Invasive Alien Plants in the Kailash Sacred Landscape
Citation
Shrestha B B, Joshi S, Bisht N, Yi S, Kotru R, Chaudhary R P, Wu N, Shrestha L (2023). Invasive Alien Plants in the Kailash Sacred Landscape. Version 1.3. International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/mfuwhg accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-08-20.Description
This is an occurrence dataset with records of Invasive Alien Plants (IAPs) species from the Transboundary Landscape encompassing border areas of China, India and Nepal. The dataset contains occurrences of fourteen IAPs from the area recorded through a roadside survey primarily from Nepal and partly from India.Sampling Description
Study Extent
Roadside Survey in the Kailash Sacred Landscape, Nepal area. All the major road sections within KSL-Nepal which reach to the district headquarters of Baitadi (Dasharath Chand Municipality), Bajhang (Chainpur), and Darchula (Khalanga) were covered during the survey. In addition to KSL-Nepal, we surveyed about 50 km of road stretch in Dharchula, India, near the Nepal-India border next to Darchula DistrictSampling
Roadside SurveyQuality Control
item-0Method steps
- The occurrence of IAPS was examined in a 10 m × 10 m plot of the roadside vegetation at 10 km intervals (at some places where elevation changed rapidly, the interval was 5 km). In between these sampling locations, occasional observations of less common IAPS were also recorded. At each sampling location, the name of the IAPS present, land use type, aspect, elevation, and geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) were recorded. In addition to the roadside survey, the occurrence of the IAPS was also recorded along main trail in Chamelia Valley and Khar VDC.
Taxonomic Coverages
The dataset contains occurrences of IAPs from Magnoliopsida and Liliopsida class of Tracheophyta phylum
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Magnoliopsidarank: class
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Liliopsidarank: class
Geographic Coverages
Kailash Sacred Landscape-Nepal
Bibliographic Citations
- Shrestha, B. B., Joshi, S., Bisht, N., Yi, S., Kotru, R., Chaudhary, R. P., & Wu, N. (2018). Inventory and impact assessment of invasive alien plant species in Kailash Sacred Landscape: ICIMOD working paper 2018/2 (2018). ICIMOD Working Paper, (2018/2). -
Contacts
Bharat Babu Shresthaoriginator
position: Professor
Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University
Kathmandu
Bagmati
NP
email: shresthabb@gmail.com
Srijana Joshi
originator
position: Ecosystem Specialist
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Lalitpur
Bagmati
NP
email: Srijana.joshi@icimod.org
Neha Bisht
originator
position: Forestry and Biodiversity Advisor
GIZ
IN
email: neha.bisht16@gmail.com
Shaoliang Yi
originator
position: Senior Rangeland and Biodiversity Specialist
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Lalitpur
Bagmati
NP
email: yi.shaoliang@icimod.org
Rajan Kotru
originator
Ram Prasad Chaudhary
originator
position: Professor
Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University
NP
Ning Wu
originator
position: Professor
Chengdu Institute of Biology
CN
email: wuning@cib.ac.cn
Srijana Joshi
metadata author
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Lalitpur
Bagmati
NP
email: Srijana.joshi@icimod.org
Lily Shrestha
processor
position: Asia Regional Support Team
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
NP
email: lshrestha@gbif.org
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4540-723X
Lily Shrestha
metadata author
position: Asia Regional Support Team
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
NP
email: lshrestha@gbif.org
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4540-723X
Srijana Joshi
administrative point of contact
position: Ecosystem Specialist
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Lalitpur
Bagmati
NP
email: Srijana.joshi@icimod.org