BARO Herbarium, The M.S University of Baroda

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 25,473 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.

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:

Nagar P, Raole V, Shah D, Andrieu J, Engineer R, Rajput K (2024): BARO Herbarium, The M.S University of Baroda. v1.8. BARO Herbarium, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.taibif.tw/resource?r=baro_herbarium&v=1.8

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is BARO Herbarium, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. 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: 0a5eec5f-ea21-4c00-b55a-9e5a5d336c3c.  BARO Herbarium, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

The occurrences in the dataset are from India, few from USA and Ceylon but mainly from the western Ghats of India.

Taxonomic Coverage

All vascular plants were identified to family, genus or species level.

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

Western Ghats is a unique mountain ecosystem comprised of different tropical forest and grassland landscapes that harbour high levels of biological diversity and endemism. Scientists from both the French Institute of Pondicherry and the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda have studied this global hotspot of biodiversity for decades, resulting in the collection of important data organized in as-yet inaccessible databases. The project team has curated and digitized herbarium specimens covering the whole of Western Ghats, producing a valuable asset for conservation science that serves as a precedent for other institutions to digitize and publish open data from their natural history collections.

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

The herbarium is a collection of botanical observations associated with sample collection and conservation. It has not been built with a precise sampling method but results instead of various methods put together.

Method step description:

1. 1. Data capture: Manually typing the information from the herbarium sheets. 2. Image digitization: each sheet was scanned. 3. Geographical coordinates and inaccuracy in meters produced by "Geolocate". 4. Data curation using Excel and OpenRefine. 5. Identification validated by the Gbif Backbone Taxonomy. 6. Dataset standardized and checked with the tool "Data Validator" of GBIF before publishing.

Collection Data

Additional Metadata