Plants 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 38,398 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Asase, A. 2018. Digital-accessible-knowledge (DAK) of plants of Ghana.

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

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

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 480d9ab0-c682-4cd6-ba78-38cf9ef91087.  Ghana Herbarium publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ghana Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

Ghana

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Project Data

This dataset is on species of plants that have been recorded from Ghana. The dataset was compiled based on information obtained from different sources including herbarium collection, fieldnotes and literature.

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

This dataset was compiled based on specimen collections from major herbaria in Ghana, namely, Ghana Herbarium (GC) at the University of Ghana, Savanna Herbarium at the University for Development Studies, Herbarium at the RMSC of the Forestry Commission and Centre for Plant Medicine Research. The dataset also included data from available field notes and literature. The data were cleaned for both consistency and duplicate removed. However, nomenclature was not updated.

Method step description:

1. The Brahms software was used in digitisation of herbarium records. Data were cleaned using OpenRefine and QGIS for consistency and duplicates.

Bibliographic Citations

1. Asase, A. and Peterson, A. T., 2016. Completeness of Digital Accessible Knowledge of the Plants of Ghana. Biodiversity Informatics, 11: 1-11

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