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Utilized plant species on cacao plantations younger than 7 years

 Download PDF document        Last update: 2010-09-22   Done by: July 2010, Serge Cherry Piba & Dr. Dethardt Goetze (online G.Muche)     Copy dataset as template

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DescriptionInventories of all plant species other than cacao on cacao plantations and assignment of utilization purposes from ethnobotanic interviews
Purpose Study of utilization of spontaneous and introduced plant species on cacao plantations of various ages, and of the importance of these species to the peasants.
Main theme(s)
  1. Agriculture
  2. Biodiversity
  3. Flora
  4. Land use
Subtheme(s)
  1. Cacao
  2. Cash Crops
  3. Farming
  4. Medical Plants
  5. Natural Resources
  6. Species richness
Biome(s) Upper Guinean forests
Country(ies) Côte d’Ivoire
Administration unit(s) Préfecture Oumé
Locality(ies) Oumé/Goulikao
BIOTA Observatory(ies)
Period(s) November–December 2007, May 2008
Sampling method(s) Complete field inventories of vegetation Ethnobotanical interviews using standardized questionaries
Responsible person(s) Serge Cherry Piba
Regional networks(s) BIOTA Maroc, BIOTA West Africa, BIOTA East Africa, BIOTA Southern Africa
Related subprojects / workpackages / topics Core Topic 2, Topic 1, Work Package 1, Part 1a: Plant and animal diversity and cacao cultivation
Copyright holder Serge Cherry Piba
Restrictions of dissemination Data provider: Can be obtained upon a special request being addressed to the data provider directly
Start time of protection 2010
Duration of protection 3 years
Rationale / notes Ongoing utilization for further analyses and publications



Data
Format Excel Worksheets (xls)
File name(s) / size(s) Plantations de cacao moins de 7 ans.xls / 71 KB
Software requirements Microsoft Excel
Documentation  
    Format Included in the Excel file
    File name(s) Biota-Africa
    Status complete
    Notes
    Related publications Piba, S. C., Koulibaly, A., Goetze, D., Porembski, S. & Traoré, D., subm.: Importance sociale des espèces médicinales préservées dans les agrosystèmes cacaoyers au Centre-Ouest de la Côte d’Ivoire. Annales de Botanique de l’Afrique de l’Ouest.



Contact person
Piba, Serge Cherry 
Lab. de Botanique, Université de Cocody, Abidjan 

- Abidjan
Ivory Coast 
Phone: +225 08013434 
sergepiba@yahoo.fr

Position: PhD Student