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Species Occurrence Schemas

NatureServe Species Occurrence Schema

Description:

The NatureServe Species Occurrence Schema is a document that describes, in XML, species occurrence level attributes reflected in NatureServe's biodiversity data model. A separate schema describes species level data as managed by the NatureServe central database. This schema applies to plant and animal species, and is not intended to apply to data on ecological units managed by NatureServe.

Version:

0.3

Detailed Documents:

Field-by-Field Human Readable Documentation

Sample XML: Ardea herodias (great blue heron)

Associated Schemas:

CompleteSpeciesOccurrenceSchema.xsd		This is the root of the XML schema hierarchy. All of the rest of the schemas are included from this file and represent sub-elements below "speciesOccurrence". If you are trying to learn more about the species occurrence schema start here.
DistributionTypesSchema.xsd		These are the sub-elements that deal with the tabular location data associated with an element, such as nations and provinces/states where this species is known to exist.
NatureServeBasicTypes.xsd		These are the subtypes that are used to compose the other schema documents. These are abstract types that don't always have a corresponding entity.

Zip: Zip file of all of the documentation and schemas

Feedback:

This schema is currently in the public feedback phase until March 10th, 2006. So if you have feedback we would love to hear from you!

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