Atlas of Amphibians and Reptiles of Portugal

This dataset is based on the Atlas of Amphibians and Reptiles of Portugal published by ICNF in 2008. The publication of this document is related to the implementation of the National Strategy for the Conservation of Nature and Biodiversity, whose 5th strategic option concerns development throughout the national territory of specific actions for the conservation of species and habitats, defining as one of the action directives the elaboration of several distribution atlases. The Atlas shows, according to the record of observations made up to the date of its publication, the distribution, in Portugal, of amphibians and reptiles that are autochthonous in the Portuguese territory, and also exotic species existing in the wild: 17 species of amphibians; 30 species of terrestrial reptiles; and 5 species of sea turtles. The original publication presents, for each of the species, a sheet with the characterization of the species and notes on the main threats and measures for its conservation.

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Identification

Alternate Identifier

38cf4018-9fc8-4f6d-b3c5-672fa8bcf705

Publication Date
2021-07-30
Title

Atlas of Amphibians and Reptiles of Portugal

Abstract

This dataset is based on the Atlas of Amphibians and Reptiles of Portugal published by ICNF in 2008. The publication of this document is related to the implementation of the National Strategy for the Conservation of Nature and Biodiversity, whose 5th strategic option concerns development throughout the national territory of specific actions for the conservation of species and habitats, defining as one of the action directives the elaboration of several distribution atlases. The Atlas shows, according to the record of observations made up to the date of its publication, the distribution, in Portugal, of amphibians and reptiles that are autochthonous in the Portuguese territory, and also exotic species existing in the wild: 17 species of amphibians; 30 species of terrestrial reptiles; and 5 species of sea turtles. The original publication presents, for each of the species, a sheet with the characterization of the species and notes on the main threats and measures for its conservation.

Dataset Language

ENGLISH

 
Dataset Creator
Dataset Creator
Dataset Creator
Dataset Creator
  Ce3C, FCUL - Octávio Paulo

Lisboa

,

PORTUGAL

Metadata Provider
Dataset Contact
Dataset Contact
Keywords (GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml)

  • Occurrence

Keywords (NA)

  • atlas

  • reptiles

  • Portugal

  • amphibians

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

Portugal Mainland

Bounding Box

West Bounding Coordinate

-10.02

East Bounding Coordinate

-5.801

North Bounding Coordinate

42.553

South Bounding Coordinate

37.02

Temporal Coverage

Range of Dates

Begin Date
End Date

Taxonomic Coverage

General Taxonomic Coverage

All native amphibians and reptiles in Portuguese territory, and also exotic species existing in the wild: 17 species of amphibians; 30 species of terrestrial reptiles; and 5 species of sea turtles

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name

Kingdom

Taxonomic Rank Value

Animalia

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name

Phylum

Taxonomic Rank Value

Chordata

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name

Class

Taxonomic Rank Value

Amphibia

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name

Class

Taxonomic Rank Value

Reptilia

License Information

Intellectual Rights

This work is licensed under a

Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

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Distribution

Online

URL
https://sig.icnf.pt/portal/home/item.html?id=bc0e458f07f14a1b9c9dca293fa553da
 

Additional Metadata

Metadata

GBIF Metadata Block

Date Stamp

2021-11-29T15:53:12Z

Citation

Loureiro A, Nuno F D A, Carretero M, Paulo O, Figueira R (2021). Atlas of Amphibians and Reptiles of Portugal. ICNF - Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/pgywjd accessed via GBIF.org on 2021-11-29.

Bibliography

Loureiro, A. Ferrand de Almeida,N. Carretero, M.A. e Paulo, O.S. (eds.) (2008) Atlas dos Anfíbios e Répteis de Portugal. 1ª edição, Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e da Biodiversidade, Lisboa, 257 pp.

Logo URL
http://www2.icnf.pt/portal/logo.png
 

Project

• Project

Title

Atlas dos Anfíbios e Répteis de Portugal

Personnel

Individual Name

Given Name

Teresa

Surname

Pimenta

Role

ADMINISTRATIVE_POINT_OF_CONTACT

Abstract

The publication of this document is related to the implementation of the National Strategy for the Conservation of Nature and Biodiversity, whose 5th strategic option relates to the development throughout the national territory of specific actions for the conservation of species and habitats, defining as one of the directives of action the elaboration of several distribution atlases.

This Atlas results from a protocol established by the then ICNB with the CBA - Center for Environmental Biology of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon and with CIBIO - Center for Research in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources of the Univ. from Porto.

Funding

This work was co-fund by ICNF, I.P. and the European Union, through the Environment Operational Programme (application 1.1/00021– Documentos Estruturantes da Conservação da Natureza e da Biodiversidade).



The preparation of this resource for publication through GBIF was supported by Project PORBIOTA—Portuguese E-Infrastructure for Information and Research on Biodiversity (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-022127), under the Operational Thematic Program for Competitiveness and Internationalization (POCI), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) and FCT.

 
 

Methods

• Method

Method Step

Description

Aggregation of original data from several sources (see above) into a purpose specific relational database built for the project. For details, see Loureiro et al (2008)

Method Step

Description

Preparation of the dataset for GBIF publication used as source the geographic layer in shape file format. Although the data layer was a polygon layer with a 10 km grid, the attribute table contained, for the field records, original GPS coordinates with higher precision. In that case, the coordinates with higher spatial precision were considered. The following steps were performed:

- conversion of the spatial layer to geographic coordinates using WGS84 as reference system;

- determine centroids of grid polygons. If the record contains coordinates in the database with higher precision, these were kept;

- determine WKT for the polygons for which centroids were considered;

- export to csv and reinterpret attributes matching to DwC standard terms.

Sampling

Study Extent

The geographic area considered for the original study was Portugal Mainland. The species included are native species of amphibians and reptiles for the country, and exotic species existing in the wild.

Sampling Description

Data collection was based on previous atlas for the region, scientific publications, unpublished field data by the atlas authors and newly collected field data for the atlas project. In the case of newly collected data, coordinates and date are automatically collected from GPS records. All data was inserted in a specific database build for the project.

qualityControl

Description

All initial data was inserted in a specific relational database built specifically for the project, which implemented several quality control methods. In the preparation of the dataset for GBIF publication, data consistency was verified using cluster algorithms using OpenRefine.