Descripción
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.
Registros
Los datos en este recurso de registros biológicos han sido publicados como Archivo Darwin Core(DwC-A), el cual es un formato estándar para compartir datos de biodiversidad como un conjunto de una o más tablas de datos. La tabla de datos del core contiene 101 registros.
Este IPT archiva los datos y, por lo tanto, sirve como repositorio de datos. Los datos y los metadatos del recurso están disponibles para su descarga en la sección descargas. La tabla versiones enumera otras versiones del recurso que se han puesto a disposición del público y permite seguir los cambios realizados en el recurso a lo largo del tiempo.
Versiones
La siguiente tabla muestra sólo las versiones publicadas del recurso que son de acceso público.
¿Cómo referenciar?
Los usuarios deben citar este trabajo de la siguiente manera:
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
Derechos
Los usuarios deben respetar los siguientes derechos de uso:
El publicador y propietario de los derechos de este trabajo es Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria. Esta obra está bajo una licencia Creative Commons de Atribución/Reconocimiento-NoComercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0).
Registro GBIF
Este recurso ha sido registrado en GBIF con el siguiente UUID: e1e99083-3c9d-4d2a-af6d-5c4e2f8b1982. Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria publica este recurso y está registrado en GBIF como un publicador de datos avalado por GBIF Nigeria.
Palabras clave
Occurrence; University of Calabar; Department of Plant and Ecological Studies Herbarium; Specimen; Observation
Contactos
- Proveedor De Los Metadatos ●
- Autor ●
- Originador
- Originador ●
- Punto De Contacto ●
- Investigador Principal
- Proveedor De Los Metadatos ●
- Publicador ●
- Originador ●
- Punto De Contacto
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4154-283X
Cobertura geográfica
The herbarium specimens were collected mostly from southern Nigeria.
| Coordenadas límite | Latitud Mínima Longitud Mínima [4,686, 2,747], Latitud Máxima Longitud Máxima [8,483, 9,866] |
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Cobertura taxonómica
Specimens were identified to either generic, species or variety rank.
| Género | Vernonia Schreb. |
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| Especie | Cyrtosperma senegalense (Schott) Engl., Schefflera arboricola (Hayata) Kanehira, 1936 |
| Variedad | Holarrhena floribunda var. tomentella H.Huber |
Cobertura temporal
| Época de existencia | 1980-2013 |
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Datos del proyecto
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).
| Título | Nigeria Node Mentoring |
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| Identificador | CESP2018_012 |
| Fuentes de Financiación | The project was funded by European Union and GBIF. |
| Descripción del área de estudio | 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. |
| Descripción del diseño | 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. |
Personas asociadas al proyecto:
- Investigador Principal
- Investigador Principal
- Investigador Principal
Métodos de muestreo
Not applicable
| Área de Estudio | Not applicable |
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| Control de Calidad | Not applicable |
Descripción de la metodología paso a paso:
- Not applicable
Datos de la colección
| Nombre de la Colección | Some collections of the Department of Plant and Ecological Studies Herbarium, University of Calabar |
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| Identificador de la Colección | Not applicable |
| Identificador de la Colección Parental | Not applicable |
| Métodos de preservación de los ejemplares | Secado y prensado |
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| Unidades curatoriales | Conteo 101 +/- 0 Herbarium specimen sheets |
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Metadatos adicionales
| Identificadores alternativos | e1e99083-3c9d-4d2a-af6d-5c4e2f8b1982 |
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| http://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/resource?r=pes-herbarium-specimens |