c205843e-79c8-4f50-8622-4ccadf95febe eng Shiva Devkota Global Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (GIIS) Research Officer 977 9841317188 Nepal shiva.devkota@gmail.com WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link 2026-01-29T09:51:04 North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 Mushrooms Flora of Nepal at Natural History Museum, Tribhuvan University, Nepal 2021-01-25 Shiva Devkota Global Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (GIIS) Research Officer 977 9841317188 shiva.devkota@gmail.com Bimala Shakya Natural History Museum (NHM) Assistant Professor 977 1 4271899 bimalashakya2012@gmail.com NHM (Natural History Museum)(2021): Mushrooms Flora of Nepal at Natural History Museum. v1. Natural History Museum, Tribhuvan University. Dataset/Occurrence. http://rds.icimod.org:8080/hkh-bif/resource?r=mushroom_nhm&v=1.0 This occurrence database contains records of the mushrooms based on the herbarium specimens deposited at the Natural History Museum (NHM), Tribhuvan University Nepal. Situated on the lap of a world heritage site Swayambhu Stupa, this is the only natural history museum of Nepal with major objectives to collect, preserve and demonstrates flora, faunal, geological, and other natural specimens. Digitization has been a fast-growing process mostly in academic institutions for the preservation and dissemination of knowledge. In the global north, collections deposited in the libraries, natural history museums, and herbaria have been more or less digitized than in the global south. Therefore, for the conservation of the biological diversity and associated knowledge, documentation, digitization and analysis of the specimens of the global south are crucial. Mushroom in the other hand is already the understudied and underprivileged group and demands further research and extension. This digitization project aims to fulfil that gap and contribute to the records of GBIF by digitizing mushrooms herbarium collections deposited in different herbaria in Nepal. The data produced after digitization will serve as the foundation of mycological knowledge of Nepal quantifying their availability at different deposition centres with every ancillary detail. Digitization of available fungi is also important for the mycologists working at different institutions to understand their ecology, distribution, phenology and possible multidisciplinary research plans; high school and university students to share and understand about such fungal groups; mycophilic communities around to understand and share their knowledge and importantly for the building interest on mushrooms. Furthermore, as Nepal is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, existing knowledge on mushrooms is crucial to understand the impacts of climate change on the less explored taxonomic group. Occurrence Biodiversity Flora Mushrooms Specimen Nepal HKH-BIF Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) eng biota Nepal in South Asia false 79.958 88.264 26.274 30.487 1967-08-02 2020-09-12 ICIMOD 977-1-5275222 metadata@icimod.org http://rds.icimod.org:8080/hkh-bif/resource?r=mushroom_nhm WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link HKH-BIF Portal This database is a part of a project funded by the Biodiversity Information Fund for Asia (BIFA; project no. BIFA05_23 to Shiva Devkota) program of Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) supported by the Ministry of Environment, Government of Japan and co-funding came from the Himalayan Climate and Science Institute (HCSI), ForestAction Nepal and Global Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (GIIS).