ABC_Njarayankhunda Nyika 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)

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Abstract

The present dataset is a list of species recorded in quadrant sampling event which was carried out as part of a NORAD funded project which took place from 14- 25AP April 2006 by Augustine J. Salubeni, Donald B. Mpalika and Packson B. Nansongole.

Keywords: Occurrence

General description

Additional information: The coordinates were originally in degrees, Minutes and seconds and were converted using web tool designed by Montana State University (http://www.rcn.montana.edu/resources/converter.aspx)

Project details

Project title: Enhancing accessibility of biodiversity data in Malawi
Personnel: Elizabeth Mwafongo, Donald Mpalika
Funding: JRS Biodiversity Foundation.
Study area descriptions/descriptor: The area under study is Nyika National Park, Malawi, Central Africa
Design description: Spatial data on plants will be mobilised and converted into electronic formats and later on into Darwin Core format ready for publication on GBIF website. Since Malawi is a GBIF node, the Data sets  will be hosted by National Commision of Science and Technology which is the the node for GBIF.

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

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The data was collected around Njarankhunda area in Nyika Plateau Rumphi district in Malawi.
Coordinates: 10°15'0''S and 9°50'52.8''S Latitude; 33°21'10.8''E and 33°51'25.2''E Longitude 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive ABC_Njarayankhunda Nyika 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=njarayankhunda_nyika_abcproject
Publication date of data: 2022-05-31
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-10-04
Hierarchy level: Dataset