BioBlitz Barcelona 2010-14
Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona
Description
The project BioBlitz Barcelona is held once a year. From 2010 up to now the BioBlitz BCN has assembled experts and citizens in order to survey the biodiversity in several areas of the city of Barcelona, mainly in urban parks. At the beginning the Natural History Museum of Barcelona and the University of Barcelona have coordinated the tasks. At the present time the organization is driven by the Museum and the Friends of the Museum. The whole data from the first five editions (2010 - 2014) are compiled and published.
Goals
Information from BioBlitz Bcn is intended to increase the knowledge of the biodiversity in the city of Barcelona. In a broad perspective. Collected data set is managed by technicians of the environmental agency of the City Hall of Barcelona.
Strengths
Protistas, fungi, plants and animals.
How to cite
Atienza, D. et al.(2015) Volunteers prospecting the biodiversity of Barcelona: a summary of the first five editions of BioBlitz BCN (2010-2014).
Collection period
2010-06-06 / 2014-05-31.
Taxonomic range
Kingdoms covered include: Animalia, Fungi, Plantae and Protista.
The BioBlitz Barcelona 2010-14 collection includes members from the following taxa:
Annelida, Arthropoda, Ascomycota, Bacillariophyta, Basidiomycota, Bryophyta, Chlorophyta, Chordata, Cyanobacteria, Dinophyta, Euglenozoa, Haliplidae, Hygrobiidae, Mollusca, Mycetozoa, Noteridae, Ochrophyta, Platyhelminthes, Prasinophyta and Tracheophyta.
Geographic range
The municipality of Barcelona is located at the Northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, surrounded by mountains chains and the Mediterranean Sea. For the purposes of the BioBlitz Barcelona, some of the biggest urban parks have been selected.
Number of specimens in the collection
Click the Records & Statistics tab to access those database records that are available through the atlas.
Sub-collections
The BioBlitz Barcelona 2010-14 collection contains these significant collections:
Metadata last updated on 2023-08-25 11:50:27.0
Digitised records available through the Atlas
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