Occurrence dataset for plant species in Banabitan Biodiversity Park(Central Park), North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India

Occurrence Observation
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Description

The Occurrence dataset for plant species in Banabitan Biodiversity Park(Central Park), North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India is published by Nature Mates Nature Club. Banabitan is an urbanized park located in the centre of Salt Lake City, is the second largest park in Kolkata. It is maintained under the Urban Recreation Forestry Division, Directorate of Forest, Government of West Bengal. Presently it encompasses a total area of around 65 acres , of which 46acers are land mass and the remaining 19 acres are a water body located in the centre of the park. Urban ecosystems depend on land usage and other multiple factors. With the increase in urbanization parks, gardens inside the city play a very important role in maintain natural vegetation and sustaining its biodiversity. Large areas covered with trees are a good habitat for avian diversity. For this reason Banabitan (Central Park) which is surrounded by large trees and diverse species of herbs and shrubs along with a water body situated at the centre of the park which is partially covered with Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes). This dataset enlists all the plant species in Banabitan. There are 390 plant species that were recorded belonging to 42 orders and 95 families in the span of one year. We are thankful to the forest department for giving us the opportunity to work at Banabitan since long. The respected CF, and DFO sirs of Urban Recreation Forestry Division are specially mentioned here for their unconditional support and guidance.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence 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 390 records.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Biswas S, Baidya S, Roy C, Basu Roy A, Barve V (2023). Occurrence dataset for plant species in Banabitan Biodiversity Park(Central Park), North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India. Version 1.5. Nature Mates-Nature Club. Occurrence dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=banabitanplant_2017&v=1.5

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Nature Mates-Nature Club. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: c67614a1-efe8-4362-bcf4-e26a89fe8110.  Nature Mates-Nature Club publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation

Contacts

Swapna Biswas
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West Bengal
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Geographic Coverage

The Occurrence dataset for plant species in Banabitan Biodiversity Park(Central Park), North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India

Bounding Coordinates South West [22.584, 88.413], North East [22.591, 88.421]

Taxonomic Coverage

This dataset enlists all the plant species in Banabitan. There are 390 plant species that were recorded belonging to 42 orders and 95 families in the span of one year.

Kingdom Plantae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2021-01-01 / 2021-12-31

Sampling Methods

The data was collected by field survey from the trails in the park. With the help of collected sample like leaf, seeds, flower, etc and pictorial documentation, the plants of the study area were identified to their taxonomic positions.

Study Extent The study was carried out in Banabitan (Central Park), North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India

Method step description:

  1. Direct observation, Field notes, Photography

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Basu Roy A, Chatterjee L, Roy C, Basu Roy R, Samanta T, Sengupta N, Barve V (2023). Avifaunal diversity study of Banabitan, Bidhanagar, 2018. Nature Mates-Nature Club. Sampling event dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/4mh59b accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-07-09.
  2. "SEASONAL STUDY OF AVIAN BIODIVERSITY AT BANABITAN (CENTRAL PARK), KOLKATA, INDIA", IJRAR - International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews (IJRAR), E-ISSN 2348-1269, P- ISSN 2349-5138, Volume.9, Issue 3, Page No pp.747-756, September 2022, Available at : http://www.ijrar.org/IJRAR22C2823.pdf

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers c67614a1-efe8-4362-bcf4-e26a89fe8110
https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=banabitanplant_2017