South Africa SAFARIS - Acocks Collecting Register 8

South African vegetation through the eyes of one man over a period of 40 years. John Phillip Harison Acocks (7 April 1911 Cape Town - 20 May 1979 Middelburg, Eastern Cape) used his observations to create the map of the Veld Types of South Africa that underpinned South African vegetation and botanical work for 50 years (1953 to 2005). Acocks collected in excess of 20 000 specimens, sampled at over 3 600 sites, recording over 390 000 species-locality observations. Many of his records are in amazingly neat writing. This forms an incredibly valuable source of information for biodiversity studies.
Join the SAFARIS – Southern African Friends and Researchers Indexing Specimens, an initiative of South African National Biodiversity Institute  The total number of tasks for this dataset is: 42, number transcribed is 42 and number validated is 24.

一位研究者耗时四十载记录下的南非植被全貌。约翰·菲利普·哈里森·阿科克斯（John Phillip Harison Acocks）于1911年4月7日生于开普敦，1979年5月20日卒于东开普省米德尔堡。他以长期实地观测为基础，绘制了《南非稀树草原植被类型（Veld Types of South Africa）分布图》，该成果为南非植被与植物学研究奠定了长达五十年（1953年至2005年）的核心支撑。阿科克斯累计采集逾20000份标本，在3600余个样点完成取样，记录超390000条物种-分布地点观测记录。其大量手写记录字迹极为工整清晰，为生物多样性（biodiversity）研究提供了极为宝贵的信息资源。
欢迎加入由南非国家生物多样性研究所（South African National Biodiversity Institute）发起的SAFARIS——南部非洲友人及标本编目研究者联盟（Southern African Friends and Researchers Indexing Specimens）项目。本数据集总任务量为42项，已完成转录的任务共42项，经审核验证的任务量为24项。