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GLOBALBIODIVERSITY INFORMATION FACILITY

Biodiversity and uses of biodiversity data: Example: Bird Atlas of the Comoro

IslandsGarin Cael

Biodiversity Informatics and Cybertaxonomy unit

Royal Museum for Central Africa(Tervuren, Belgium)

Photo: Claire Spottiswoode

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Atlas of the breeding birds of Grand Comoro, Mohéli and

Anjouan

Atlas of the breeding birds of Grand Comoro, Mohéli and

AnjouanLouette M., H. Abdérémane, Y. Ibrahim & D. Meirte, assisted by G. Cael, H. Doulton, C. Marsh, B. Meganck & D. Monticelli. 2008.

Atlas des oiseaux nicheurs de la Grande Comore, de Mohéli et d’Anjouan.

Studies in Afrotropical Zoology, Tervuren, Belgium N° 294. 240 pp.

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Sources of the dataSources of the data

Observational data

RMCA expeditions Non-RMCA Expeditions Publications

Mainly targeted bird counts, sometimes

with specimens

Bird counts and loose observations

Mainly loose observations

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DifficultiesDifficulties More than 20.000 observations, but

they suffer from the typical flaws of museum data: Not gathered for this specific purpose Incomplete Errors In most cases no coordinates

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Columba polleni - Comoro PigeonColumba polleni - Comoro Pigeon

rainfall

altitude

forests

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roads

buildings

Coturnix coturnix : open spaces at high altitudes

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Humblotia flavirostris - Humblot’s Flycatcher

Humblotia flavirostris - Humblot’s Flycatcher

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Number of species observedNumber of species observed

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Number of species calculatedNumber of species calculated

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Number of endemic taxa observed

Number of endemic taxa observed

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Number of endemic taxa calculated

Number of endemic taxa calculated

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Endemicity (taxon level)Endemicity (taxon level)

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AcknowledgementsAcknowledgementsThis presentation was partly based on

the following presentations:

An Atlas of breeding birds of the Union des Comores by Michel Louette, Danny Meirte, Garin Cael, Bart Meganck & Patricia Mergen

An atlas of the breeding birds of the Comoro Islands by Bart Meganck

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Thanks for your attention!