Description
The presented data originate from scientific monographs published in the journal Natural History Monographs of the Upper Silesian Museum. The database includes articles from 2025 onward and is regularly updated. Natural History Monographs of the Upper Silesian Museum series is published irregularly online by the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom. It is an international journal devoted to all aspects of natural history (in broad sense).
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 576 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:
Szczepański W, Dobosz R, Szołtys W, Larysz A (2025). Natural History Monographs of the Upper Silesian Museum – data from monographs. Version 1.2. Upper Silesian Museum, Bytom. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.gbif.pl/resource?r=usmb_nhmusm&v=1.2
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Upper Silesian Museum, Bytom. 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: 85dd2601-f5ed-43b0-87b0-28eec26b314b. Upper Silesian Museum, Bytom publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Polish Biodiversity Information Network.
Keywords
Occurrence
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Geographic Coverage
Worldwide; currently, the area of Greece.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [31.179, 20.26], North East [41.506, 29.568] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Order | Hymenoptera |
| Family | Formicidae |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1976-07-06 / 2024-05-18 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Natural History Monographs of the Upper Silesian Museum – data from monographs |
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| Identifier | USMB_NHMUSM |
Sampling Methods
As in the original paper.
| Study Extent | Published data in Natural History Monographs of the Upper Silesian Museum. |
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Method step description:
- As in the original paper.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 85dd2601-f5ed-43b0-87b0-28eec26b314b |
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| https://ipt.gbif.pl/resource?r=usmb_nhmusm |