Maps of species richness of vascular plants and functional groups in the Sahel of Burkina Faso

The dataset is a set of maps in ascii format, derived from stacked species distribution models of vascular plants in the Sahel of Burkina Faso, describing the number of species of all vascular plants and of groups of photosynthetic type or of life form. A map of species turnover is also provided.

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Additional Info

Field	Value
Geographic coverage
Geographic description	Sahel region of Burkina Faso, West Africa
Bounding coordinates	North: 14.6667 West: -0.3331 East: -0.3331 South: 14.6667
Temporal coverage
Timestep	2008
Taxonomic coverage
Division	Tracheophyta
General taxonomic description	based on 138 species out of 354 occurring in the study area
Other info
Last Updated	December 17, 2020, 15:43 (UTC)
Created	December 17, 2020, 15:43 (UTC)

Responsible parties

Creator
Name	Marco Schmidt
Organization affiliations	Senckenberg, EU project UNDESERT
Role
Contact
Name	Marco Schmidt
E-mail
Organization affiliations	Senckenberg
Associated party
Name	Marco Schmidt
Role
Associated party
Name	Konstantin Koenig
Role
Associated party
Name	Jonas Mueller
Role
Metadata provider
Name	Marco Schmidt

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Data will be stored at (long-term archived)	Information still missing

Link to this dataset:

https://dataportal.senckenberg.de/dataset/689356d6-53a4-4ed2-a3a1-91b4414f6045