Description
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. 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 & Science Institute (HCSI), ForestAction Nepal and Global Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (GIIS).
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 1,644 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:
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
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Natural History Museum, Tribhuvan University. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: bbd4effa-9796-4e0c-8c1a-0b92f6a95907. Natural History Museum, Tribhuvan University publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Originator
Geographic Coverage
Nepal in South Asia
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [26.313, 79.98], North East [30.468, 88.308] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1967-08-02 / 2020-09-12 |
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Project Data
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 only natural history museum of Nepal with major objectives to collect, preserve and demonstrates flora, faunal and geological and other natural specimens. This database contains the records of 1644 mushroom specimens (Ascomycota: 196; Basidiomycota 1448) comprising 89 families, 200 genera and 270 identified species tracing the old record from the year 1967 until 2020. 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.
| Title | Mobilizing Mushrooms Flora of Nepal at Natural History Museum |
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| Identifier | BIFA5_023 |
| Funding | The main funding for this project (BIFA05_023) came from the Biodiversity Information Fund for Asia (BIFA) program of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) which was funded by the Ministry of Environment, Government of Japan. |
| Study Area Description | Nepal in South Asia |
| Design Description | 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. |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Principal Investigator
- Author
- Point Of Contact
Sampling Methods
The occurrence records of the mushrooms of Nepal housed at Natural History Museum, Tribhuvan University, Nepal.
| Study Extent | The occurrence records of the mushrooms of Nepal housed at Natural History Museum, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. |
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| Quality Control | - Experts consultation (for taxonomic determination/confirmation and data geo-references), - Data cleaning using OpenRefine (https://openrefine.org/), - Data validation using GBIF data validator (https://www.gbif.org/tools/data-validator), - Data management in Darwin Core Standard Format using reference guide (https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/), - Missing coordinate and geographic outliers check of the locations (https://www.google.com/earth/) |
Method step description:
- - Pre-digitization curation and staging - Image capture and processing - Electronic data capture - Georeferencing - Data publication
Additional Metadata
| Purpose | 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. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | bbd4effa-9796-4e0c-8c1a-0b92f6a95907 |
| http://rds.icimod.org:8080/hkh-bif/resource?r=mushroom_nhm |