ABC event data for Nyika Plateau, Buma Hills

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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 51 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.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Mwafongo E (2018): ABC event data for Nyika Plateau, Buma Hills. v1.2. National Herbarium & Botanic Gardens of Malawi. Dataset/Samplingevent. http://196.32.215.240:8081/ipt/resource?r=abc_nyika_thazima_bumahills_eventdata&v=1.2

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

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: ac772abb-fa13-4bd2-8222-c8e7875e260e.  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; Nyika Plateau; Buma Hills; Malawi

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Geographic Coverage

The dataset comes from Nyika Plateau Buma Hills, Northen Malawi, Central Africa

Taxonomic Coverage

The dataset consists of members of 3 plant Classes; Liliopsida, Magnoliopsida, Polypodiopsida

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.

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

A 50meter measuring tape and string were during the survey. These were used for measuring the size of each quadrat. A hand held campus was used for proper positioning of the quadrats. Two transect walks were done each originating from Thazima gate one to the northen direction and the second one to the eastern direction

Method step description:

1. Quadrats Measuring 25 x 25m were laid along each transect with an interval of 125m between each quadrat.In each quadrat, plant species present were recorded. The dominant tree species were also recorded. The Georeferences and elevation readings for each quadrat was captured using a GPS.

Additional Metadata

This dataset was collected by the following individuals, Jamestone Kamwendo, Augustine Salubeni, Christopher Tembo, Gibson Mphepo. These names have been