https://cloud.gbif.org/africa/resource?r=ecological_and_floristic Mehari Girmay Gullele Botanic Garden

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0000-0002-4688-4134 Paul Braun National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg Digital Curator

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paul.braun@mnhn.lu 0000-0002-3620-6188 2025-05-07 eng This dataset comprises species occurrence data collected for the study by Girmay et al. (2020), titled "Ecological and floristic study of Hirmi woodland vegetation in Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia" published in Ecological Processes (DOI: 10.1186/s13717-020-00257-2).As part of the study, vegetation and environmental data were gathered from 80 main sampling plots, each measuring 25 m × 25 m. Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml Observation GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html CC-BY-4.0 https://gbif-staging.mnhn.lu/ipt/archive.do?r=ethiopiatest Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia 38.249 38.38 14.025 13.907 2018-11-20 2018-11-25 kingdom Plantae Plants unknown Mehari Girmay Gullele Botanic Garden

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0000-0002-4688-4134 Veronika Johansson pointOfContact Biodiversity is crucial for maintaining a healthy environment, ensuring food security, and building resilience, especially in developing countries such as Ethiopia. Rich in biodiversity and traditional farming systems, Ethiopia hosts the Eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot as well as the Horn of Africa biodiversity hotspot, which are critical for the Arabica coffee wild gene pool, but one of the least developed globally. Conserving biodiversity in Ethiopia requires robust evidence, skills, and policies, and quality data production and effective mobilization to data aggregators like GBIF are essential. The biodiversity data in Ethiopia is available in fragmented forms across various institutions, limiting access, especially for policymakers and practitioners. This bottleneck is largely due to the need for skills in developing and managing databases and making data available in an integrated manner at national, regional, and global scales. In addition, there is a shortage of analytical skills in producing quality scientific data and knowledge. This project aims to extend the work initiated in 2017 by the EU-funded GBIF Biodiversity Information for Development project BIDERSE and to address challenges by providing capacity-building training and knowledge transfer, enabling stakeholders to mobilize, manage, and use data according to global best practices. The key stakeholders identified for establishing a national biodiversity platform will act as a basis for this initiative. The study was supported by Rufford small grant (British foundation) and Addis Ababa University 2025-03-06T15:29:23.732+00:00 dataset Girmay M, Braun P (2025). Ecological and floristic study of Hirmi woodland vegetation in Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia. Version 1.0. Addis Ababa University. Occurrence dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/africa/resource?r=ecological_and_floristic&v=1.0 Girmay, M., Bekele, T., Demissew, S. et al. Ecological and floristic study of Hirmi woodland vegetation in Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia. Ecol Process 9, 53 (2020). Ecological and floristic study of Hirmi woodland vegetation in Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia Research Article https://doi.org/10.1186/s13717-020-00257-2