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

Elizabeth Mwafongo1, Eliza Mwafongo2, Donald Mpalika1, Hassan Patel1

1 National Herbarium & Botanic Gardens of Malawi, P.O. Box 528, Zomba, Malawi; 2 National Herbarium & Botanic Gardens of Malawi, P.O. Box 528, Zomba

Corresponding author(s): Elizabeth Mwafongo (emwafongo@yahoo.com)

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Resource Citation

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

Abstract

The present data was collected during a day field trip to Mongolwe and Chikala Hills Forest Reserves in Machinga on 12 August 2005 by I.H. Patel, P.H. Nansomgole and A.K. Manana. This area is located North East of Mongolwe Hill slopes, along Likwenu River which marks the boundary between Mpango Village and T.A. Stola area.

Keywords: Samplingevent, Chikala Hills, Machinga, Malawi

General description

Purpose: The purpose of this investigation was to document species and GPS coordinates for this area to be used in digitization exercise of the area

Project details

Project title: Enhancing accessibility of biodiversity data in Malawi
Personnel: Elizabeth Mwafongo, Donald Mpalika, Zacheous Kantchowa
Funding: JRS Biodiversity Foundation
Study area descriptions/descriptor: This project is taking place in Malawi. Malawi, a landlocked country in southeastern Africa, is defined by its topography of highlands split by the Great Rift Valley and Lake Malawi.
Design description: Data is being mobilised by three institutions; Museums of Malawi (MOM,National Herbarium and Botanic Gardens (NHBG),Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi (WESM) while National Commission for Science and Technology is hosting the IPT. The goal of the project is to facilitate access to biodiversity data information held by the Museums. 

Biodiversity data made available on a national Data platform – the platform will be accessible through both the government Museum website and the Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi (WESM) website.

Data published through GBIF: http://196.32.215.240:8081/ipt/resource?r=abc_mongolwe_chikala_forest_reserve

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: 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.
Taxonomic ranks
Class: Liliopsida, Magnoliopsida

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: This day trip was done in Machinga District in southern region, Malawi
Coordinates: 15°25'58.8''S and 14°55'58.8''S Latitude; 35°12'25.2''E and 35°34'55.2''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: August 12, 2005

Methods

Method step description: 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
Study extent description: This study took place in Southern Region of Malawi specifically in Machinga district between Mongolwe and Chikala Forest Reserve in Machinga
Sampling description: 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.
Quality control description: none

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive ABC_Event data recorded on a day trip to Mongolwe and Chikala Hills Forest Reserve, Machinga District
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://196.32.215.240:8081/ipt/archive.do?r=abc_mongolwe_chikala_forest_reserve
Publication date of data: 2022-05-31
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-09-09
Hierarchy level: Dataset