Description
The Department (formerly Department of Botany) was officially opened in 1957, and includes the Herbarium established in 1945 and the Botanic garden in 1946. Over the years, it has developed staff expertise in Ecology, Taxonomy and Systematics, Curation and Herbaria, Physiology, Genetics,Plant Pathology, Microbiology (Bacteriology, Mycology and Virology), Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Ethnobotany, Ethnopharmacology and Conservation Biology. Acacia senegal has the potential to improve socioeconomic and ecological opportunities of the communities in which it occurs. In Uganda, gum production from A. senegal can play an important role in improving livelihoods. IFS funded this study that aimed at mapping A. senegal in northern Uganda as well understanding the regeneration status of A. senegal. Data reported here was collected from plots measuring 20x20 established along 1km transects.
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 20 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:
Bulafu C (2018): Makarere University, Department of Plant Science, Microbiology and Biotechnology. v1. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=mhu_herbarium
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Makarere University, Department of Plant Science, Microbiology and Biotechnology. 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: fe3265d6-8723-4753-800b-ca1850d66d3c. Makarere University, Department of Plant Science, Microbiology and Biotechnology publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Uganda.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact ●
- Principal Investigator
Geographic Coverage
Uganda
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-1.472, 29.487], North East [4.303, 35.002] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
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Project Data
The project aimed at equipping data holders with skills and tools to enable them prepare their data using common tools and standards and ultimately publish their data, and associated data papers, on UGABIF and GBIF thus ensuring effective discovery and reuse. Data on plant species in protected forest reserves, invasive species, endemic and endangered species were targeted.
| Title | Mobilising plant biodiversity data in Uganda through training |
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| Identifier | BID-AF2015-0139-SMA |
| Funding | Funding for the publication of this dataset was provided by the GBIF BID Programme, BID-AF2015-0139-SMA. Funding for the field work was provided by IFS, D_31647 |
| Study Area Description | The study was carried out in nine districts covering the entire distributional range of Acacia senegal. |
| Design Description | To assess the diversity and population status of woody species, plots of 20x20 m established at 50m intervals along 1km transects were be used. Within each plot, the number of A. senegal as well as other woody tree species were identified, enumerated and diameter at breast height (DBH cm) measured to establish the density and basal area. Regeneration of A.senegal was assessed by measuring its seedlings in 1x1m plots established at the four corners of the 20x20 m plots Canopy cover was measured using hemispherical photography. Climatic variable were harvested from the world clim-5 climatic database. |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Principal Investigator
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | fe3265d6-8723-4753-800b-ca1850d66d3c |
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| http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=mhu_herbarium |