Plant specific diversity in forest reserves and riparian areas of Benin

Roméo GBAGUIDI1

1 SOS Biodiversity, Bénin, Atlantique, Abomey-calavi, Benin

Corresponding author(s): Roméo GBAGUIDI (gbaguidiromeo@gmail.com)

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Resource Citation

GBO DOSSA F., GBAGUIDI R., LOKONON B., DEGBOE E., 2022. Plant specific diversity in forest reserves and riparian areas of Benin. SOS Biodiversity, Benin.

Abstract

The inventory was carried out in Benin forest reserves. Data were collected  through a random sampling. The collection method is observation. Data come from several inventories carried out in Benin.

Keywords: plant species, forest trees, Benin, Samplingevent

Project details

Project title: Data use to inform decisions on biodiversity conservation and public health in Benin 
Personnel: Jean Cossi GANGLO
Funding: The funding of this project is generously provided by European Union in the framework of Biodiversity Information for Development program managed by GBIF Secretariat.
Study area descriptions/descriptor: The data digitized and published in the framework of this project are gathered throughout the whole country with respect to the data needs to inform decisions in the three partner institutions.

Design description: The design is detailed according to the objectives of the project.
The initial planning phase will be achieved in the framework of workshops during which the consortium members and their collaborators, students, and supervisors of theses of the master program will be invited. The end-users from DGEFC, CENAGREF, and Hôpital Menontin will present their needs of information and the decisions they wish to support.
The needs of information will be reformulated into key questions to be answered with respect to the decisions to be supported so as to identify the possible information resources to be taken into account. They can be databases like GBIF, Vertnet, species links etc. Any other relevant sources of information (data holders, data users, resource persons etc.) will also be considered. This will result in a plan of data mobilization, data publication, and data uses to support decisions. This plan will be consolidated through partnership agreements between parties.
During data mobilization phase, taking into account the key questions to be answered, research topics will be identified and attributed to the students of the master program and other data users. Data will then be downloaded from GBIF, Vertenet, species links etc. and data gap analysis will be performed so as to find out the gaps of occurrences to be filled either from complementary field surveys, data holders, and literature reviews etc. Data collected to fill data gaps will be formatted, georeferenced, cleaned up, and published on GBIF site.
The evaluation process will be carried out in two phases: i) during the information development phase, under the umbrella of their supervisors and the advisor of the program, students will process data to provide relevant answers to the key questions in order to guide the intended decision making of the partners; ii) in an evaluation phase, the results obtained (answers to the key questions) will be scrutinized with respect to their adequacy to support the intended decisions of end-users and, whenever necessary, data mobilization and data analysis refinements will be reconsidered to provide more relevant answers to the key questions to support decisions.

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.gbifbenin.org/resource?r=gbaguidi2

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Plantae
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Plantae
Common names: Plante

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Species were collected in Benin, precisely in the reserves and riparian areas of Benin.
Coordinates: 9°58'43.38''N and 10°1'4.94''N Latitude; 1°12'34.13''E and 3°13'54.6''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: August 5, 2003 - December 31, 2015

Methods

Method step description: 1- Installation of plots
2- Identification of trees
3- Species determination
4- Taking measurements on trees
Study extent description: Benin, precisely in forest reserves and riparian areas of Benin.
Sampling description: The inventory was carried out in Benin forest reserves. Data were collected  through a random sampling. The collection method is observation. Data come from several inventories carried out in Benin.
Quality control description: The identification of the species was done at the National Herbarium of Benin

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Plant specific diversity in forest reserves and riparian areas of Benin
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.gbifbenin.org/archive.do?r=gbaguidi2
Publication date of data: 2022-06-17
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2022-06-17
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
De Souza S., 1988. Flore du Bénin (Tome 3).
Akoègninou A. et al., 2006. Flore analytique du Bénin.