Local tree names, uses and species identification in Mozambique

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• Last updated: 02 August 2023
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Summary

The dataset includes lists of local tree names, tree species identification and local uses of trees in seventeen different villages across three Districts in Mozambique, Africa. We collated species lists from seven villages in Mabalane District, Gaza Province, ten villages in Marrupa District, Niassa Province, and ten villages in Gurue District Zambezia Province. Data were collected in Mabalane between May-Sep 2014, Marrupa between May-Aug 2015, and Gurue between Sep-Dec 2015. Lists of local tree names were collated from several forest plots and agricultural field surveys occurring within the sampled villages, and their species identified in the field by the authors and/or from dried and pressed samples by botanists at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo. Tree species uses by local populations were recorded through a mixture of key informant interviews, focus group discussions, village surveys and ad-hoc observations. This dataset was collected as part of the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) funded ACES project , which aims to understand how changing land use impacts on ecosystem services and human wellbeing of the rural poor in Mozambique. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/52371ef0-855f-40c8-8567-f8965f9cbf03

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2023-08-01T12:01:08
• Access contraints: © University of Edinburgh
• Harvest GUID: 52371ef0-855f-40c8-8567-f8965f9cbf03
• Extent: Latitude: -10.347° to -27.479°
• Extent: Longitude: 29.68° to 42.248°
• Dataset reference date: 2017-12-18 (publication)
• Dataset reference date: 2015-12-31 (creation)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: University of Edinburgh (pointOfContact, author, owner); University of Zimbabwe (author); Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (author); Universidade Lurio (author); Universidade Zambeze (author); Centro polivalente Leão Dehon (author); NERC Environmental Information Data Centre (publisher); NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre (custodian)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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