Description
During the Monsoon period as a part of Master’s dissertation project of Laboni Pal, under the guidance of respective faculty members, a study was conducted to document the entire floral diversity of the Ballygunge Science College Campus, which is situated in the middle of Kolkata, in a complete urban surroundings. Along with the floral documentation, dependence on various insects, specially butterflies were also observed.
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 213 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:
Pal L, Barman N, Basu Roy A, Chaudhuri P, Barve V (2023). An inventory of flora in Ballygunge Science College Campus, Kolkata, West Bengal. Version 1.2. Nature Mates-Nature Club. Occurrence dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=bsc_flora_nmnc&v=1.2
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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: 96006de0-a5cf-494a-bc7e-5dac5f232329. 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
- Metadata Provider
- Post Graduate Student
- 35,Ballygunge Circular Road
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3432-2078
- User
- Researcher
- Originator
- 6/7 Bijoygarh
- 09874357414
- Originator
- Assistant Professor
- 35,Ballygunge Circular Road
- Originator
- Research Advisor
- Metadata Provider
- Post graduate studen
- 35,Ballygunge Circular Road
- User
- Researcher
Geographic Coverage
The study was done at Ballygunge Science College campus, Kolkata, West Bengal.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [22.523, 88.359], North East [22.524, 88.36] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2022-07-01 / 2022-08-31 |
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Sampling Methods
Random sampling
| Study Extent | The study was conducted covering most of the plants available in the Ballygunge Science College campus during monsoon period. |
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Method step description:
- The entire campus was divided into 5 zones. All the plants were photographed and identified using applications and books. Note on abundance were also taken.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 96006de0-a5cf-494a-bc7e-5dac5f232329 |
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| https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=bsc_flora_nmnc |