Presentation of Burkina Faso plant catalogue at AETFAT 2014 in Stellenbosch
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A presentation of the new catalogue of vascular plants of Burkina Faso, given at the AETFAT conference in Stellenbosch in 2014
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Presentation of Burkina Faso plant catalogue at AETFAT 2014 in Stellenbosch
- 1. Flora of Burkina Faso – a new catalogue of the vascular plants Marco Schmidt, Adjima Thiombiano, Stefan Dressler, Amadé Ouédraogo, Karen Hahn & Georg Zizka 20th AETFAT congress, Stellenbosch, 13-17 Jan 2014
- 2. Guinko 1984: 1024 spp. Thiombiano et al. 2012: 2067 spp. Lebrun et al. 1991: 1203 spp. 30 years of progress on the flora
- 3. Digitization of OUA/FR collections
- 4. Identifying sampling gaps Species / 0,5° grid cell 0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 AAU OUA FR specimens month Gap selection index (García- Marquez et al. 2012)
- 5. Focussed collection activities 2004 / 2006 2008 2009 • Collecting expeditions • PhD theses
- 7. Database Integration of information from... • herbarium databases • floras • plant use literature • taxonomic databases • distribution data • etc. Export into formatted text for print publication
- 8. Contents
- 9. Contents
- 10. Contents
- 11. Contents • Synonymy • References / Iconography • Vernacular Names (Mooré / French) • Life form • Medicinal use • Human and animal food • Other uses • Habitat • Phytosociology • Other ecology • Distribution • Specimens
- 13. Plant use 2067 1013 703 401 364 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 Whole flora Any recorded use Traditional medicine Human nutrition Fodder Talk by Alexander Zizka
- 14. Perspective eFlora Catalogue database Herbarium databases Photos, other data sources eFlora platform
- 15. Perspective eFlora Catalogue database Collection data Distribution data PhotosIntegration into eFlora platform Expert involvement Integration of keys, etc. Full eFlora family treatments print volumes?
- 16. Many thanks to... Jean-Pierre Lebrun Laurent Aké-Assi European commission BMBF Editorial team of Boissiera Field / herbarium / database assistants
- 17. Thank you for your attention!
Editor's Notes
- building on previous works first collections by Chevalier in late 19th century first comprehensive assessment: Vegetation de la Haute-Volta Lebrun now more than twice as many species documented as 30yrs ago
- important step: digitization of the West Africa collection of Herbarium Senckenbergianum already started during the SFB 268 in late 90s, has been continually completed and updated and now stored in SeSam digitization of OUA in relational db based on MS Access c. 12000 specimens in FR, 20000 in OUA
- with the db at hand it was possible to identify sampling gaps by simple queries and links with GIS geographical: Subsahel, SW seasonal: early flowering habitats: gallery forests, bowé, rocky habitats environmental conditions
- efforts to close gaps joint collection expeditions 2004/2006: SW 2008: WAP 2009: SW, W, Subsahel PhD and diploma theses in Ouaga and Frankfurt bowé gallery forests several protected areas (Arly, W, Comoé-Léraba)
- impressions from fieldwork difficult access Ouaga Frankfurt teams supported by Prof. Laurent Aké-Assi
- so we improved the foundation of the specimens next step checklist database combined species of specimen databases with Lebrun‘s checklist used African Plant Database as a taxonomic standard list only included species with specimens or already documented by Lebrun et al. integrated ecology plant use, distribution Export into formatted text for print publication
- Cover and sample page: chose french as national language of Burkina 2067 species
- official forewords introduction history of research on BF flora, presentation of country colour plates of habitats of all vegetation zones ranging from tigerbush to Sudanian forests
- color plates of selected species species part ordered by higher taxa: pteridophytes, gymnosperms, monocots, dicots, then alphabetically by family, genus and species
- for each species information from the following sections: synonymy: only those more commonly used in BF or region reference iconography
- some statistics: species composition by family typical savanna flora with lots of legumes and grasses other important families more details have been presented by G Zizka this morning
- plant use: nr spp of whole flora all spp. used in some way (49%) 3 main uses: traditional medicine (> 1/3) human nutrition (c. 20%) fodder family spectrum similar to flora in general, but e.g. Poaceae less important in medicine, more in fodder, families rich in secondary metabolites more represented in medicine no more details on plant use here as this has been shown by A Zizka on Monday
- perspective develop eFlora eventually use one of the existing platforms for efloras like scratchpads or TaxonEditor include catalogue database include collection databases + GBIF include photos from African Plants photo guide ( talk by Stefan Dressler), West African Vegetation Database, etc.
- then involving experts stepwise treatment of families integrate keys (coding characters using xPer or Lucid?) eventually go into print or provide printable pdfs online
- lot of support many thanx to JP Lebrun for laying the foundation with the 1991 catalogue L Aké-Assi for joining the Ouaga-Frankfurt team on collecting expeditions, determination of specimens in OUA, contribution of specimen data from Abidjan and proof-reading EC/BMBF for financing the BIOTA/SUN/UNDESERT projects Editorial team of Boissiera for their great work Field, herbarium and database assistants
- Chaine de Gobnangou from 2008 expedition thank you for your attention