mexico were analyzed from the National System of Biodiversity Information (Sistema Nacional de Información sobre Biodiversidad; SNIB) of the Mexican National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad de México; Conabio) and the database of the National Herbarium of Mexico (Herbario Nacional de México; MEXU) of the Institute of Biology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). A “main collector” was considered anyone with 500 or more unique collection numbers in the database. A total of 610 main collectors were identified, who together contributed 83% of the records of vascular plants collected in Mexico, and a standardized list of their names is presented. The list of names of main collectors of vascular plants in Mexico is a useful tool for the cleaning and extraction of information from biodiversity databases.
Tema
Biological collections; biodiversity informatics; collecting effort; data cleaning ; floristics
Idioma
eng
ISSN
ISSN electrónico: 2007-8706; ISSN impreso: 1870-3453
