Herbarium of the French Institute of Pondicherry

Pradeep Chandrasegarane1, Julien Andrieu1, Balasubramanian Dhandapani1, Srilatha Ramakrishnan1, Rameshkumar Kothandapani1, Jayakumar Djeabalane2, Ayyappan Narayanan2, Balachandran Natesan2, Dr. Padamnabhi Nagar3

1 French Institute of Pondicherry, 11, saint Louis street, 605001, PONDICHERRY, India; 2 French Institute of Pondicherry, ; 3 The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Municipal Shopping Centre, 32, Aurobindo Ghosh Rd, Opp. Pravasi Gruh, Near Railway Station, Sayajiganj,, 390002, Vadodara, India

Corresponding author(s): Pradeep Chandrasegarane (pradeep.c@ifpindia.org), Julien Andrieu (julien.andrieu@ifpindia.org)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Chandrasegarane P (2023): Herbarium of the French Institute of Pondicherry. v1.9. French Institute of Pondicherry. Dataset/Occurrence. 10.15468/un3c1t 10.15468/un3c1t

Abstract

This dataset represents the occurrences of plant species corresponding to the collection of the herbarium of the French Institute of Pondicherry (Institut Français de Pondichéry MEAE - CNRS).

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, Plants, India, Western Ghats, Natural History

Project details

Project title: Filling data gaps with the natural history collections of the Western Ghats
Personnel: Julien Andrieu, Pradeep Chandrasegarane, Ayyappan Narayanan, Balachandran Natesan, Balasubramanian Dhandapani, Srilatha Ramakrishnan, Rameshkumar Kothandapani, Jayakumar Djeabalane
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=ifp_herbarium

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: plantae

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Most of the occurrences are in India with a focus on the Western Ghats
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: January 1, 1847 - May 17, 2022

Natural collections description

Collection name: HIFP
Collection identifier: HIFP
Specimen preservation method: Dried and pressed

Methods

Method step description: 
- . 	Data capture: Manually typing the information from the herbarium sheets.
- . 	Image digitization: each sheet was scanned.
- . 	Geographical coordinates and inaccuracy in meters produced by "Geolocate".
- . 	Data curation using Excel and OpenRefine.
- . 	Identification validated by the Gbif Backbone Taxonomy.
- . 	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 Herbarium of the French Institute of Pondicherry
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.taibif.tw/archive.do?r=ifp_herbarium
Publication date of data: 2023-05-08
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2022-05-17
Hierarchy level: Dataset