Description
The present dataset is documentation of the plant diversity of Santragachi Jheel (significant for migratory ducks) in Howrah district, West Bengal, India published by Nature Mates-Nature Club. West Bengal comprises many large and small water bodies which are bestowed with diverse aquatic flora and fauna. Santragachi Jheel is one such water body covering an area of about 12.75 hectares which has gained popularity as a visiting place for many migratory birds from trans-Himalayan, and some local migrants during winter. The length of the jheel is about 915 m. and width 305 m, depth varies from 4 to 7 ft. This Jheel is surrounded on all sides by human habitation including railway quarters, shops, railway yard, industrial units, domestic and commercial cattle shed. The main aquatic vegetation of the lake is the Water Hyacinth(Eichhornia crassipes). As a result of the unscheduled and excessive removal of Water Hyacinth in 2018, the bird population dropped as low as 800. In response to this inconvenience, a lake restoration effort was crowdfunded in 2019 by volunteers and the Kolkata-based NGO Nature Mates-Nature Club. Even though only half of the lake was restored due to the delayed response, the count increased threefold in the lake. With the help of the West Bengal Biodiversity Board, Nature Mates-Nature Club successfully finished the restoration process in 2020. As a result, this year in Santragachi, almost 5100 birds from 16 genera, including four species of Trans-Himalayan Migrators, were seen. This dataset specifically includes all the Plant species recorded in a span of one year (2021-2022) in and around Santragachi Jheel. All the species were identified up to the species or genus level. A total of 89 species of plants were recorded belonging to 41 families and 22 orders.
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 89 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:
Biswas S, Basu Roy A, Samanta T, Chatterjee L, Sengupta N, Barve V (2024). Documentation of Plant Diversity of Santragachi Jheel(significant for migratory ducks), Howrah, West Bengal, India. Version 1.2. Nature Mates-Nature Club. Occurrence dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=plant-santragachi&v=1.2
Rights
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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: fb0e3f03-d779-42f0-ad06-d8c71c6d1871. 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; plants; diversity; Santragachi Jheel
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Geographic Coverage
West Bengal comprises many large and small water bodies which are bestowed with diverse aquatic flora and fauna. Santragachi jheel is one such water body covering an area of about 12.75 hectares which has gained its popularity as a visiting place for many migratory birds from trans himalayan, and some local migrants during winter. The length of the jheel is about 915 m. and width 305 m, depth varies from 4 to 7 ft. This Jheel is surrounded on all sides by human habitation including railway quarters, shops, railway yard, industrial units, domestic and commercial cattle shed.The main aquatic vegetation of the lake is the Water Hyacinth(Eichhornia crassipes).
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [22.581, 88.282], North East [22.583, 88.286] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
This dataset specifically includes all the Plant species recorded in a span of one year (2021-2022) in and around Santragachi Jheel. All the species were identified up to the species or genus level. A total of 89 species of plants were recorded belonging to 41 families and 22 orders.
| Kingdom | Plantae (Plants) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2021-01-01 / 2022-12-31 |
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Sampling Methods
Direct Observation
| Study Extent | Santragachi Jheel |
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Method step description:
- Direct observation, Field notes, Photography. Equipment used are Mobile Camera and Digital Camera (Nikon Coolpix P900, P600, B600). The samples were observed during removal of water hyacinth from the jheel. Observed data were recorded in the field notebook.
Bibliographic Citations
- Krishen, P. (2006). Trees of Delhi: A Field Guide. India: Dorling Kindersley (India).
- Krishen, P. (2013). Jungle Trees of Central India: A Field Guide for Tree Spotters. India: Penguin Books.
- Dwari, S., Mondal, A. (2022). Banglar Jalaja Udbhid, A book of Aquatic Plants of West Bengal. Citadel, 136pp.
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| Alternative Identifiers | fb0e3f03-d779-42f0-ad06-d8c71c6d1871 |
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| https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=plant-santragachi |