BARO Herbarium, The M.S University of Baroda

Padamnabhi Nagar1, Vinay Raole1, Dharmendra Shah1, Julien Andrieu2, Riya Engineer1, Krishna Rajput1

1 The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Municipal Shopping Centre, 32, Aurobindo Ghosh Rd, Opp. Pravasi Gruh, Near Railway Station, Sayajiganj, Vadodara, Gujarat 390002, 390002, Vadodara, India; 2 IFP, 11, saint Louis street Pondicherry 605001, 605001, Pondicherry, India

Corresponding author(s): Padamnabhi Nagar (padamnabhi.nagar-botany@msubaroda.ac.in)Vinay Raole (vinay.raole-botany@msubaroda.ac.in)Dharmendra Shah (baro.herbarium-botany@msubaroda.ac.in)Julien Andrieu (julien.andrieu@ifpindia.org)Riya Engineer (baro.herbarium-botany@msubaroda.ac.in)Krishna Rajput (baro.herbarium-botany@msubaroda.ac.in)

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Resource Citation

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

Abstract

This dataset represents the occurrence of plant species corresponding to the collection of BARO herbarium. The collection comprises of various specimens across the plant kingdom including Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and mainly Angiosperms.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

Project details

Project title: Filling data gaps with the natural history collections of the Western Ghats
Personnel: Dr.Padamnabhi Nagar, Julien Andrieu, Riya Engineer, Krishna Rajput
Funding: https://www.env.go.jp/en
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Study area covers whole of India, mainly Western Ghats.
Design description: The collection from the herbarium results from various sampling methods.

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.taibif.tw/resource?r=baro_herbarium

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: All vascular plants were identified to family, genus or species level.
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Plantae
Common names: Plants

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The occurrences in the dataset are from India, few from USA and Ceylon but mainly from the western Ghats of India.
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: February 4, 1892 - December 28, 2018

Natural collections description

Collection name: BARO Herbarium
Specimen preservation method: Dried and pressed

Methods

Method step description: 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.
Study extent description: India, mainly Western Ghats.
Sampling description: 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.
Quality control description: The identification has been realized and checked by trained botanists. The dataset has been curated as per Gbif recommendations.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive BARO Herbarium, The M.S University of Baroda
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.taibif.tw/archive.do?r=baro_herbarium
Publication date of data: 2024-01-25
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2023-02-10
Hierarchy level: Dataset