Biodiversity description of the Crystal Mountains park National buffer zone

Sampling event
Version 1.1 published by Herbier National du Gabon on Mar 8, 2022 Herbier National du Gabon
Publication date:
8 March 2022
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CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Data are especially provided by Institut de Pharmacopée et de médecine traditionnelles (IPHAMETRA). Data from the 123 plots of 2500 m2 (31 ha) installed in the area which will host the national projet of hydroelectric dam building have been used. Trees with diameter at breast height (dbh) ≥ 10 cm was measured. The dbh is measured with a diametric tape at approximately 1.3 m from ground, avoiding lianas growing on the trunk or 30 cm above buttresses and stilt roots.

Data Records

The data in this sampling event 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 123 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Event (core)
123
Occurrence 
3805

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How to cite

Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset.  Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Engone Obiang N L (2022): Biodiversity description of the Crystal Mountains park National buffer zone. v1.1. Herbier National du Gabon. Dataset/Samplingevent. http://ipt-gabon.gbif.fr/resource?r=biodiversity_kinguele_aval&v=1.1

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Herbier National du Gabon. 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: 8be5d1f5-802e-4401-9c1c-2e01b67e252c.  Herbier National du Gabon publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Samplingevent; Biodiversity; kinguélé aval; Crystal Mountains; Gabon

Contacts

Nestor Laurier Engone Obiang
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Researcher
IPHAMETRA/CENAREST
Arboretum de Sibang
Libreville
Estuaire
GA
+24162461946
Nestor Laurier ENGONE OBIANG
  • Metadata Provider
  • Publisher
Researcher
IPHAMETRA/CENAREST
Arboretum de Sibang
Libreville
Estuaire
GA
+24162461946
Pulchérie Bissiengou
  • Metadata Provider
Resarcher
Herbier National du Gabon
BP 1156
Libreville
Puchérie Bissiengou
  • Publisher
Researcher
Herbier National du Gabon
BP 1156
Libreville
Estuaire
GA

Geographic Coverage

Data were collected in a buffer zone close to the Crystal Mountains National Park in Gabon

Bounding Coordinates South West [-4.04, 8.789], North East [2.46, 14.941]

Taxonomic Coverage

These data are inventory data from 123 plots that contain 9338 trees including 277 species, 187 genera and 54 families.

Family Achariaceae, Anacardiaceae, Anisophylleaceae, Annonaceae, Apocynaceae, Aptandraceae, Bignoniaceae, Burseraceae, Capparaceae, Chrysobalanaceae, Clusiaceae, Combretaceae, Cordiaceae, Coulaceae, Dichapetalaceae, Ebenaceae, Erythropalaceae, Erythroxylaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Fabaceae, Gentianaceae, Huaceae, Hypericaceae, Irvingiaceae, Ixonanthaceae, Lamiaceae, Lauraceae, Lecythidaceae, Malvaceae, Melastomataceae, Meliaceae, Moraceae, Myristicaceae, Myrtaceae, Ochnaceae, Octoknemaceae, Pandaceae, Passifloraceae, Peraceae, Phyllanthaceae, Putranjivaceae, Rhamnaceae, Rhizophoraceae, Rubiaceae, Rutaceae, Salicaceae, Sapindaceae, Sapotaceae, Simaroubaceae, Stemonuraceae, Strombosiaceae, Urticaceae, Violaceae, Vochysiaceae.

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2021-08-02 / 2021-09-01

Project Data

Gabonese biodiversity data are housed in several institutions and their availability is often problematic. To best support decision-makers and data users, data must be reliable and deliverable in appropriate formats. This requires a centralized, effective and easy-to-access database. In most African countries the few databases that exist are underused. For instance, specimen data are exploited by researchers only when they are planning field trips. As strategies to transmit relevant information on plant biodiversity to decision-makers are deficient, this project aims to mobilize biodiversity data and categorize them according to their utilization by local populations, their importance in conservation and their commercial use, in order to support their integration into policy and decision-making processes.

Title Mobilization and use of botanical data as decision-making tools in Gabon
Identifier BID-AF2020-194-USE
Funding BID, JRS

The personnel involved in the project:

Nestor Laurier Engone Obiang
Puchérie Bissiengou
  • Publisher
Raymonde Mboma
  • User
Martial-T Mba Nzuè
  • User
David Kenfack
  • Publisher
Tariq Stévart
  • User

Sampling Methods

Non-permanent plots of 50m x 50m (0.25 ha) were estabished

Study Extent Data were collected from project related to vegetation description and initial state of site of Kinguélé aval project
Quality Control BRAHMS were used for quality control. These data were of high quality because species identification in the field and confirmation were done by the Herbier national du Gabon botanists.

Method step description:

  1. The inventory was made in grids delimiting the contiguous plots of 2500 m2 (50 m x 50 m) characterized by an identifier which consists of a letter to indicate the position of the west-east line and a number which indicates the number of the south-north line. The geographical coordinates of all corners of the plots were recorded using GPS receiver. To characterize the floristic diversity of the study area, all trees with a diameter greater than or equal to 10 cm were recorded in each plot. These trees were then identified at the specific level. In case where identification of the tree could not be completed in the field, an herbarium samples were taken in order to confirm their determination at the National Herbarium of Gabon.

Bibliographic Citations

  1. • Sunderland, T., Walters, G., Issembe, 2004. Etude préliminaire de la végétation du parc national de Mbe, Monts de Cristal, Gabon. Rapport Carpé. • Balinga, M., Sunderland, T., Walters, G., Issembe, Y., Asaha, S., & Fombod, E. 2006. A vegetation assessment of the Waka national park, Gabon. CARPE report • Engone Obiang, N.L., Ngomanda, A., Mboma, R., Nzabi, T., Ngoye, A., Atsima, L., Ndjélé, L., Mate, J.-P., Lomba, C., & Picard, N. 2010. Spatial pattern of central African rainforests can be predicted from average tree size. Oikos 119 : 1643–1653

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