Plant Diversity and Distribution on the Continental Cameroon Mountains

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 43,420 records.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Sainge, NM, Ngoh, ML, and Peterson, AT (2018) Plant Diversity and Distribution on the the Continental Cameroon Mountains. Tropical Plant Exploration Group (TroPEG), Cameroon.

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Tropical Plant Exploration Group (TroPEG), Cameroon. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 572a4f02-fae9-4052-a10d-03fecbeb18de.  Tropical Plant Exploration Group (TroPEG), Cameroon publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Cameroon.

Keywords

Occurrence; Rumpi Hills; Mbembe Forest Reserve

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

Northwest and Southwest Regions of Cameroon

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

Containing several distinct ecoregions designated as part of a biodiversity hotspot, Western Cameroon is home to numerous endemic and threatened plant and animal species. Although the country has established several protected areas in the region, the process has taken place in the absence of data-driven prioritization analyses due to lack of biodiversity data resources on which to base decision-making. In this project, a team led by the Tropical Plant Exploration Group (TroPEG) will seek to bolster data mobilization efforts to assemble a representative and comprehensive database of the plants in the region, with which to characterize and document endemism and threatened status. Significant holdings of primary botanical data have so far been held by individual scientists who worked in the region over recent decades, and by institutions that have not facilitated access to data associated with the specimens that they hold. This wealth of information, based on decades of collecting efforts represents a major challenge, as data exists, but is unused in the analysis of western Cameroonian biodiversity. An example of unaccessible data is the The Limbe Botanical Garden Herbarium (SCA), the only herbarium in the region, with approximately 7,400 high-quality botanical specimens from crucial sites across western Cameroon. Established about 100 years, the herbarium has been out of use by researchers and students for more than a decade. TroPEG itself, currently the sole institution with concentrated efforts on the plant biodiversity of Western Cameroon holds more than 40,000 data records. This project will concentrate effort on mobilizing this data while providing detailed training to potential students and biodiversity data managers in capturing and improving biodiversity data.

The personnel involved in the project:

Bibliographic Citations

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