[tdwg-content] Floristic regions of the world

[Markus Döring]

Thanks Chuck,

I was wondering about that too. TDWG actually lists 2 geographic standards:

1) "World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions"
http://www.tdwg.org/standards/109/
published in 1992. 
I assume this is the first version of Brummit?


But then there is also

2) "Floristic Regions of the World"
http://www.tdwg.org/standards/104/
published in 1986 (matches Takhtajan)
with no further information.


So my guess was that both are prior standards endorsed by TDWG, is that true?

Markus



On 06 Nov 2014, at 17:00, Chuck Miller <Chuck.Miller at mobot.org> wrote:

> Markus,
> The TDWG standard is Richard Brummit's publication, published by the Hunt Institute, which is more recent than Takhtajan's:
> 
> Plant Taxonomic Database Standards No. 2. World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, ed. 2.
> R. K. Brummitt with assistance from F. Pando, S. Hollis, N. A. Brummitt and others. 2001. xv, 137 pp.; 17 maps. ISBN 0-913196-72-X.
> 
> There are several companion pieces to Brummitt's publication: 
> PDF http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/tdwg/TDWG_geo2.pdf
> Comma delimited and Access files: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/tdwg/geography_ed2.zip
> ArcView shape files: http://www.kew.org/gis/tdwg/index.html
> 
> As I announced at the TDWG meeting, I'm organizing a Task Group to update the TDWG World Geographical Scheme for ratification as a current, versus prior, standard.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
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> Hello,
> 
> TDWG lists as one of its prior standard the "Floristic regions of the world":
> http://www.tdwg.org/standards/104/
> 
> Unfortunately we do not give any information about it at all. It seems to me that the work of Takhtajan, A. 1986 is the actual endorsed standard.
> Can someone verfiy this?
> 
> Takhtajan, A. 1986. Floristic regions of the world, pp. vii-xiii. University of California Press
> http://www.isbnsearch.org/isbn/0520040279
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytochorion#Takhtajan.27s_floristic_regionalization
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Markus
> 
> 
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