Author: Sameer Bajracharya
Keywords: Corridor, Toorsa Strict Nature Reserve (TSNR), Jigme Dorji National Park (JDNP), Kangchenjunga Landscape, Species, Seed Plants, Plants, Angiosperms, Gymnosperms, Bhutan, Biodiversity, HKH-bif, Metadata, Checklist

Seed Plants of Toorsa Jigme Dorji Corridor

Neha Bisht^1

1 ICIMOD, Khumaltar, GPO Box No 3226, Lalitpur, Nepal

Corresponding author(s):  (metadata@icimod.org)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

ICIMOD (2008) Kangchenjunga Landscape Biodiversity Database ICIMOD Kangchenjunga Landscape Biodiversity Database

Abstract

This is a list of seed plants (angiosperms and gymnosperms) recorded from the Toorsa Jigme Dorji Corridor, in Bhutan.

Keywords: Corridor, Toorsa Strict Nature Reserve (TSNR), Jigme Dorji National Park (JDNP), Kangchenjunga Landscape, Species, Seed Plants, Plants, Angiosperms, Gymnosperms, Bhutan, Biodiversity, HKH-bif, Metadata, Checklist

Project details

Project title: Transboundary Biodiversity Management in Kangchenjunga Landscape
Personnel: Nakul Chettri
Funding: The MacArthur Foundation
Study area descriptions/descriptor: The Kangchenjunga Landscape encompasses the southern stretch of landscape surrounding Mt Kangchenjunga (8,586m), which spreads over diverse ecological zones in eastern Nepal, Darjeeling and Sikkim in India, and western Bhutan. On the northern side, a small part of the northern slope extends into the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

Data published through GBIF: http://rds.icimod.org:8080/hkh-bif/resource?r=Toorsa_jigme_dorji_corridor

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The corridor connecting the Toorsa Strict Nature Reserve (TSNR) and Jigme Dorji National Park (JDNP) in western Bhutan is an important component of the Kangchenjunga Landscape, which links protected areas in western Bhutan with those in India. The TSNR-JDNP biological corridor has been endorsed by the Royal Government of Bhutan as an integral part of the Bhutan Biological Conservation Complex (B2C2). B2C2 encompasses interconnected area of more than 15,000 sq. km in Bhutan with twelve biological corridors and nine protected areas. The TSNR-JDNP biological corridor has the potential to considerably facilitate ecological processes, wildlife movement, and gene flow within the entire B2C2, as well as across the border in India. The corridor is 30 km in length and has an area of 149 sq. km. The corridor falls within the Bji geog (Haa Dzongkhag) and Tsento geog (Paro Dzongkhag) in western Bhutan. Two major tributaries namely, Pachhu and Haachhu, that feed to the Wangchu River System, have its catchments in this biological corridor. The corridor is devoid of any human habitation but is strongly influenced by villages along the periphery of the corridor.
Coordinates: 27°26'2.4''N and 27°41'20.4''N Latitude; 89°8'2.4''E and 89°18'50.4''E Longitude 

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Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Seed Plants of Toorsa Jigme Dorji Corridor
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://rds.icimod.org:8080/hkh-bif/archive.do?r=Toorsa_jigme_dorji_corridor
Publication date of data: 2023-10-03
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2012-03-01
Hierarchy level: Dataset