Grass Collections from Ghana

Occurrence
Latest version published by Ghana Herbarium on Mar 8, 2021 Ghana Herbarium
Publication date:
8 March 2021
Published by:
Ghana Herbarium
License:
CC-BY-NC 4.0

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Description

This is the most comprehensive datasets on herbarium grass collections from Ghana. It includes 5498 specimen collections across Ghana. Data custodian is Prof. Alex Asase at the Department of Plant and Environmental Biology, University of Ghana.

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 5,496 records.

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Versions

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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Ghana Herbarium. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: f73b742f-69a5-4bb4-9423-53a172d95073.  Ghana Herbarium publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ghana Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Alex Asase
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • User
  • Point Of Contact
University of Ghana
P. O. Box LG 55
LG Accra
N/A
GH
0244128800

Geographic Coverage

Ghana

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Family Poceae

Project Data

This is the most comprehensive datasets on herbarium grass collections from Ghana. It includes 5498 specimen collections across Ghana. The project was also supported by the JRS Bioiversity Foundation. Data custodian is Prof. Alex Asase at the Department of Plant and Environmental Biology, University of Ghana.

Title Capacity enhancement for the Ghana node of GBIF
Identifier BID-AF2015-0032-NAC
Funding Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) funded by European Union
Study Area Description Ghana

The personnel involved in the project:

Alex Asase
  • Principal Investigator

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers f73b742f-69a5-4bb4-9423-53a172d95073
http://ipt-ghana.gbif.fr/resource?r=grasses_of_ghana