Description
The project BioBlitz Barcelona is held once a year. From 2010 up to now the BioBlitz BCN has assembled experts and citizens in order to survey the biodiversity in several areas of the city of Barcelona, mainly in urban parks. At the beginning the Natural History Museum of Barcelona and the University of Barcelona have coordinated the tasks. At the present time the organization is driven by the Museum and the Friends of the Museum. The whole data from the first five editions (2010 - 2014) are compiled and published.
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 2,099 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
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Atienza, D. et al.(2015) Volunteers prospecting the biodiversity of Barcelona: a summary of the first five editions of BioBlitz BCN (2010-2014)
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 78ba4493-432d-4458-8696-7901cbe5e113. Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Spain.
Keywords
Occurrence; Observation; urban habitat; citizen science; biodiversity
Contacts
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- Originator
- Curator, non-arthropod invertebrates collections
- P. Picasso s/n
- Point Of Contact
- Head of Collections, Research and Documentation
- P. Picasso s/n
- Content Provider
- Herbarium Technician and Post-doctoral Researcher
- Passeig del Migdia, s/n
- Content Provider
- Curator
- Passeig del Migdia, s/n
- Content Provider
- Curator
- Passeig del Migdia, s/n
- Content Provider
- Technician
- Av. Diagonal, 643-645
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- PhD researcher
- Av. Diagonal, 643-645
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- Herbarium technician
- Passeig del Migdia, s/n
- Content Provider
- PhD researcher
- Passeig del Migdia, s/n
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- Natural Park Officer
- Urgell, 187, Edif. Rellotge 3ª
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- Biologist
- Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona. Plaça Leonardo da Vinci, 4-5
- Content Provider
- Biologist
- Carretera de l'Esglèsia, 92
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- Professor
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- Professor
- Fac. Biologia, Avda. Diagonal 643
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- Member
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- Member
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- Member
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- Vice-president
- Content Provider
- Professor
- Campus UAB, Edif. C, 08193
- Content Provider
- Founder member
- Content Provider
- Member
- Content Provider
- Technician
- Content Provider
- Member
- Content Provider
- Member
- Content Provider
- Member
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- Technician
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- Scientific assistant
- Content Provider
- Scientific assistant
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- Scientific assistant
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- Curator
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- Curator
Geographic Coverage
The municipality of Barcelona is located at the Northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, surrounded by mountains chains and the Mediterranean Sea. For the purposes of the BioBlitz Barcelona, some of the biggest urban parks have been selected.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [41.316, 2.05], North East [41.472, 2.256] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Protistas, fungi, plants and animals
| Phylum | Annelida, Arthropoda, Ascomycota, Bacillariophyta, Basidiomycota, Bryophyta, Chlorophyta, Chordata, Cyanobacteria, Dinophyta, Euglenozoa, Mollusca, Mycetozoa, Ochrophyta, Platyhelminthes, Prasinophyta, Tracheophyta |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2010-06-06 / 2014-05-31 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Volunteers prospecting the biodiversity of Barcelona: a summary of the first five editions of BioBlitz BCN (2010-2014) |
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| Funding | The City Hall of Barcelona has partailly funded the five editions of the BioBlitz Barcelona in agreement with the Natural History Museum of Barcelona. |
| Study Area Description | The prospections of biodiversity have been carried out in green areas of Barcelona: http://w110.bcn.cat/portal/site/MediAmbient/menuitem.37ea1e76b6660e13e9c5e9c5a2ef8a0c/?vgnextoid=303179583ad1a210VgnVCM10000074fea8c0RCRD&vgnextchannel=303179583ad1a210VgnVCM10000074fea8c0RCRD&lang=en_GB Barcelona is in a temperate range of temperature and humidity, with dry and hot summers and wet and cold winters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona. |
| Design Description | Experts and not experts are invited to prospect jointly some areas of the city of Barcelona. People expert in identification of biological organisms visit the study areas. At the same time they offer practical sessions of formation for citizens. Mixed groups, experts plus citizens, discover the presence of biological specimens of a precise place in a short temporal range. Resulting datasets are finally submitted to the local agency of environmental affairs. |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Principal Investigator
Sampling Methods
Each year one or two places are choosen for inventorying tasks; the sampling points may differ or not between editions. Along three days (a long weekend) per year, citizens and experts prospect selected areas. At the end, all observations are merged to create comprehensive lists of flora and fauna.
| Study Extent | The selection of prospection places has focused on big urban parks: Ciutadella, Laberint, and Montjuïc. Besides, some minor gardens like University gardens or botanical nursery are also surveyed. |
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| Quality Control | All datasets are checked by experts. |
Method step description:
- - Selection of sample points according to the needs of the environmental agency of the City Hall of Barcelona. - Campaign of scientific and citizen volunteers. - Along a weekend, simultaneously to a fair of NGO's, biodiversity prospectings are carried out. - Inventories are standardized and aggregated in a single dataset.
- Inventories are mapped against Darwin Core standard, and finally compiled to get a single descriptive resource of the biodiversity in Barcelona.
Collection Data
| Collection Name | BioBlitz Bcn |
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| Collection Identifier | n/a |
| Parent Collection Identifier | n/a |
| Specimen preservation methods | No treatment |
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| Curatorial Units | Between 1,700 and 1,800 occurrence |
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Additional Metadata
| Purpose | Information from BioBlitz Bcn is intended to increase the knowledge of the biodiversity in the city of Barcelona. In a broad perspective. Collected data set is managed by technicians of the environmental agency of the City Hall of Barcelona. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | doi:10.15470/ssy7h3 |
| 78ba4493-432d-4458-8696-7901cbe5e113 | |
| https://ipt.gbif.es/resource?r=bioblitz_bcn |