e1e99083-3c9d-4d2a-af6d-5c4e2f8b1982
http://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/resource?r=pes-herbarium-specimens
Some collections of the Department of Plant and Ecological Studies Herbarium, University of Calabar
Patrick
Akwaji
University of Calabar
Lecturer II
Dept. of Plant and Ecological Studies
Calabar
Cross River State
NG
+234 8034683096
akwajiisnever@gmail.com
Omokafe
Ugbogu
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Research Professor/Curator Forest Herbarium Ibadan (FHI)
Jericho Hill
Ibadan
Oyo State
NG
+234 8032236876
omokafeugbogu@yahoo.com
Emmanuel
Chukwuma
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Research Fellow
Jericho Hill
Ibadan
Oyo State
NG
+234 8060114367
chukwuma.ec@frin.gov.ng
0000-0002-4154-283X
Emmanuel
Chukwuma
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Research Fellow
Jericho Hill
Ibadan
Oyo State
NG
+234 8060114367
chukwuma.ec@frin.gov.ng
0000-0002-4154-283X
Patrick
Akwaji
University of Calabar
Lecturer II
Dept. of Plant and Ecological Studies
Calabar
Cross River State
NG
+234 8034683096
akwajiisnever@gmail.com
Patrick
Akwaji
University of Calabar
Lecturer II
Dept. of Plant and Ecological Studies
Calabar
Cross River State
NG
+234 8034683096
akwajiisnever@gmail.com
author
Omokafe
Ugbogu
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Research Professor/Curator Forest Herbarium Ibadan (FHI)
Jericho Hill
Ibadan
Oyo State
NG
+234 8032236876
omokafeugbogu@yahoo.com
principalInvestigator
Emmanuel
Chukwuma
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Research Fellow
Jericho Hill
Ibadan
Oyo State
NG
+234 8060114367
chukwuma.ec@frin.gov.ng
0000-0002-4154-283X
publisher
Marie-Elise
Lecoq
GBIF France
IT Engineer
FR
+33140798065
melecoq@gbif.fr
distributor
2019-07-13
eng
The department of Plant and Ecological Studies had existed as a unit from establishment of the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Nigeria, Calabar campus in 1973/1974 academic session. The Plant and Ecological Studies programme continued as a unit within the Department of Biological Sciences with the establishment of the University of Calabaron October 1, 1975. In April 2001, the Department of Biological Sciences was split into four autonomous departments, Plant and Ecological Studies, Genetics and Biotechnology, Microbiology and Zoology/Environmental Biology. The Plant and Ecological Studies programme is designed to achieve excellence in research and training in all activities relating to the use of plants with special focus on the following fields: Phytopathology (Mycology/Plant Virology option), Plant Physiology/Plant Biochemistry, Plant Ecology, Plant Taxonomy, and Ethnobotany. The department currently has an herbarium, which was established during the 1979/1980 Academic session to aid plant identification for students and researchers within the university community and its environs. It has since then, been in existence with a reasonable collection of plant species and number of supporting staff headed by a curator. The present dataset holds 101 records of preserved specimens collected between 1980 and 2013. It has 100 species in 13 families and 82 genera.
Occurrence
University of Calabar
Department of Plant and Ecological Studies Herbarium
Specimen
GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml
Observation
GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.
The herbarium specimens were collected mostly from southern Nigeria.
2.747
9.866
8.483
4.686
Specimens were identified to either generic, species or variety rank.
species
Cyrtosperma senegalense (Schott) Engl.
species
Schefflera arboricola (Hayata) Kanehira, 1936
genus
Vernonia Schreb.
variety
Holarrhena floribunda var. tomentella H.Huber
unkown
Emmanuel
Chukwuma
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Research Fellow
Jericho Hill
Ibadan
Oyo State
NG
+234 8060114367
chukwuma.ec@frin.gov.ng
0000-0002-4154-283X
Omokafe
Ugbogu
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Research Professor/Curator Forest Herbarium Ibadan (FHI)
Jericho Hill
Ibadan
Oyo State
NG
+234 8032236876
omokafeugbogu@yahoo.com
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Nigeria Node Mentoring
Omokafe
Ugbogu
principalInvestigator
Jean
Ganglo
principalInvestigator
Anne-Sophie
Archambeau
principalInvestigator
National partner’s requirements will be identified and addressed in the implementation process of mentoring the Nigerian Node. NgBIF will consider the national strategy to strengthen biological collections. The mentoring process was carried out by Benin and France GBIF with some Nigerian partners of the project, in order to learn more about governance issues, data publishing processes in the international GBIF platform, and incentives to the publisher. The mentoring processes evaluated contents to be addressed during meetings, the focus and themes, as well as other logistical matters. The National participants were prepared in such a way that the Nigerian Node will replicate these activities and exercises with other national actors, so that the Nigerian Node will have a sustainable team for the Node.In the BID project, the Nigerian node was established but the node still required the experiences of another node to mentor us for smooth running of the NgBIF. Furthermore, the Capacity self-assessments for national biodiversity information facilities clearly indicated that the node lacked the knowledge and capacity to operate fully in bringing national data holders in managing their data, promote incentives for data publishing, lacked feedback mechanism in place for assessment. The strategy for the node and biodiversity information is still without stable funding. BID project is working with partners from South West, South East and North Central without website to support user community,while this project was expanded to a wider region, the North West – Zaria (Ahmadu Bello University).
The project was funded by European Union and GBIF.
The current project was extended to a wider audience and trainings were replicated in Southern and Northern Nigeria. These were held at the Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, Ibadan, Southwestern Nigeria, and Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in the North West. Participants were drawn from the six eco-geographical zones across Nigeria. Records mobilized for the training were those of herbarium collections and animal data.
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 for the current project was to ensure the continued availability of Nigeria's biodiversity data via GBIF platform.
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dataset
Akwaji P, Ugbogu O, Chukwuma E (2019): Some collections of the Department of Plant and Ecological Studies Herbarium, University of Calabar. v1.1. Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/resource?r=pes-herbarium-specimens&v=1.1
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Some collections of the Department of Plant and Ecological Studies Herbarium, University of Calabar
driedAndPressed
1980-2013
Herbarium specimen sheets
101
e1e99083-3c9d-4d2a-af6d-5c4e2f8b1982/v1.1.xml