Plant collections of Department of Botany Herbarium, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria

Dora Iortsuun1, Yahuza Tanimu1, Namadi Sanusi2, Omokafe Ugbogu3, Emmanuel Chukwuma3, Yahuza Tanimu4

1 Department of Botany, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria; 2 Department of Botany, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; 3 Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, Jericho Hill, Ibadan, Nigeria; 4 Department of Botany, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

Corresponding author(s): Dora Iortsuun (amoter2001@yahoo.com)Yahuza Tanimu (yahuzatanimu@gmail.com)Namadi Sanusi (habbida@gmail.com)Omokafe Ugbogu (omokafeugbogu@gmail.com)Emmanuel Chukwuma (chukwuma.ec@frin.gov.ng), Yahuza Tanimu (yahuzatanimu@gmail.com)

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Resource Citation

Iortsuun D, Tanimu Y, Sanusi N, Ugbogu O, Chukwuma E (2019): Plant collections of Department of Botany Herbarium, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. v1.1. Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/resource?r=abu_database&v=1.1

Abstract

The department of Botany, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, was established to educate academically sound upcoming plant biologists with high scholastic aptitudes especially in the agro-allied areas of Plant ecology, Plant Physiology, Plant Breeding and Plant Pathology, aspects of Horticulture and Conservation of Plant Germplasm. The department currently has an herbarium, established to aid plant identification for students and researchers within and outside the university community. It currently has a reasonable number of plant collections. The present dataset holds 492 records of preserved specimens collected between 1963 and 1991. It has 213 species which spreads across 54 families and 132 genera.

Keywords: Occurrence, Ahmadu Bello University, Herbarium, Specimen, Specimen

Project details

Project title: Nigeria Node Mentoring
Personnel: Omokafe Ugbogu, Jean Ganglo, Anne-Sophie Archambeau
Funding: The project was funded by European Union and GBIF.
Study area descriptions/descriptor: 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.
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 for the current project was to ensure the continued availability of Nigeria's biodiversity data via GBIF platform.

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/resource?r=abu_database

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Specimens were identified to either generic or species rank.
Taxonomic ranks
Species: Uvaria chamae P.Beauv., Annona senegalensis Pers.
Variety: Trapa natans var. bispinosa (Roxb.) Makino

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: 489 of the specimens were collected from Nigeria and mostly from the Northern states. There are also 2 collections from Cameroon and 1 from Niger.
Coordinates: 6°24'9.53''N and 16°12'52.83''N Latitude; 2°59'17.81''E and 13°55'50.39''E Longitude 

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: Not applicable
Collection name: Plant collections of Department of Botany Herbarium, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
Collection identifier: Not applicable
Living time period: 1963-1991
Specimen preservation method: Dried and pressed
Curatorial unit: 492 with an uncertainty of 0 (Herbarium specimen sheets)

Methods

Method step description: Not applicable
Study extent description: Not applicable
Sampling description: Not applicable
Quality control description: Not applicable

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Plant collections of Department of Botany Herbarium, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/archive.do?r=abu_database
Publication date of data: 2019-08-02
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2019-08-02
Hierarchy level: Dataset