ABC_Useful Plants Of Malawi; Species targated for charcoal and firewood

Elizabeth Mwafongo1, Eliza Mwafongo2, Eliza Mwafongo3

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; 3 

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

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Abstract

The present list is an occurence dataset of plant species which are widely used as sources of fuel in Malawi.
Charcoal burning is becoming is a major driver of forest degradation in Malawi. Though the Ministry of Forestry and Natural resources has intensified clean-up operations to get rid of illegal possession, vending and transportation of charcoal and other forest produce are on the increase. This has led to degrease in species being targeted for these forestry products. 
The present list documents some of the species which are targeted by charcoal and firewood sellers and their distribution. This distribution is not exhaustive enough as it doesn’t cover the entire distributional range of these species. The current list represents only samples that have been digitized in BRAHMS database. Digitization of records is an ongoing process and this list will be improved as more data is entered in the database.

Keywords: Occurrence, Malawi, Charcoal, Firewood

Project details

Project title: Enhancing accessibility of biodiversity data in Malawi
Personnel: Elizabeth Mwafongo, Donald Mpalika
Funding: JRS Foundation
Study area descriptions/descriptor: The study area is Malawi and the goal of this project is to document all the biodiversity data in Malawi.
Design description: This project aims at mobilising biodiversity data from all data holders, digitize it to make it available online.

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

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: All species in this dataset were identified to species level and the list consists of members from 7 dicot families; Acanthaceae, Annonaceae,Combretaceae, Fabaceae,Meliaceae, Sapindaceae and Sterculiaceae
Taxonomic ranks
Family: Acanthaceae, Annonaceae, Combretaceae, Fabaceae, Meliaceae, Sapindaceae, Sterculiaceae

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: This is an occurrence dataset of plants used as fuel sources in Malawi
Coordinates: 16°58'22.8''S and 9°24'21.6''S Latitude; 32°54'54''E and 35°48'54''E Longitude 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive ABC_Useful Plants Of Malawi; Species targated for charcoal and firewood
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_usefulplantsofmalawi_charcoal_firewood
Publication date of data: 2022-05-31
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-09-03
Hierarchy level: Dataset