Forest species found in southern Benin

Occurrence
Latest version published by Faculté des Sciences et Techniques (FAST) on Jan 19, 2024 Faculté des Sciences et Techniques (FAST)
Publication date:
19 January 2024
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

This dataset is about some forest plant species found in southern Benin.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 71 records.

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Dossouhoui A, Vignon F, Pede M (2024). Forest species found in southern Benin

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Faculté des Sciences et Techniques (FAST). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: c2e1d087-c6b0-444a-b6d9-c0bdfa3b2d02.  Faculté des Sciences et Techniques (FAST) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Benin.

Keywords

Forest species; South; Benin; Observation

Contacts

Albert DOSSOUHOUI
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Researcher
FAST
00229 Abomey-calavi
Atlantique
BJ
  • 22997223649
Francis VIGNON
  • Point Of Contact
FAST
00229 Abomey-calavi
Atlantique
  • 22994567271
Gorgias AIKPON
  • Curator
  • Assistant research
Laboratory of Forest Sciences
00229 Abomey-calavi
Atlantique
BJ
  • 0022961450451

Geographic Coverage

Southern Benin

Bounding Coordinates South West [6.963, 2.173], North East [6.984, 2.182]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2023-05-25 / 2023-10-28

Project Data

No Description available

Title Forest species found in southern Benin
Funding Internal funds allocated to data collection
Study Area Description Southern Benin is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, with around 120 km of coastline. The climate is sub-equatorial, hot and humid.

Sampling Methods

Data were collected along transects.

Study Extent Southern Benin
Quality Control Step Description *

Method step description:

  1. Field data collection via transects Data analysis and cleansing with an Excel spreadsheet Data formatting according to "Darwin Core" terms

Additional Metadata