Description
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.
Enregistrements de données
Les données de cette ressource occurrence ont été publiées sous forme d'une Archive Darwin Core (Darwin Core Archive ou DwC-A), le format standard pour partager des données de biodiversité en tant qu'ensemble d'un ou plusieurs tableurs de données. Le tableur de données du cœur de standard (core) contient 101 enregistrements.
Cet IPT archive les données et sert donc de dépôt de données. Les données et métadonnées de la ressource sont disponibles pour téléchargement dans la section téléchargements. Le tableau des versions liste les autres versions de chaque ressource rendues disponibles de façon publique et permet de tracer les modifications apportées à la ressource au fil du temps.
Versions
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Comment citer
Les chercheurs doivent citer cette ressource comme suit:
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
Droits
Les chercheurs doivent respecter la déclaration de droits suivante:
L’éditeur et détenteur des droits de cette ressource est Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria. Ce travail est sous licence Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0.
Enregistrement GBIF
Cette ressource a été enregistrée sur le portail GBIF, et possède l'UUID GBIF suivante : e1e99083-3c9d-4d2a-af6d-5c4e2f8b1982. Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria publie cette ressource, et est enregistré dans le GBIF comme éditeur de données avec l'approbation du GBIF Nigeria.
Mots-clé
Occurrence; University of Calabar; Department of Plant and Ecological Studies Herbarium; Specimen; Observation
Contacts
- Fournisseur Des Métadonnées ●
- Auteur ●
- Créateur
- Lecturer II
- Dept. of Plant and Ecological Studies
- +234 8034683096
- Créateur ●
- Personne De Contact ●
- Chercheur Principal
- Research Professor/Curator Forest Herbarium Ibadan (FHI)
- Jericho Hill
- +234 8032236876
- Fournisseur Des Métadonnées ●
- Publicateur ●
- Créateur ●
- Personne De Contact
- Research Fellow
- Jericho Hill
- +234 8060114367
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4154-283X
Couverture géographique
The herbarium specimens were collected mostly from southern Nigeria.
| Enveloppe géographique | Sud Ouest [4,686, 2,747], Nord Est [8,483, 9,866] |
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Couverture taxonomique
Specimens were identified to either generic, species or variety rank.
| Genus | Vernonia Schreb. |
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| Species | Cyrtosperma senegalense (Schott) Engl., Schefflera arboricola (Hayata) Kanehira, 1936 |
| Variety | Holarrhena floribunda var. tomentella H.Huber |
Couverture temporelle
| Epoque de vie | 1980-2013 |
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Données sur le projet
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).
| Titre | Nigeria Node Mentoring |
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| Identifiant | CESP2018_012 |
| Financement | The project was funded by European Union and GBIF. |
| Description du domaine d'étude / de recherche | 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. |
| Description du design | 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. |
Les personnes impliquées dans le projet:
- Chercheur Principal
- Chercheur Principal
- Chercheur Principal
Méthodes d'échantillonnage
Not applicable
| Etendue de l'étude | Not applicable |
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| Contrôle qualité | Not applicable |
Description des étapes de la méthode:
- Not applicable
Données de collection
| Nom de la collection | Some collections of the Department of Plant and Ecological Studies Herbarium, University of Calabar |
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| Identifiant de collection | Not applicable |
| Identifiant de la collection parente | Not applicable |
| Méthode de conservation des spécimens | Dried and pressed |
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| Unités de conservation | Compteur 101 incertitude (+/-) 0 Herbarium specimen sheets |
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Métadonnées additionnelles
| Identifiants alternatifs | e1e99083-3c9d-4d2a-af6d-5c4e2f8b1982 |
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| http://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/resource?r=pes-herbarium-specimens |