ABC Matandwe Forest Reserve Vegetation Survey
Latest version published by National Herbarium & Botanic Gardens of Malawi on May 31, 2022
Matandwe FR was gazetted in 1931 and is located in Nsanje district in the Rift Valley scarp zone, comprising a range of hills including Mulaka hills in the north and Natundu Hills in the south. In the NW the FR is bordered by Mwabvi Game Reserve. The FR extends from approximately south of Bangula. The soils are lithosols The vegetation is open canopy woodland of hills and scarps dominated by Brachystegia species, especially B. boehmii, and a degraded form of Uapaca kirkiana.
The area of the FR is estimated to be 262.05 km2; however, it has been encroached and excised several times. Accessibility in the FR is difficult due to rugged terrain; there is only one earth road branching off the Bangula-Nsanjebitumised road leading to Chididi Mission.
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 12 records. 1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
- Event (core)
- Occurrence
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| Data as a DwC-A file | download 12 records in English (9 KB) - Update frequency: unknown |
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Mwafongo E (2018): ABC Matandwe Forest Reserve Vegetation Survey. v1.2. National Herbarium & Botanic Gardens of Malawi. Dataset/Samplingevent. http://196.32.215.240:8081/ipt/resource?r=abc_matandwe_evendata&v=1.2
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is National Herbarium & Botanic Gardens of Malawi. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
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Keywords
Samplingevent; Matandwe; Nsanje; Malawi
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Geographic Coverage
Matandwe Forest Reserve extends from approximately 16o37’S just south of Bangula to 16o55’S along Malindi river, Nsanje District.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-17.075, 35.119], North East [-16.806, 35.296] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The dataset contains a total of 107 species recorded in 39 families,
| Class | Liliopsida, Magnoliopsida |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2012-02-05 / 2012-02-11 |
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Sampling Methods
Chididi road cutting through a section of the FR was used as a base for establishing transects and quadrats. Five transects and a total of twelve quadrats (20 x 50 m) were established. Transect and quadrat positions were georeferenced using a GPS. Quadrats were spaced 250m apart. In each quadrat a general list of all plants was done. For tree species DBH and tree height were recorded on a data forms.
| Study Extent | Matandwe FR was gazetted in 1931; it is located in Nsanje district in the Rift Valley scarp zone, comprising a range of hills including Mulaka hills in the north and Natundu Hills in the south. In the NW the FR is bordered by Mwabvi Game Reserve. The FR extends from approximately 16o37’S just south of Bangula to 16o55’S along Malind |
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Method step description:
- Coordinate information was originally in Degrees minutes and seconds and were translated to decimal, degrees and seconds using a web based software http://www.rcn.montana.edu/resources/converter.aspx
Additional Metadata
Please note that the OccurenceID has a suffix "MTM" which represents the three individuals who collected the data in the field and they are; Mwanyambo, M., Thera,M. and Mpalika, D.
| Purpose | National Herbarium is a botanical institution whose objective is to carry out plant inventories from all the areas in Malawi. Since most forest reserves are at risk because of over exploitation, the prime responsibility of the institution is to document the species that are found in these forest reserves and asses the degree of threat of the species. most datasets are in print format and it is through the project"Africa Biodiversity Challenge" that these datasets are being mobilized and converted to Darwin Core format and published at GBIF. |
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| Maintenance Description | Updates will depend on acquisition of new data |
| Alternative Identifiers | c1ae1c90-d21e-49d9-b5a8-6605c07c8364 |
| http://196.32.215.240:8081/ipt/resource?r=abc_matandwe_evendata |