ABC Mungolwe Hills, Machinga Sampling Event data

Elizabeth Mwafongo1, Donald Mpalika1

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

Corresponding author(s): Elizabeth Mwafongo (emwafongo@yahoo.com), Donald Mpalika (dmpalika@yahoo.co.uk)

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Resource Citation

Mwafongo E (2018): ABC Mungolwe Hills, Machinga Sampling Event data. v1.2. National Herbarium & Botanic Gardens of Malawi. Dataset/Samplingevent. http://196.32.215.240:8081/ipt/resource?r=abc_mongolwehills_eventdata&v=1.2

Abstract

This dataset was generated from a day field trip to Mungolwe Hills, Machinga by National Herbarium & Botanic Gardens technical team to carry out plot sampling on these hills. The Hills are located opposite Malosa Mountain Forest reserve alon the road to Liwonde, Machinga.
Plot sampling was done along a defined transect on the hills using 10X10 plot size with a distance of 50m between plots. A 10X10m plot was chosen because of the difficult terrain in these mountains. The standard plot size is usually 50X50m. For each plot, the coordinates, altitude and the plant species present were recorded.

Keywords: Samplingevent, Mungolwe Hills, Machinga, Malawi

General description

Purpose: This data was collected as part of the day to day work for National Herbarium and Botanic Gardens of Malawi. There were a series of field trips to this area in 2005 and some are still existing as raw data. This data will be made available later as this process of publishing will be incorporated in our day to day activities.

Project details

Project title: The African Biodiversity Challenge: unlocking data for sustainable development
Personnel: Elizabeth Mwafongo, Donald Mpalika
Funding: JRS Biodiversity Foundation
Study area descriptions/descriptor: The area covered is the entire country, Malawi.

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

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: There are two classes represented here, Liliopsida and Magnoliopsida
Taxonomic ranks
Class: Magnoliopsida, Liliopsida

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The data was recorded from Mungolwe Hills, Machinga District, Malawi, Central Africa.
Coordinates: 15°11'38.4''S and 15°4'1.2''S Latitude; 35°15'57.6''E and 35°31'48''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: October 18, 2005

Methods

Method step description: A 10X10m quadrat was used as a standard quadrat in this exercise.
Study extent description: The study was carried out at Mungolwe hills, Machinga
Sampling description: A single transect was laid from the riverine forest area using a campus which assisted with directions of the transect. 10m by 10m quadrats were laid out along the transect at a distance of 50m between each transect. In each plot, coordinates and altitude were captured using a hand held GPS. This was done at the middle of each plot. In addition, plant species present within the quadrat were recorded.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive ABC Mungolwe Hills, Machinga Sampling Event data
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_mongolwehills_eventdata
Publication date of data: 2022-05-31
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-11-15
Hierarchy level: Dataset