Description
The Sahaj Path is an initiative by Mr. Prosenjit Dawn and Mr. Mantu Hait to conserve wetland biodiversity of Rural Howrah district in West Bengal, India. A part of the Damodar Floodland is maintained undisturbed as reserve for the wetland biodiversity, named Sahaj Path. Regular Biodiversity documentation of this area is done for last two years, and one Wetland Biodiversity Workshop and Nature Study Camp was organized on 29th Sept to 2nd October 2023. This dataset represents the Flora and Fauna observed and identified till date at least once from the study area. Most of the records are photographic and uploaded to iNaturalist under the Project 'Biodiversity of "Sahaj Path", Donki Wetlands'.
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 545 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.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Dawn P, Santra S, Nesha I, Hait M, Dhali D C, Dwari S, Chakraborty N, Laha S, Sarkar B, Sarkar S, Manna S, Adak S, Banerjee S, Das S, Das A, Panja A (2024). Biodiversity of "Sahaj Path", Donki Wetlands, Amta (2021-2024). Version 1.4. Eco Club, Shyampur Siddheswari Mahavidyalaya, Howrah. Occurrence dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=naturestudycamp_2023&v=1.4
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Eco Club, Shyampur Siddheswari Mahavidyalaya, Howrah. 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: c980f5fd-86f1-40f2-8f20-4ce31eb73cd9. Eco Club, Shyampur Siddheswari Mahavidyalaya, Howrah publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Occurrence; Amta; Sahaj Path; Donki Wetlands; Biodiversity; Howrah; Conservation; Observation
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact ●
- Principal Investigator
- Assistant Professor and Convener
- Belpukur, Ajodhya
- 09830335664
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- Content Provider ●
- Originator
- Researcher
- Belpukur, Ajodhya
- 07908728991
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- Belpukur, Ajodhya
- 09735554245
- Originator
- Proprietor
- Chetla
- 9433669080
- Originator
- Assistant Professor
- Belpukur, Ajodhya
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- Originator
- Assistant Teacher
- Amta
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- Guest Teacher
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- Belpukur, Ajodhya
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Geographic Coverage
The study area includes a floodland of Damodar river situated in the vicinity of Donki Village, Amta, Howrah, West Bengal, India. This is a lowland uninhabited by human but having mostly cropfields, waterbodies and irrigation canals. These lands generally remain submerged for nearly 6 months every years from september to January and act as major breeding site for indigenous fishes and reserve for other aquatic animals and plants including Freshwater Turtles.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [22.597, 87.998], North East [22.621, 88.023] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The dataset includes observations of fungi, plants and animals.
| Kingdom | Fungi, Plantae, Animalia |
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| Phylum | Marchantiophyta, Arthropoda, Chordata, Tracheophyta, Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, Arhtopoda |
| Class | Polypodiopsida, Tremellomycetes, Marchantiopsida, Arachnida, Liliopsida, Aves, Reptilia, Mammalia, Amphibia, Magnoliopsida, Actinopterygii, Insecta, Agaricomycetes, Pezizomycetes |
| Order | Cucurbitales, Squamata, Suliformes, Asterales, Hemiptera, Anseriformes, Ericales, Auriculariales, Solanales, Passeriformes, Pelecaniformes, Poales, Malpighiales, Gruiformes, Apodiformes, Boraginales, Lamiales, Carnivora, Caryophyllales, Neuroptera, Synbranchiformes, Rosales, Commelinales, Brassicales, Araneae, Sapindales, Agaricales, Gentianales, Lepidoptera, Orthroptera, Santalales, Diptera, Pezizales, Phallales, Cuculiformes, Polyporales, Alismatales, Anura, Mantodea, Ciconiiformes, Ceratophyllales, Myrtales, Accipitriformes, Cyprinodontiformes, Siluriformes, Anabantiformes, Coleoptera, Odonata, Malvales, Columbiformes, Charadriiformes, Tremellales, Cypriniformes, Marchantiales, Vitales, Psittaciformes, Caprimulgiformes, Fabales, Rodentia, Strigiformes, Piciformes, Coraciiformes, Oxalidales, Apiales, Salviniales |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2021-05-24 / 2024-03-07 |
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Project Data
This project is initiated to document the wetland biodiversity of the Floodlands of Howrah around the Sahaj Path, Amta. The primary goal is to keep track of the biodiversity resources year-round and monitor the dynamics.
| Title | Biodiversity of Sahaj Path, Donki Wetlands, Amta |
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| Identifier | EV-ASIA2024DM |
| Funding | Primarily a self funded project partially supported by Shyampur Siddheswari Mahavidyalaya for organizing Workshops and Nature Study Camps. |
| Study Area Description | Sahaj Path, Donki village is a low land that remain submerged nearly 6 months in a year during monsoon and post-monsoon. Part of the habitat is cultivated (Rice, Jute, Seasonal vegetables etc.), part of it is kept undisturbed and plantation of various native trees has been done. |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Custodian Steward
- Content Provider
Sampling Methods
No systematic sampling was done. Sampling were mostly opportunistic. Light traps were used for some insect observations, Traditional fishing gears were used for Fishes occasionally.
| Study Extent | The study was doen from 2021 to 2023 based on photographic documentations and human observations. |
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| Quality Control | Identification were confirmed only by the experts based on photographic evidences. In case of doubtful identifications individuals were identified only up to family or genus level. |
Method step description:
- Instruments used: Zeiss 10x32, Zeiss 8x42, Olympus 8x42 Binoculars; Nikon P900, Nikon D7000 with 105 mm macro lens. Methods: Field observations for most animals and plants substantiated by Photographic evidences. Techniques: As there was no systematic data collection, individual records for different flora and fauna were included in the dataset.
Additional Metadata
| Purpose | This dataset contains observation records of 300+ species of flora and fauna from the rural Wetland of Howrah district. The wetlands are severely threatened due to agricultural practices and other anthropogenic activities. This primary data can help researchers to plan their future research. We will have a baseline data to work on in upcoming years to understand the dynamics of biodiversity with time. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | c980f5fd-86f1-40f2-8f20-4ce31eb73cd9 |
| https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=naturestudycamp_2023 |