Odonata Central

John Abbott1

1 The University of Alabama, 

Corresponding author(s): John Abbott (jabbott1@ua.edu)

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Abstract

This citizen science web site is focused on expanding our understanding of the distribution, biogeography, biodiversity, and identification of Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) in the Western Hemisphere.  Citizen scientists are encouraged to contribute their Odonata observations to the database using a web-based interface for submission.  These observations may be human observation only or may be vouchered by photographs or specimens.  An expert team of vetters reviews records of the rarer species and either accepts or declines the record based on the documentation.  Declined records are not uploaded to GBIF.  Odonata Central was started in 2003 but older records are accepted into the database.

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Occurrence

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=odonata_central

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Odonata Central
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/archive.do?r=odonata_central
Publication date of data: 2023-12-03
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2020-12-24
Hierarchy level: Dataset