Description
Vegetation relevés were performed along a land use gradient (park – buffer zone – communal lands) at W Biosphere Reserve in Benin republic. Relevés were carried out using Braun-Blanquet Phytosociological approach from mi-September to mi-November of the year 2008 and 2009 corresponding to the period where the maximum plant species is in flower. Aster satellite images from 2007 were used to identify the main types of vegetation in which vegetation plots were installed. We set up a total of 121 stratified random plots. Trees and shrubs sampling was carried out in 30 m x 30 m plots while herbaceous layer composition were surveyed in subplots of 10 m x 10 m. These data were collected in the frame of our PhD study. From this study, a total of 5626 occurrences were recorded.
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 5,625 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Houessou G. Laurent, 2016. Plant Inventory of W Biosphere reserve (North-Benin). Laboratoire d'Ecologie Appliquée (LEA), Université d’Abomey-Calavi (UAC), Bénin.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is GBIF Benin. 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: 9b039d75-b613-40bd-9368-182f124be97c. GBIF Benin publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Benin.
Keywords
Occurrence; W Biosphere Reserve; protected area; Founougou; Benin
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Geographic Coverage
Vegetation relevés were performed along a land use gradient (park – buffer zone – communal lands) at W Biosphere Reserve in Benin republic. Relevés were carried out using Braun-Blanquet Phytosociological approach from mi-September to mi-November of the year 2008 and 2009 corresponding to the period where the maximum plant species is in flower. Aster satellite images from 2007 were used to identify the main types of vegetation in which vegetation plots were installed. We set up a total of 121 stratified random plots. Trees and shrubs sampling was carried out in 30 m x 30 m plots while herbaceous layer composition were surveyed in subplots of 10 m x 10 m. These data were collected in the frame of our PhD study. From this study, a total of 5626 occurrences were recorded.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [11.53, 2.31], North East [11.72, 2.72] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2008-09-01 / 2009-10-31 |
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Bibliographic Citations
- _ Akoègninou A., Van der Burg W.J., Van der Maesen L.J.G., Flore Analytique du Bénin. Herbier National du Bénin. 1034 pages; -Hutchinson J., Dalziel J.M., 1954. Flora of West Tropical Africa. Second édition, Vol. I. Part1; 295 pages; -Hutchinson J., Dalziel J.M., 1958. Flora of West Tropical Africa. Second édition, Vol. I. Part 2; 532 pages;
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| Alternative Identifiers | 9b039d75-b613-40bd-9368-182f124be97c |
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| http://ipt-benin.gbif.fr/resource?r=kakpo_n8 |