Author: Sameer Bajracharya
Keywords: Protected area, Toorsa Strict Nature Reserve, Kangchenjunga Landscape, Species, Plants, Seed Plants, Angiosperms, Gymnosperms, Bhutan., Biodiversity, HKH-bif, Metadata, Checklist

Seed Plants of Toorsa Strict Nature Reserve

Neha Bisht^1

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

Corresponding author(s): , Neha Bisht (nbisht@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 Strict Nature Reserve in Bhutan.

Keywords: Protected area, Toorsa Strict Nature Reserve, Kangchenjunga Landscape, Species, Plants, Seed 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_strict_nature_reserve

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The Toorsa Strict Nature Reserve lies mostly in Haa dzongkhag with a very small area spreading south into Samtse dzongkhag in western Bhutan. This reserve covers an area of 650 sq. km and is the only reserve in Bhutan without human settlements. It protects the western most variant of central temperate forests in the country ranging from broadleaf forests to alpine parks and includes the small lake of Sinchulunga. Being virtually uninhabited, the Reserve has one of the most pristine temperate forests and alpine vegetation in the entire Himalayas.
Coordinates: 27°12'10.8''N and 27°34'22.8''N Latitude; 88°54'28.8''E and 89°10'1.2''E Longitude 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Seed Plants of Toorsa Strict Nature Reserve
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_strict_nature_reserve
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