ABC_Event data recorded on a day trip to Mongolwe and Chikala Hills Forest Reserve, Machinga District

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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 6 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.

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Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Mwafongo E (2018): ABC_Event data recorded on a day trip to Mongolwe and Chikala Hills Forest Reserve, Machinga District. v1.6. National Herbarium & Botanic Gardens of Malawi. Dataset/Samplingevent. http://196.32.215.240:8081/ipt/resource?r=abc_mongolwe_chikala_forest_reserve&v=1.6

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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

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: fdf17dd6-44fa-409c-be7f-8a6a86c3cb76.  National Herbarium & Botanic Gardens of Malawi publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Malawi.

Keywords

Samplingevent; Chikala Hills; Machinga; Malawi

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Geographic Coverage

This day trip was done in Machinga District in southern region, Malawi

Taxonomic Coverage

The list consists of members of the phylum Tracheophyta belonging to two classes Liliopsida and Magnoliopsida. All mebers of the two classes were further identified to Order, Family, Genus and then to species level.

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

The African Biodiversity Challenge is a competition coordinated by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) and funded by the JRS Biodiversity Foundation. The competition follows on from a previous JRS-funded project, “Mobilising Policy and Decision-making Relevant Biodiversity Data”, which culminated in the Africa Rising conference in 2015, and supports on-going efforts to further enhance the Biodiversity Information Management activities of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Africa network.

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Sampling Methods

A 25m was laid to measure the size of a quadrat of 10x10m. Elevation and cordinates were recorded at the center of each quadrat in order to have average readings for the entire quadrat. The same string was used to measure a distance of 100m between quadrats(interval). Species observations were made in 6 quadrats.

Method step description:

1. Repeatability can be done by tracing quadrat 1 with a hand held GPS and trace the remainder of the quadrats using track point while maintaining a 100m distance between quadrats

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