Identification info

Metadata Language

English (en)

Character set

utf8

Dataset Reference Date ()

2020-06-15

Dataset Reference Date ()

2020-06-02

Identifier

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/c67b06b7-c3f6-49a3-baf2-9fc3a72cb98a

Identifier

doi: / 10.5285/c67b06b7-c3f6-49a3-baf2-9fc3a72cb98a

Other citation details

Waddell, E.H., Fleiss, S., Bala Ola, B., Bin Sailim, A., Jelling, A., Yeong, K.L., Tangah, J., Benedick, S., King, H., Hughes, M., McClean, C.J., Chapman, D.S., Hill, J.K., Banin, L.F. (2020). Vegetation and habitat data for fragmented and continuous forest sites in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, 2017. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/c67b06b7-c3f6-49a3-baf2-9fc3a72cb98a

Keywords

• Agriculture
• Biodiversity
• Ecosystem services
• Invasive species
• Land use
• Soil
• Forest fragmentation
• Oil palm
• Tropical rainforest
• Conservation set-aside
• Sustainable agriculture
• Agricultural landscapes
• Plant biodiversity
• Flora
• Carbon storage
• Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
• Non-native species
• Forest degradation
• Borneo
• Plantae

Limitations on Public Access

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no limitations

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This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Waddell, E.H., Fleiss, S., Bala Ola, B., Bin Sailim, A., Jelling, A., Yeong, K.L., Tangah, J., Benedick, S., King, H., Hughes, M., McClean, C.J., Chapman, D.S., Hill, J.K., Banin, L.F. (2020). Vegetation and habitat data for fragmented and continuous forest sites in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, 2017. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/c67b06b7-c3f6-49a3-baf2-9fc3a72cb98a

Spatial representation type

textTable

Distance

15  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Topic category

• Biota
• Environment
• Farming
• Planning cadastre

Begin date

2017-07-21

End date

2017-10-28

 

Code

WGS 84

Distribution Information

Data format

• Comma-separated values (CSV) ()

 

Quality Scope

dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

Field surveys were conducted in July - October 2017. The 14 fragmented sites were all in Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil-certified oil palm plantations; and they varied from isolated forest fragments to sites connected to forest reserves outside the oil palm plantation. The four continuous forest sites were located in Danum Valley and Malua Forest Reserves, and include both primary and logged forest sites.

At each site, vegetation was surveyed in 2-3 circular plots spaced 100 m apart along a transect (the smallest fragmented sites had only 2 plots and all other sites had 3). In each plot, living trees and palms, saplings, seedlings, other ground vegetation (herbs, shrubs, climbers, ferns and graminoids), deadwood, and lianas on trees were surveyed in a nested plot design. All living trees, saplings, seedlings and ground vegetation were identified to genus, and to species where possible; and all ground vegetation was identified as either exotic or native to Sabah. Field data were collected in collaboration with experienced local botanists.

The data include measurements of forest cover and leaf litter depth, as measures of forest structure which are likely to covary with vegetation. In addition, eight soil parameters were measured from topsoil samples in each plot. The dataset also includes metrics relating to the degree of forest fragmentation in the landscape surrounding the plots, which were calculated using drone (UAV) imagery from an oil palm company.

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File identifier

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Metadata Language

English (en)

Character set

ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1)

Resource type

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Hierarchy level name

dataset

Metadata Date

2021-06-25T18:38:02

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3