Rules for the use of the Biodiversity Data Bank of the Canary Islands (BDBC)

According to the Order of June 1, 1999, by which the Canary Islands Biodiversity Data Bank is created (art. 2), the objectives of the Data Bank (hereinafter BDBC) are, between others, to facilitate free access to information by interested people and institutions and to disseminate biodiversity as a potential for the future and promote its sustainable use. In consistent with these objectives and with the Law 27/2006, of 18 July, which regulates the rights of access to information of public participation and access to justice in matters of Environment , the Government of the Canary Islands has made BDBC publicly available.

The BDBC can be consulted via web, which allows free access to information about all the wild species of the Canary Islands. The user can consult and download data related to the distribution of species and subspecies, their taxonomic position, the level of endemicity, their origin, protection status, etc.

Scope of BDBC

According to the aforementioned Order of June 1, 1999 (art.3) and with the Law 4/2010 of June 4 of the Canary Islands Catalog of Protected Species (Article 1.2) The BDBC is considered a public and administrative registry. The information registered in the BDBC, updated annually, comes from published works and studies or unpublished reports. The BDBC reflects the knowledge we have of the distribution of the species, but not its actual distribution, therefore it is likely that there are species in certain territories that have not been cited so far. For this reason, the BDBC is a fundamental support tool in the management and conservation of the natural environment of the archipelago, but not the only one.

The BDBC contains exclusively wild species and subspecies residing in the Canary Islands (see Manual of Load Criteria ). All the information registered in it is supported by documents that are validated by scientific supervisors.

Rules of use

Without prejudice to the provisions of the Revised Text of the Intellectual Property Law (Royal Legislative Decree 1/1996, of April 12) , the use of the information registered in the BDBC requires considering the following:

The Government of the Canary Islands is not responsible for the terms in which the information registered in the BDBC is used.
The Government of the Canary Islands is not responsible for the use of the data registered in the BDBC without the recognition of the intellectual property of the authors.
The intellectual property rights of the authors of unpublished documents created specifically for the BDBC must be respected, such as Advocacy Notes or References of Expert
The intellectual property rights of the authors of the images contained in the BDBC must be respected

How to cite the BDBC

Bearing in mind that the BDBC is a database for consultation and analysis of information from different sources, it is necessary to establish standards for citing the data obtained from the BDBC, following the guidelines of ISO 690-2 regarding citations of electronic monographs and databases.

To quote in a global way the information registered in the Data Bank, use:
Government of the Canary Islands. Biodiversity Data Bank of the Canary Islands (http //: www.biodiversidadcanarias.es \ biota) [Date of the consultation].
To quote the result of a query extracted from the BDBC, the parameters of the filter used for its correct interpretation must be included in the appointment.
Example: Government of the Canary Islands. Biodiversity Data Bank of the Canary Islands (http //: www.biodiversidadcanarias.es \ biota) [Date of consultation]. " The data extracted from the BDBC correspond to citations after 1969, levels of precision 1 and 2, level of confident confidence and distribution in UTM cells of 500 "
To cite images of the species in the BDBC use:
Example: Government of the Canary Islands. Carabus faustus faustus (Author: P. Oromí) in the Biodiversity Data Bank of the Canary Islands. Available at http //: www.biodiversidadcanarias.es \ biota. [Date of consultation].
To cite Expert References and Advocacy Notes registered in the BDBC (unpublished BDBC documents) use:
Example: Government of the Canary Islands. Báez, M. 1999. On the localities related to the lepidopteran species Opogona omoscopa, Casama innotata and Eupithecia unedonata, and on synonyms of the order Lepidoptera. ), Available at http //: www.biodiversidadcanarias.es \ biota