National Biodiversity Data Bank. Observation records, 1900-2014
Latest version published by National Biodiversity Data Bank on Mar 14, 2026
The data in this resource consist of biodiversity occurrence records drawn from the National Biodiversity Data Bank's database. The data was clipped using the Albertine Rift boundaries and mapped to Darwin Core terms by the NBDB's manager, Dr Herbert Tushabe.
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 57,218 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.
Downloads
Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:
| Data as a DwC-A file | download 57,218 records in English (1 MB) - Update frequency: as needed |
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| Metadata as an EML file | download in English (6 KB) |
| Metadata as an RTF file | download in English (6 KB) |
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
The National Biodiveristy Data Bank, data published in the ARCOS Biodiversity portal, 2014
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is National Biodiversity Data Bank. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 026af01f-d227-476f-9e81-d5273eca6a2b. National Biodiversity Data Bank publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Uganda.
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Geographic Coverage
Uganda. National scale data.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-1.582, 29.333], North East [4.6, 35.112] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1900-01-01 / 2014-12-20 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Data Manager |
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Sampling Methods
Direct human observations
| Study Extent | Uganda, countrywide. |
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Method step description:
- Direct human observations
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 026af01f-d227-476f-9e81-d5273eca6a2b |
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| http://arbims.arcosnetwork.org/ipt/resource?r=nbdb_data_2014 |