Biodiversity assessment in the Yangambi Biosphere Reserve

Frederik Van de Perre1, Bart Würsten2, Myriam de Haan3, André De Kesel3, Dries Van den Broeck2, Patrick Grootaert4, Maurice Leponce4, Stijn Cooleman5, André Heughebaert6

1 University Antwerpen, ; 2 Botanic Garden Meise, , Belgium; 3 Botanic garden Meise, , Belgium; 4 Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, , Belgium; 5 Royal Museum for Central Africa, , Belgium; 6 

Corresponding author(s): Frederik Van de Perre (frederik.vandeperre@uantwerpen.be)Bart Würsten (ndundu@zol.co.zw)Myriam de Haan (myriam.dehaan@botanicgardenmeise.be)André De Kesel (andre.dekesel@botanicgardenmeise.be)Dries Van den Broeck (dries.vandenbroeck@botanicgardenmeise.be)Patrick Grootaert (grootaert@naturalsciences.be)Maurice Leponce (maurice.leponce@naturalsciences.be)Stijn Cooleman (stijn.cooleman@gmail.com)

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Resource Citation

Van de Perre F, Würsten B, de Haan M, De Kesel A, Van den Broeck D, Grootaert P, Leponce M, Cooleman S (2018): Biodiversity assessment in the Yangambi Biosphere Reserve. v1.4. Belgian Biodiversity Platform. Dataset/Samplingevent. http://ipt.biodiversity.be/resource?r=ybr_cobimfo&v=1.4

Abstract

This dataset aggregates the biodiversity observations related to trees, slime moulds, fungi, bark lichens, leaf lichens, flies, ants, birds, rodents and shrews : An assessment of the relation between carbon storage and biodiversity in the Yangambi Biosphere Reserve (D.R. Congo). See research article:
Reconciling biodiversity and carbon stock conservation in an Afrotropical forest landscape.
Van de Perre et al., Sci. Adv. 2018;4:eaar6603, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar6603

Keywords: Samplingevent, Congo basin, Carbon, biodiversity, REDD+, lowland rainforest

Project details

Project title: COBIMFO CONGO BASIN INTEGRATED MONITORING FOR FOREST CARBON MITIGATION AND BIODIVERSITY
Personnel: Frederik Van de Perre, Pascal Boeckx
Funding: COBIMFO project was funded by BELSPO under the SCIENCE FOR A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (SSD) program
Study area descriptions/descriptor: We will measure aboveground and belowground soil carbon stocks and biodiversity indices along a forest productivity gradient (21 sites) in the Yangambi Man and Biosphere reserve (Y-MaB) and investigate direct effect relationships between forest carbon stocks and biodiversity along this productivity gradient (PG-CB). The different sites located along a forest productivity gradient were selected using remote sensing techniques and validated on the ground.

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.biodiversity.be/resource?r=ybr_cobimfo

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The Yangambi Biosphere Reserve is situated within the Congo River Basin west of the City Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Coordinates: 0°35'2.4''N and 1°4'18.48''N Latitude; 24°25'28.2''E and 24°58'44.4''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: September 1, 2012 - August 1, 2016

Methods

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Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Biodiversity assessment in the Yangambi Biosphere Reserve
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.biodiversity.be/archive.do?r=ybr_cobimfo
Publication date of data: 2018-03-30
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-03-13
Hierarchy level: Dataset