Sedges of the Forest Herbarium Ibadan (FHI) Nigeria

Occurrence
Version 1.3 published by Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria on Apr 11, 2019 Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Publication date:
11 April 2019
License:
CC-BY-NC 4.0

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Description

Forest Herbarium Ibadan (FHI) is a repository of about 101000 specimens of vascular plants and cryptograms mainly from all parts of Nigeria and some other parts of the world. Forest Herbarium Ibadan is located in Taxonomy Section of the Department of Forest Conservation and Protection at the Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, Ibadan. The sources of FHI materials are from Taxonomic activities such as collections during routine field exploration, flora projects and inventories. Other sources include specimens exchange from other herbaria (Nationally and Internationally), voucher specimen from scientists and research students and donations from private collectors. The objectives of FHI are to render Taxonomic services (Identification, Classification and Nomenclature), conserve and monitor the distribution and status of the flora of Nigeria through plant collection and botanical exploration of her regions and to encourage proper documentation of the flora. Today, FHI plays the role of a National herbarium in Nigeria. The dataset presently holds about 3187 records of sedges collected between 1906 – 2015, consisting of 32 Genera and 338 Species with at least 3130 images links.

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 3,187 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.

Versions

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How to cite

Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset.  Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Ugbogu O, Osiyemi O, Adeniji K, Odewo A, Okanlawo T, Soyewo T, Oyebola T, Chukwuma E, Aina S (2018): Sedges of the Forest Herbarium Ibadan (FHI) Nigeria. v1.3. Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/resource?r=sedges_forest_herbarium_ibadan-nigeria-2018&v=1.3

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 6297efc0-4442-4e8e-be58-1e0ca7729dac.  Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Nigeria.

Keywords

Sedges; Cyperaceae; Forest Herbarium Ibadan; Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Omokafe Ugbogu
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Director/Curator Forest Herbarium Ibadan (FHI)
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Jericho Hill, Dugbe
Ibadan
Oyo State
NG
+234 8032236876
Oluwaseun Osiyemi
  • Metadata Provider
  • Publisher
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Chief Research Scientist
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Jericho Hill, Dugbe
Ibadan
Oyo State
NG
+234 8023626443
Kehinde Adeniji
  • Originator
Principal Research Scientist
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Jericho Hill, Dugbe
Ibadan
Oyo State
NG
+234 7035081157
Akiniyi Odewo
  • Originator
Principal Research Scientist
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Jericho Hill, Dugbe
Ibadan
Oyo State
NG
+234 8060147257
Tolulope Okanlawo
  • Originator
Principal Research Scientist
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Jericho Hill, Dugbe
Ibadan
Oyo State
NG
+234 80181639776
Temitope Soyewo
  • Originator
Principal Research Officer
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Jericho Hill, Dugbe
Ibadan
Oyo State
NG
+234 8023626443
Temitope Oyebola
  • Originator
Principal Research Officer
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Jericho Hill, Dugbe
Ibadan
Oyo State
NG
+234 8033504751
Emmanuel Chukwuma
  • Originator
Senior Research Officer
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Jericho Hill, Dugbe
Ibadan
Oyo State
NG
+234 8060114367
Seyifunmi Aina
  • Originator
Research Officer I
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Jericho Hill, Dugbe
Ibadan
Oyo State
NG
+234 8109873896
Onokafe Ugbogu
  • Principal Investigator
Director/Curator Forest Herbarium Ibadan (FHI)
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Jericho Hill, Dugbe
Ibadan
Oyo State
NG
+234 8032236876
Marie-Elise Lecoq
  • Distributor
IT Engineer
GBIF France
FR
+33140798065

Geographic Coverage

Most of the sedges were collected from Nigeria and few from some other African countries, Asia, Europe, North and South America.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-52.483, -166.641], North East [69.163, 104.766]

Taxonomic Coverage

Plant specimens were identified to species or variety rank

Species Cyperus esculentus L., Mariscus alternifolius Vahl, Torulinium confertum Desv. ex Ham., Scleria boivinii Steud.
Subspecies Fimbristylis hispidula subsp. brachyphylla (Cherm.) Napper

Temporal Coverage

Living Time Period 1906-2015

Project Data

The objective of this project is to initiate mobilization of biodiversity data from Nigerian data holders, custodians, and institutions, estimated to hold more than 700,000 data records related to plants and animals within protected areas and likewise invasive, threatened and endemic species. While educating biodiversity data stakeholders across Nigeria on the benefits of biodiversity data mobilization and sharing, the project will also disseminate and demonstrate best practices for digitizing natural history collections through training workshops and thereby mobilize biodiversity data from Nigeria. Project activities will be coordinated by Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN) and executed in collaboration with project partners at Nigeria National Park Service, Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF), Nnadi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nasarawa State University, and University of Kansas. Through this project, previously undigitized data from herbarium/museum collections and species in the protected areas in each geo-ecological zone of Nigeria will be mobilized and shared through GBIF.org, complementing data that the Nigerian GBIF node is already mobilizing. In addition to helping policy makers prioritize conservation investments, the mobilized data will be used to identify potential habitats for threatened species, which in turn will aid park managers to focus long-term conservation efforts. The project is expected to increase capacity for biodiversity information management within the GBIF node in Nigeria.

Title Capacity Advancement for the Nigeria node of GBIF
Identifier BID-AF2017-0210-NAC
Funding The project was funded by European Union and GBIF. It was co funded by Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, Nigeria National Park Service, Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF), Nnadi Azikiwe University Awka and Nasarawa State University.
Study Area Description The project occurred in the six geoecological zones across Nigeria. The records mobilized are those of herbarium specimens, insect collections and animals in parks and protected areas across Nigeria.
Design Description In the research design, specimens were digitized directly into Darwin Core spreadsheet by project team. The data cleaning was done using OpenRefine software. In the process of digitization, Google Maps (GPS finder) was used for Georeferencing of localities on specimen’s records. Validation of taxonomic records was done using Global Names Resolver and other online resources. The goal of the research design is digitization of over 10000 biodiversity data and information on threatened species, invasive alien species and species in the protected areas in each geoecological zone in Nigeria

The personnel involved in the project:

Omokafe Ugbogu
  • Principal Investigator
Okedeji Okeyoyin
  • Curator
Joseph Onoja
  • Curator
Peter Nnabude
  • Curator
Zaccheaus Egbewole
  • Curator

Sampling Methods

Not applicable

Study Extent Not applicable

Method step description:

  1. Not applicable

Collection Data

Collection Name Sedges of the Forest Herbarium Ibadan (FHI) Nigeria
Specimen preservation methods Dried and pressed
Curatorial Units Count 3,178 +/- 0 Herbarium specimen sheets

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Google Maps 2018

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 6297efc0-4442-4e8e-be58-1e0ca7729dac
http://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/resource?r=sedges_forest_herbarium_ibadan-nigeria-2018