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. 2016 Nov 7;(74):1–18. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.74.9723

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Gilles Dauby, Rainer Zaiss, Anne Blach-Overgaard, Luís Catarino, Theo Damen, Vincent Deblauwe, Steven Dessein, John Dransfield, Vincent Droissart, Maria Cristina Duarte, Henry Engledow, Geoffrey Fadeur, Rui Figueira, Roy E. Gereau, Olivier J. Hardy, David J. Harris, Janneke de Heij, Steven Janssens, Yannick Klomberg, Alexandra C. Ley, Barbara A. Mackinder, Pierre Meerts, Jeike L. van de Poel, Bonaventure Sonké, Marc S. M. Sosef, Tariq Stévart, Piet Stoffelen, Jens-Christian Svenning, Pierre Sepulchre, Xander van der Burgt, Jan J. Wieringa, Thomas L. P. Couvreur

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Figure 2. — Examples of the georeferencing verification process. a The georeferenced record falls within a neighbouring country (here GAB) of its documented country (here COG). The nearest distance between the occurrence and the border of the documented country is computed b The georeferenced record falls within a non-neighbouring country (here GNQ) of its documented country (here Republic of the Congo). This record is classified as ‘Error’ and is discarded c The georeferenced record lies beyond the coastline. The nearest distance between the occurrence and the coastline of the documented country is computed.