Vegetation survey of plant species within Manar estate region in the southern Nilgiris, India

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Gamuz A S, Madhavan A P (2026). Vegetation survey of plant species within Manar estate region in the southern Nilgiris, India. Version 1.1. Nature Conservation Foundation. Occurrence dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=ncf-nrp-manar-vegetation-2024&v=1.1

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Keywords

Occurrence; The Nilgiris; tropical montane evergreen forest; shola; mesic savanna; tropical dry deciduous forests; Western Ghats; plant diversity; Observation

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Geographic Coverage

Deciduous forests, patchy mesic savanna, semi-evergreen forests, and montane evergreen forests of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India, were surveyed. Surveyed locations spanned a wide elevation range from c. 500 m to c. 2200 m above sea level (CHECK)

Taxonomic Coverage

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Temporal Coverage

Project Data

Our research and restoration programme focuses on the region’s unique, biologically diverse forests and grasslands in The Nilgiris, Western Ghats, India. This is part of the Western Ghats program of the Nature Conservation Foundation, India.

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Sampling Methods

Plant species were recorded with 70 nested plots at the centre of 70 1-ha grids in the Manar estate region in the southern Nilgiris, India. At the scale of each of the 1-ha grids, the presence or absence of three invasive species, viz. Lantana camara, Chromolaena odorata and Solanum mauritianum, was recorded. At the centroid of each grid, adult trees trees (>=10 cm girth) were enumerated (taxonomic identity, girth and height) within a 20x20 m plot. At the centre of the 20x20 m plot, regenerating seedlings (>50 cm height and GBH <= 3.1cm (1 cm DBH)) and saplings (>=3.1 GBH to 30 cm GBH) were identified and counted within a 5x5 m plot. Trees that overtopped the 5x5m plot but were different from the individuals or species recorded in the 20x20m plot that circumambulated the 5x5m plot, were also recorded.

Method step description:

1. Data from multiple plot types were combined and R was used to prepare the data in CSV files according to the GBIF Darwin Core format.

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