Checklist of trees and shrubs in Bukaleba forest reserve, Uganda

Data Records

The data in this checklist 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 95 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.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Barahukwa A, Namaganda M, Mbiro J, Mbiro A, Kaweesa S, Baltzer M, Davenport T, Howard P (2023). Checklist of trees and shrubs in Bukaleba forest reserve, Uganda. Version 1.0. A Rocha Uganda. Checklist dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/africa/resource?r=checklistoftreesandshrubsofbukalebaforestreserve&v=1.0

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is A Rocha Uganda. 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: 9865a3db-2f43-4a30-9c2d-7d61e5172726.  A Rocha Uganda publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Uganda.

Keywords

Checklist; Trees; Shrubs; Bukaleba Forest Reserve

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Geographic Coverage

The data were collected from Bukaleba forest reserve based on observation records.

Taxonomic Coverage

A total of 95 shrub and tree species were recorded and identified to species level.

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

A Rocha Uganda is part of the eleven organizations that came together to mobilize, share and use biodiversity data across four African countries to help with the conservation of four forested African landscapes. These landscapes cover over 450,000 hectares of tropical forests in four countries where the A Rocha family is undertaking conservation work. The project includes five of the organizations belonging to the A Rocha family (i.e., A Rocha Uganda, A Rocha International, A Rocha Kenya, Eden Care Initiative-Nigeria, and A Rocha Ghana) as partners. Other partner organizations include; National Museum of Kenya, African Butterfly Research Institute (ABRI), Kenya Wildlife Service, National Forest Authority in Uganda, Council for Scientific Industrial Research- Food Research Institute in Ghana and A.P Leventis Ornithological Research Institute in Nigeria. With funding from JRS Biodiversity Foundation and European Union (https://european-union.europa.eu/) through the Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) program of GBIF, a regional project “Raising the profile of data for the conservation of four forested African landscapes” was initiated and its seeking to utilize biodiversity data to better conserve biodiversity-rich but threatened forests of Atewa in Ghana; key coastal forests of Kenya (Dakatcha, Taita Hills, Shimba Hills and Kaya Forests); Kwande and Oban-liku in Nigeria and Eastern Uganda key forests (West Bugwe and Igwe-Luvunya, South Busoga, Bukaleba, Mabira, Mukono, Mpanga, Mpigi and Zika Forest Reserves). The dataset “Checklists of Trees and shrubs in Bukaleba forest reserve” reports data collected under a programme of Uganda Forest Department’s Natural Forest Conservation Section to undertake biodiversity surveys in 65 of Uganda’s forests.

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

While following a transect, the botanists observed broad patterns of species composition, so as to compile a ‘day list’ of the trees and shrubs encountered, together with an evaluation of abundance for each species using the DAFOR acronym (where D = Dominant; A = Abundant; F = Frequent; O = Occasional and R = Rare, see box below). Thus, the field records generated by each day’s fieldwork comprised a map showing the transect route taken, a corresponding list of species encountered and an abundance rating for each species. A broad definition of trees and shrubs has been used so as to include sub-shrubs and climbing/scrambling shrubs, but excluding woody climbers and woody herbs. Under this definition, 1251 species are known from Uganda, as listed by Howard (1994).

Method step description:

1. The national survey of Uganda forests collected data in 65 forests. The original field survey results including all data were published in a series of reports by the Forest Department of Uganda (Howard et al. 1996). The current dataset comprises records of trees and shrubs transected during this survey. We selected a sample of forests that had been surveyed in the Central and Eastern Regions of Uganda in order to digitize the data for GBIF. Electronic copies of the written reports and a separate electronic database of records were made available for this purpose by the original authors of the reports (Peter Howard). We extracted the records of trees and shrubs from the electronic database and supplemented these with location data provided in the narrative reports. The location data in the original reports were provided in Military Grid Reference System. These were first converted to standard UTM coordinates, noting that the MGRS was using an old datum (MGRS-AL scheme also called "MGRS old"). UTM coordinates were then converted to decimal degrees using an online conversion spreadsheet (https://giscrack.com/download-excel-template-convert-geographic-coordinates-utm/). The converted locations were then checked against Google Maps imagery to confirm that a satisfactory conversion had been made. Species records from each Forest Reserve were checked against the distribution maps in Carswell et al. (2005) and through expert assessment (J. Lindsell & Mary Namaganda) to ensure that no unsubstantiated or extralimital records were included.

Bibliographic Citations

1. Davenport, T., Howard, P., & Baltzer, M. (Eds.). (1996). Bukaleba and Mukono District Forest Reserve: Biodiversity Report no. 28. Forest Department, Kampala.
2. Eggeling, W. J. and Dale, I. R. (1952). The Indigenous Trees of the Uganda Protectorate. 491pp. Government Printer, Entebbe.
3. Hamilton, A. (1981). A Field Guide to Uganda Forest Trees. 279 pp. Makerere University Press, Kampala.
4. Howard, P. C. (1991). Nature Conservation in Uganda’s Tropical Forest Reserves. IUCN Gland, Switzerland.
5. Howard, P. C. and Davenport, T. R. B. (1996). Forest Biodiversity Reports, vols. 1–33. Uganda Forest Department, Kampala, Uganda.
6. Howard, P. C. (1994). An Annotated Checklist of Uganda’s Indigenous Trees and Shrubs. Uganda Forest Department, Kampala.
7. Langdale-Brown, I., Osmaston, H. A., and Wilson, J. G. (1964). The Vegetation of Uganda and Its Bearing on Land-use. 159 pp. Government Printer, Entebbe.
8. Polhill, R.M., Milne-Redhead, E., Turrill, W.B., and Hubbard, C.E. (from 1954). Flora of Tropical East Africa (in many parts). Crown Agents, London and Balkema, Rotterdam.

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