Flora of South-Southern Nigeria Coastal Environments

Temitope Onuminya1, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe1, Victor Oroleke2

1 University of Lagos, DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, 23401, AKOKA, Nigeria; 2 University of Lagos, Department of Botany, 23401, Akoka, Nigeria

Corresponding author(s): Temitope Onuminya (tadeyemi@unilag.edu.ng)Oluwatoyin Ogundipe (oogundipe@unilag.edu.ng)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Onuminya T, Ogundipe O (2022): Flora of South-Southern Nigeria Coastal Environments. v1.2. University of Lagos. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/resource?r=ssflora&v=1.2

Abstract

This is an occurrence record of phytoplanktons and plants in the South-South zone of the Nigerian Coast.

Keywords: Occurrence, South-South, Nigeria, Coastal Environments, Phytoplankton, Higher Plants, Observation

Project details

Project title: Implementation of the Biodiversity Information and data System for Coastal Ecosystems in Nigeria - BID-AF2020-022-NAC
Personnel: Temitope Onuminya, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, Victor Oroleke
Funding: GBIF-BID Grant
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Nigerian Coastal Environments

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

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: The taxa represented span the Kingdom Protozoa, Chromista, Bacteria and Plantae
Taxonomic ranks
Phylum: Tracheophyta, Charophyta, Chlorophyta, Cyanobacteria, Euglenozoa, Myzozoa, Ochrophyta

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The record covers Delta, Edo, Rivers, Cross River, Bayelsa and Akwa-Ibom States within the south southern region of Nigeria.
Coordinates: 4°19'30''N and 6°21'32.4''N Latitude; 5°3'14.4''E and 9°2'31.2''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: January 1, 1990 - December 31, 2018

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Flora of South-Southern Nigeria Coastal Environments
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/archive.do?r=ssflora
Publication date of data: 2022-10-15
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2022-07-17
Hierarchy level: Dataset

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