Mosses occurrences dataset from the temperate region of the north hemisphere: tempNorthBryo.

Dataset of publicly available biodiversity information of mosses records from the temperate region of the Northern Hemisphere. It contains 9,195,062 occurrences result of the compilation, cleaning, enrichment and validation from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF 2021; phylum=Bryophyta), the Botanical Information and Ecology Network (BIEN), Consortium of North American Bryophyte Herbaria (CNABH) and the Integrated digitized biocollections (iDigBio). This database was created to assess and quantify how the application of different filters and taxonomic standardization databases affect the spatial patterns of species richness.

Format: txt file with tab field separators and UTF-8 encoding

Spatial coverage: lat = 20.000 -90.000; long = -180.000 - 180.000 

Temporal coverage start=1600; end=2021 

Detail description of each of the 34 fields contained in the dataset.

ID Number(Integer) Unique Identifier of records

id       Number(Integer) Unique Identifier of cell associated to study area grid.

sourceText(String) Name of the original database of the record: Global Biodiversity Information Facility "GBIF", Botanical Information and Ecology Network "BIEN", Consortium of North American Bryophyte Herbaria "CNABH", Integrated Digitized Biocollections "iDigBio"

regionText(String) 2 letters code corresponding to one of the three regions established for the study:  Europe and North Africa "eu", North America "am" and Asia "as".

decimalLongitudeDarwin Core term.Number(Float) Geographic longitude (in decimal degrees, using the spatial reference system given in geodeticDatum) of the geographic center of a Location. Accepted values lie between -180 and 180, inclusive.

decimalLatitudeDarwin Core term.Number(Float) Geographic latitude (in decimal degrees, using the spatial reference system given in geodeticDatum) of the geographic center of a Location. Accepted values lie between -90 and 90, inclusive.

countryCodeDarwin Core term.Text(String) 2 letters standard code for the country in which the record was colleted for GBIF database.

countryText(String) Name of the country associated to the record's position in idigBio, CNABH or BIEN database.

GADM_LocationText(String) Name (in lowercase) of the administrative unit at level 0 associated to the coordinates location by their position. 'sea' correspond to those coordinates located out of any polygon in the shapefile.

Coastal_CountryText(String) Name (in lowercase) of the nearest administrative unit at level 0 associated to the coordinates location by their position in a 0.1º buffer.

scientificNameDarwin Core term.Text(String) Full scientific name of the organism, to the lowest level taxonomic rank that is possible to supply, and including authorship and year of the name where applicable.

sppNameText(String) Scientific name (genus + epithet specific) accepted by at least 3 of the taxonomic sources evaluated (GBIF backbone, The Plant List, World Flora Online, Tropicos or Taxonomic Name resolution Service)

consensusValueNumber(Integer) Number of taxonomic sources considered to generate the species name of the record ('sppName' field). Values accepted: 5, 4 or 3.

gbif_speciesText(String) Scientific name (genus + epithet specific) obtained after taxonomic standardization with GBIF backbone using script 2.

gbif_statusText(String) Taxonomical status of the species name in 'gbif_species' field based on GBIF backbone. Values: "ACCEPTED" "SYNONYM"  "DOUBTFUL" 

TPL_speciesText(String) Scientific name (genus + epithet specific) obtained after taxonomic standardization with The Plant List using script 2.

TPL_taxonStatusText(String) Taxonomical status of the species name in 'TPL_species' field based on The Plant List. Values: "accepted" or "unresolved" 

tnrs_species_noauthorsText(String) Scientific name (genus + epithet specific) obtained after taxonomic standardization with Taxonomic Name resolution Service using script 2.

tnrs_statusText(String) Taxonomical status of the species name in 'tnrs_species_noauthors' field based on Taxonomic Name resolution Service. Values: "Accepted", "Synonym", "No opinion"

Tropicos_Accepted_speciesText(String) Scientific name (genus + epithet specific) obtained after taxonomic standardization with Tropicos using script 2.

Tropicos_taxonomic_statusText(String) Taxonomical status of the species name in 
'Tropicos_Accepted_species' field based on Tropicos. Values: "Accepted", "Synonym", "No opinion"

wfo.speciesText(String) Scientific name (genus + epithet specific) obtained after taxonomic standardization with World Flora Online using script 2.

wfo_taxonomicStatusText(String) Taxonomical status of the species name in 'wfo.species' field based on GBIF backbone. Values: "accepted" or "unchecked"

basisOfRecordDarwin Core term.Text(String) Darwin Core dataset element. The specific nature of the data record.

basisOfRecordRevText(String) Revised and unified information of 'basisOfRecord' field. Allowed values: ‘PRESERVED_SPECIMEN’; ‘HUMAN_OBSERVATION’; ‘UNKNOWN’; 'LITERATURE'; 'plot'; 'LIVING_SPECIMEN'; 'MATERIAL_SAMPLE'.

dayDarwin Core term.Number(Integer) Darwin Core dataset element. The integer day of the month on which the Event occurred.

monthDarwin Core term.Number(Integer) Darwin Core dataset element. The ordinal month in which the Event occurred.

yearDarwin Core term.Number(Integer) Darwin Core dataset element. The four-digit year in which the Event occurred, according to the Common Era Calendar.

eventDateDarwin Core term.IdateDate-time or interval during which the record was collected.

dayRevNumber(Integer) Revised 'day' field deleting values up to 31

monthRevNumber(Integer) Revised 'month' field deleting values up to 12

dateText(String) Valid date of collection. Obtained by concatenating ('/') 'dayRev' + 'monthRev' + 'year' fields.

recordedByDarwin Core term.Text(String) A list (concatenated and separated) of names of people, groups, or organizations responsible for recording the original Occurrence. 

recBy_RevText(String) Manually revised 'recorderBy' field. Strings to lower and delete extra white space.