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Title

Occurrence of exotic plant species in oil palm dominated landscapes with embedded rainforest remnants in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, 2019

Abstract

This dataset contains records of exotic plant occurrence within 21 oil palm-dominated sites in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Within each site, exotic plants were recorded along 100m transects in up to four habitats that represented a gradient of disturbance. The four habitats included oil palm, forest-oil palm edge, disturbed forest and intact forest. In addition to exotic plant data, the dataset contains measurements of forest structure for each transect, including canopy cover and number of large native trees. These data were collected in order to examine the change in exotic species composition along a disturbance gradient from oil palm areas into intact rainforest remnants. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/372861ee-67c5-4bb3-b765-cf8c03c06199

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/372861ee-67c5-4bb3-b765-cf8c03c06199

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https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/372861ee-67c5-4bb3-b765-cf8c03c06199.zip

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Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/372861ee-67c5-4bb3-b765-cf8c03c06199

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

biota

environment

farming

Keywords

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

116.775

East bounding longitude

118.621

North bounding latitude

6.353

South bounding latitude

4.976

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2019-03-02

End position

2019-04-08

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2020-09-04

date type

creation

effective date

2019-04-10

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Field surveys were conducted in July to October 2017 and February to April 2019. The 21 sites were all in Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil-certified oil palm plantations. Rainforest remnants, where the forest transects were conducted, were mostly isolated forest fragments (n=15 sites) and six sites were connected to larger tracts of forest reserves outside the oil palm plantation boundary. At each site, exotic plants were surveyed along 100 m transect in up to four habitats, oil palm (n=21 transects), forest-oil palm edge (n=21), disturbed forest (n=20) and intact forest (n=16). Four rainforest remnants were very small and disturbed and therefore had no ‘intact forest’ and in one site the forest interior was not accessible. All plants were identified to species and their exotic status confirmed with the help of experienced local botanists and species lists compiled from literature. In total 18 exotic species were recorded, made up of forbs, climbers and shrubs, no exotic trees were detected and graminoids were not included due to difficulties with identification. Intentionally planted exotic species (i.e. leguminous cover crop, Calopogonium mucunoides) were also excluded. The dataset also includes measurements of forest structure (e.g. canopy cover and number of native large trees) along the length of each transect.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

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explanation

Data format

name of format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

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Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Waddell, E.H., Chapman, D.S., Hill, J.K., Hughes, M., Bin Sailim, A., Tangah, J., Banin, L.F. (2020). Occurrence of exotic plant species in oil palm dominated landscapes with embedded rainforest remnants in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, 2019. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/372861ee-67c5-4bb3-b765-cf8c03c06199

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

web address

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2555-6390

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