University of Amsterdam (NL) - Páramo Vegetation Research, National Natural Park El Cocuy, Colombia

The Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) from University of Amsterdam (UvA) has been working on the Paramos of Colombia since 1970, collecting information on different aspects of plant ecology. The Sierra Nevada del Cocuy data set is generated from two sources, one is the field data from professor Antoine Cleef (collected in different field campaigns between 1972 and 2012, derived from his PhD thesis (1981), the ECOANDES project and independent field trips) and the second is a study on paramo ecology by Helmut Sturm and Orlando Rangel in 1985. Both studies provide information on the occurrence and location of 2147 plant species from the Paramo in this area. For the purpose of the GBIF data-publishing, vegetation releve data were converted into species occurrence data.