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Alien Flora of Nepal at KATH

Updated Date: 7/7/2021 3:33:34 PM

The database contains occurrence records of the alien plants of Nepal based on the herbarium specimens that have been deposited at the National Herbarium and Plant Laboratories (KATH) of the Department of Plant Resources, Ministry of Forest and Environment, Kathmandu, Nepal. The species included are invasive as well as non-invasive naturalized species. It has records of 133 alien species included in 3513 herbarium records.

Alien Flora of Nepal at KATH
Schema iso19139
Purpose The database has been developed and published to fill geographic gap of the freely available occurrence data of plants and inform policy process for the conservation of biodiversity. Specifically, the database helps to meet Nepal’s commitment to make biodiversity data available as a part of Global Strategy for Plant Conservation 2011-2020 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
Descriptive Keyword Occurrence, Biodiversity, Flora, Alien Flora, Specimen (theme) Nepal, HKH-BIF (place)
Metadata Record Info
Language eng
Charset utf8
Hierarchy Level dataset
Date 2021-07-07T15:33:34
Standard Name North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003
Contact
Name Sanjita Dhakal Email dhakalsajita0@gmail.com
Organization Name KATH (National Herbarium and Plant Laboratories) Voice 977 1 5174047
Position name Research Officer Address Nepal
Role author
Identification Info
Title Alien Flora of Nepal at KATH
Date 2019-07-30
Date Type publication
Abstract The database contains occurrence records of the alien plants of Nepal based on the herbarium specimens that have been deposited at the National Herbarium and Plant Laboratories (KATH) of the Department of Plant Resources, Ministry of Forest and Environment, Kathmandu, Nepal. The species included are invasive as well as non-invasive naturalized species. It has records of 133 alien species included in 3513 herbarium records.
Purpose The database has been developed and published to fill geographic gap of the freely available occurrence data of plants and inform policy process for the conservation of biodiversity. Specifically, the database helps to meet Nepal’s commitment to make biodiversity data available as a part of Global Strategy for Plant Conservation 2011-2020 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
Status completed
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Topic Category biota
Spatial Representation Type textTable
Cited Responsible Parties
Name Sanjita Dhakal Email dhakalsajita0@gmail.com
Organization Name KATH (National Herbarium and Plant Laboratories) Voice 977 1 5174047
Position name Research Officer Address
Role author
Geographic Extent
Geographic Extent East 88.264 Geographic Extent West 79.958
Geographic Extent North 30.487 Geographic Extent South 26.274
Resource Maintenance Information
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Use Limitation KATH (National Herbarium and Plant Laboratories) (2020): Alien Flora of Nepal at KATH. v1.2. Department of Plant Resources, MoFE, Government of Nepal. Dataset/Occurrence. http://rds.icimod.org:8080/hkh-bif/resource?r=alien_flora_of_nepal_kath&v=1.2
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Data Quality Info
Hierarchy level dataset
Distributor Info
Email metadata@icimod.org Organization Name ICIMOD
Voice 977-1-5275222 Position name
Address Role distributor
Transfer Option
Online Resource HKH-BIF Portal