Description
Lichens are significant components of the Biological Soil Crust (BSC) communities in gypsum ecosystems and are involved in several processes related to ecosystem functioning. Although numerous studies centered on lichen taxonomy and ecology have been performed in these habitats, global information about the lichen species from gypsum ecosystems or their distributional ranges at a global scale is missing. Thus, a global data set of lichen species growing on gypsum has been compiled. A total of 321 studies were finally retained for the review. This data set is composed of 6114 specimen records, belonging to 336 lichen species from 26 countries throughout the World. Spain and Germany hosted the highest number of species (160 and 114 species respectively). Outside the European continent, only a few countries had a significant number of species: Morocco (46), United States (42), and Iran (37). Remarkably, countries from the southern hemisphere (i.e. Australia, Chile, Namibia, and South Africa) showed a low number of studies from gypsum lands. The number of records per country showed a similar pattern as the species number, having Spain and Germany the highest number of records (3863 and 1075 respectively). Thirty one families are present in the data set. Teloschistaceae (56 species), Verrucariaceae (38 species), and Cladoniaceae (37 species) are the most represented families showing the highest number of species. Regarding the number of records, Cladoniaceae (1267 records), Teloschistaceae (972 records), and Psoraceae (539 records) are the most abundant families. Psora decipiens (Psoraceae) and Squamarina lentigera (Cladoniaceae) are the most widespread species concerning the number of countries in which the species were present, and the most abundant regarding the total number of records.
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 6,114 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.
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Muriel S, Aragón G, Martínez I, Prieto M (2024). GYPSUM LICHENS: a global data set of lichen species from gypsum ecosystems. Version 1.2. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.15470/6yne3u
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. 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: a58b5ac4-0570-4ce4-b67b-077d43460cce. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Spain.
Keywords
Occurrence; Arid; Biological Soil Crust; BSC; Gypsiferous; Gypsophiles; Gypsovags; Saxicolous; Terricolous
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Geographic Coverage
The data set includes revised studies of gypsum soils from the Mediterranean Basin (e.g., Spain, Italy, Morocco, Turkey), Central Europe (Germany, Poland), Middle East (Iran, Iraq), and central parts of Asia (Kazakhstan, Russia), United States, Mexico, Canada, Chile, the southern territories of Africa (Namibia, South Africa), and Australia, covering a large part of the total distribution of the gypsum soils in the World
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [21.006, -119.467], North East [53.935, 99.567] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1881-01-01 / 2018-12-12 |
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Project Data
The GYPWORLD project aims at an integrated global study of the ecology and evolution of plant and lichen life on gypsum, including eight gypsum-rich regions from four continents that differ in geological origin, climate, and flora.
| Title | GYPWORLD: A Global initiative to understand gypsum ecosystem ecology |
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| Identifier | GYPWORLD |
| Funding | European Union |
| Study Area Description | Gypsum ecosystems are mainly located in arid and semi-arid lands around the World: Australia, Eastern and Southwest Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, some territories of South America, USA, and Mexico, and Western and Central Asia |
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 10.15470/6yne3u |
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| a58b5ac4-0570-4ce4-b67b-077d43460cce | |
| https://ipt.gbif.es/resource?r=gypsum_lichens |