Description
The dataset contains occurrence data of 36 species and 29 morphospecies of spiders (Araneae) and 41 species and 22 morphospecies of ants (Formicidae) collected from ten sampling points in northern Ghana during Oct-Nov 2022. The total sample size is 288 samples of spiders with 438 mature individuals and 782 samples of ants with 7859 individuals. The dataset contains collection information (locality, habitat, collecting method, time, coordinates, collectors, etc.) and sample information (collection code, count, sex, remarks, etc.). This work was part of the project SustInAfrica and funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement 861924.
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 1,070 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
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Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Finnish Museum of Natural History. 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: 4aa4c187-9753-48a9-895b-14a649727364. Finnish Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Finland.
Keywords
Occurrence
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Northern region
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [9.305, -1.079], North East [9.693, -0.534] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2022-10-06 / 2022-11-14 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | SustInAfirca |
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| Funding | EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme Grant Agreement 861924 |
The personnel involved in the project:
Sampling Methods
Plot sizes and trap numbers varied so that in the Forest Reserve four 50x50m plots were sampled with 48 pitfall traps and one Malaise trap in each, while in the Kumbungu mango orchard five approximately 30x30m plots were sampled with 32 pitfall traps and four Malaise traps in each, and in the Dallung mango orchard a small 10x10m subplot was trapped with eight pitfall traps and one Malaise trap.
| Study Extent | Pitfall and Malaise trapping was preformed in October-November 2022 in Sinsablegbinni Forest Reserve and mango orchards in villages of Kumbungu and Dallung, northern Ghana. |
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Method step description:
- After the trapping, the material was stored in 96% ethanol and shipped to Helsinki, Finland, where the focal taxa were sorted and identified to species or morphospecies level. A maximum of ten individuals of each (morpho)species were collected, labelled, measured and stored in the collections of the Finnish Museum of Natural History (Luomus), while the rest of the material was sent back to the country of origin for further inspection. The abbreviations used for morphological measurements in dynamicProperties are from https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Morphological_Measurements.
Additional Metadata
Associated specimen records can be found in https://www.gbif.org/dataset/3c40bd29-eb8e-4a0d-93c5-3cb1b7204a4f and https://www.gbif.org/dataset/afc5826a-b29b-4edb-9618-11c24df5fa83
| Alternative Identifiers | 4aa4c187-9753-48a9-895b-14a649727364 |
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| https://ipt.laji.fi/resource?r=osang |