Ecological and floristic study of Hirmi woodland vegetation in Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia

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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

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Addis Ababa University. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

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Occurrence; Observation

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Geographic Coverage

Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia

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Project Data

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.

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Bibliographic Citations

1. 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). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13717-020-00257-2

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