The "Taxonomic Checklist and Occurrences of Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in Sabah, Malaysia" has now been published onto the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) portal. This dataset is now on its second iteration and its taxonomic checklist (.core dataset) now comes with an an occurrence dataset (.extension) with a total of 10,840 occurrences with 100% taxon match and 100% geographic coordinate information.
This occurrence dataset attempts at providing documentation of all known occurrence of dung beetles in Sabah, Malaysia and will be updated as new occurrences are discovered. The data from this occurrence dataset were obtained from published taxonomic papers, ecological papers and published datasets containing extractable occurrence records for dung beetles in Sabah, Malaysia. Each record contains the species name, followed by information such as, event date, individuals, elevation, locality and location remarks. References to the the data source is also provided under the column 'associatedReferences'. Each occurrence is linked back to the taxonomic checklist dataset using the column 'taxonID' and this ID can be used in the resources (.extension) to locate the data source. Combined together, we hope that this taxonomic checklist and occurrence extension will aid users for future research in the dung beetles of Sabah.
This taxonomic checklist and occurrence dataset is open-access and made freely available for all [(CC-BY-NC) 4.0]to build capacity among regional stakeholders to prepare for a future in academic research and citizen science where dung beetles are easily identifiable and will be widely encouraged for use as bioindicators and for other ecological studies.
This is the one of several datasets that will be published as part of our GBIF Project on ' Mobilising data on ecologically important insects in Malaysia and Singapore' funded by the Biodiversity Information Fund for Asia (BIFA).
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