The Cyprus Herp Atlas: An initiative for systematic recording of amphibian and reptile occurrences in Cyprus.

ABSTRACT: Even though the reptiles and amphibians of Cyprus are of scientific and conservation importance and although several books, guides and scientific reports have been published the past 30 years, there is a clear absence of a systematic recording and archiving scheme of all available data in a structural database. Towards this end, the Cyprus Herp (= reptiles and amphibians) Atlas has been developed. The Atlas constitutes the first effort to collect all existing locality data of the herpetofauna species of the island (i.e. scientific reports, books, journals, grey literature) in a single database and simultaneously promote a citizen-science approach in order to collect and constantly update the database with new records. The website of the Atlas contains basic educational and informational ma

SUBMITTER: Zotos S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10189535 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature