ABC_Nyika National Park-Uledi_sampling event data

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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 25 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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Mpalika D (2018): ABC_Nyika National Park-Uledi_sampling event data. v1.1. National Herbarium & Botanic Gardens of Malawi. Dataset/Samplingevent. http://196.32.215.240:8081/ipt/resource?r=nyikanp_uledi_eventdata&v=1.1

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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.

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This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 97fdda72-823d-4109-b9d0-1e3d62e567c2.  National Herbarium & Botanic Gardens of Malawi publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Malawi.

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Geographic Coverage

Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa. It is wholly within the tropics; from about 9°30S at its northernmost point to about 17°S at the southernmost tip.

Taxonomic Coverage

All vascular plants have been identified up to kingdom level or family level.

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Project Data

The African Biodiversity Challenge is a project coordinated by South Africa National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI)and funded by JRS Biodiversity Foundation. Its main focus is mobilising Biodiversity data and making it accessible through online platforms such as GBIF Website.

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Sampling Methods

2 strings (50m and 25m), a campus, GPS, measuring rod, D.B.H. meter Panga knife and a digital camera were used during the survey. A 25 m string and a 50 m string were used for measuring the size of each quadrant and interval of 100m between quadrants respectively. A campus was used for positioning the right direction of the transect, measuring rod was used for measuring the tree height, D.B.H. meter used to measure tree diameter, Panga knife was used to clear the way in thick forest and the digital camera was used to take photographs of the vegetation. One line transect was laid from North edge to South towards the upper Mpero hills within the park along the North Rukuru river about 3 km away. Georeference and elevation readings were taken from the centre of each quadrant in order to get fair or mean readings.

Method step description:

1. One line transect was laid from North edge to South towards the upper Mpero hills within the park along the North Rukuru river about 3 km away. Quadrants made were each measured 25m by 25m at an interval of 100 meters between quadrants. Georeference and elevation readings were taken from the center of each quadrant in order to get fair or mean readings. The data was recorded on printed sheets and was captured electronically using Microsoft office excel program, data was analysed using excel tools to determine coverage percentages, species population and also other data control measures. The recorded georeferenced data was in degree minutes and seconds, and was converted into decimal degrees using LatLong.net convertor tool.

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