AF-MA-001 - Vegetation Database of Southern Morocco

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Finckh, Manfred

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Database Details

Please refer to the ID AF-MA-001 whenever using data from this particular database

ID:	AF-MA-001
Registered since:	2010-08-27
Last update:	2015-09-23
Web address	http://www.biota-africa.org
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Editor of GIVD Database Entry

Editor:

Manfred Finckh

Scope

(fact sheet)

Rangeland vegetation of southern Morocco from the High Atlas to the Sahara with focus on the Draa-catchment. The data set includes individual based permanent plots and Biodiversity Observatories.

Abstract

(fact sheet)

The Vegetation Database of Southern Morocco compiles vegetation relevés and permanent plot data from south-central Morocco, with a special focus on the provinces of Ouarzazate and Zagora. Most of the data was sampled within the research projects IMPETUS (http://www.impetus.uni-koeln.de) and BIOTA Maroc (http://www.biota-africa.org/).
The database includes most types of natural rangeland types occurring in this area, in especially oromediterranean screes, oromediterranean cushion shrubs, Sagebrush steppes, Halfa-steppes, presaharan Hammada-steppes, Saharan rock desert, Saharan regs, Saharan sand dunes, Acacia-wadis, and halophytic salt pan vegetation.
A special feature of the database are vegetation monitoring data from 35 permanent plots and 2 BIOTA Biodiversity Observatories along an altitudinal transect from the Mgoun area in Central High Atlas down to the Lac Iriki at the Algerian Border. Those data include individual based plot observations and repeated relevés covering the period from 2001 to 2009.

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Owner:(fact sheet)

BIOTA Data Facility

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Web address:

http://www.biota-africa.org

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Other contents:

classification

synoptic tables

vegetation maps

other

individual records on permanent plots

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Number of sources:

List of primary sources:

BIOTA Maroc Fieldwork 2001-2009;
Selected publicated records from: Quezel 1952, Quezel & Barbero 1981 and Quezel et al 1995

Overlap with other databases

Other overlapping databases

Plottypes(fact sheet)

normal plots

nested plots

time series

Number of locations

Start Year:		End Year:

Repetition

more than once a year

every year

every 2 years

every 3-10 years

less than every 10 years

other

other:

Max number of observations in one series

Mean number of observations in one series

Time series

Number of series

Max. plot-size range

smallest:		largest:
m²		m²

Max number of plot sizes in one series

Mean number of plot sizes in one series

Nested-plot series

Comments on plot-design

The following numbers refer to data you really have, but not to data you are going to collect in the future. So, please no potential vegetation-plots!

Number of veg.-plots with non-overlapping area(fact sheet)		Number of veg.-plots observations(fact sheet)
Estimate of existing non-overlapping veg.-plots(fact sheet)		Completeness	3

The following questions refer to the total number of vegetation-plots!

Plot Sizes(fact sheet)

min: m² - max: m²

(Note that only plot sizes up to 2 ha are eligible for GIVD; additional larger plot sizes are only possible in the case of nested-plot series that also contain smaller plots. see 'Criteria for inclusion')

Plot size categories	< 1 m²	1 - 10 m²	10 - 100 m²
	100 - 1000 m²	1000 - 10000 m²	> 10000 m²
	unknown

Years

oldest:	youngest:

Decades(fact sheet)	< 1919	1920-1929	1930-1939	1940-1949
	1950-1959	1960-1969	1970-1979	1980-1989
	1990-1999	2000-2009	2010-2019	after 2020
	unknown

Covered countries(fact sheet)

Country

Percentage

Guilds(fact sheet)	woody vascular plants:	herbaceous vascular plants
	bryophytes (terricolous or aquatic)	lichens (terricolous or aquatic)
	algae (terricolous or aquatic)	non-terricolous taxa (epiphytic, saxicolous, lignicolous)

Performance measure(fact sheet)	presence/absence only		cover		number of individuals
	measurements like diameter or height of trees		biomass		other

Phytosociological classification

from primary source

with uniform classification

Geographic localisation(fact sheet)	GPS coordinates (precision 25 m or less)		point coordinates less precise than GPS, up to 1 km
	small grid (not coarser than 10 km)		political units or only on a coarser scale ( above 10 km)

Structural data

cover of vegetation layers

height of vegetation layers

Environmental data(fact sheet)	altitude	slope aspect
	slope inclination	microrelief
	surface cover other than plants (open soil, litter, bare rock etc.)	other soil attributes
	soil pH	land use categories
	soil depth
	other attributes

	i.e. names of the other soil attributes if you filled in a fraction above

Number of taxon names
Number of valid taxa(fact sheet)
Plant nomenclature: general	Flore du Maroc
Publication(s) describing the data
DB related publication DOI
Publication(s) analysing the data
Classification(s) using the database
Comments	The high number of small plots corresponds to time series of nested plots within 35 permanent plots along a transect from The High Atlas in the Sahara. The independent 100 m² plots are spread all over the Draa-Catchment.