Frog Atlas of Southern Africa

Date started: 2010-09-20
Web page: http://adu.org.za/frog_atlas.php

FrogMAP is a citizen science project which aims to determine the distribution and conservation priorities of Amphibians on the African continent. FrogMAP is building the 21st century distribution maps for Africa's frogs. FrogMAP is the continuation of the Southern African Frog Atlas Project (SAFAP). It aims to build on the distribution data collected during seven years of fieldwork (1996-2003), plus earlier data compiled from museum records, private collections, the literature and conservation agencies. SAFAP data was used for the 2003 red listing of all frog species of the region, the results were published in the book Atlas and Red Data Book of the Frogs of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland, published by the Smithsonian Institution, USA.

 

SAFAP Metadata
1) DATASET CONTACT
Name of Organization/Department	FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Department of Biological Science, University of Cape Town
Contact person (Person to contact about the dataset)	Dr Rene Navarro
Position	Information Systems Specialist
Postal Address	FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Department of Biological Science, University of Cape Town
Postal code	7701
City/Town	Rondebosch, Cape Town
Province	Western Cape
Country	South Africa
Telephone	+27 (0)21 650 4751
Cell
Fax	+27 (0)21 650 3301
Email	rene.navarro@uct.ac.za
Website address (url)	http://adu.org.za/frog_atlas.php
2) DATASET METADATA
Title of dataset	Atlas of the Frogs of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland
Brief description (max. 200 words)	Distribution data collected during seven years of fieldwork (1996-2003), plus earlier data compiled from museum records, private collections, the literature and conservation agencies. FrogMAP, started in 2010-09-20, is the Virtual Museum continuation of SAFAP.
Purpose (max. 200 words)	Data was used for the 2003 red listing of all frog species of the region, the results were published in the book "Atlas and Red Data Book of the Frogs of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. 2004. Edited by Minter L.R., Burger M., Harrison J.A., Braack H.H., Bishop P.J. & Kloepfer D. SI/MAB Series no. 9. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Published by the Smithsonian Institution and the Avian Demography Unit."
Begin date (When data collection started)	SAFAP: 1996; FrogMAP: 2010-09-20
End date for static datasets (When was data collection ended)	SAFAP: 2003; FrogMAP: ongoing
3) DATA QUALITY
Give a brief account of any biases, gaps or errors which may exist in the dataset.	FrogMAP is the Virtual Museum continuation of SAFAP. See: http://vmus.adu.org.za/?vm=FrogMAP
4) ACCESS/USE CONSTRAINTS
How to get a copy of the dataset	Summary data is freely available from the website: http://adu.org.za/frog_atlas.php. However, the taxonomy used in this static summary data is obsolete. Please refer to FrogMAP for updated distribution data (http://vmus.adu.org.za/?vm=FrogMAP).
5) OTHER INFORMATION
Other information about the dataset which may be important.	Not all information is freely available, data provided by the Transvaal Museun and The National Museum Bloemfountain require written permission to acces their data. Data users must write to the respective museum directors to obtain such permission.
6) METADATA AUTHOR
Author name (name of the person who entered the metadata record)	Rene Navarro
Author organization	Animal Demography Unit, Department of Biological Science, University of Cape Town
Author position	Information Systems Specialist
Author address	Animal Demography Unit, Department of Biological Science, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch
Author postal code	7701
Author city/town	Cape Town
Author province	Western Cape
Author country	South Africa
Author telephone	+27 (0)21 650 4751
Author fax	+27 (0)21 650-3295
Author email	rene.navarro@uct.ac.za
Metadata creation date	24-August-2009
Last update of metadata	17-July-2018