ibclogo XVI International Botanical Congess


Abstract Number: 2369
Session = 7.8.7


Productivity of community-based botanical inventories at Kinabalu Park


Gary J. Martin*, John H. Beaman+, Reed S. Beaman%, John Dransfield+, Ludi Apin#, Jamili Nais# *People and Plants Initiative, B.P. 262, Marrakesh-Medina, Morocco+Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB, UK%Herbarium, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA # Sabah Parks, P.O. Box 10626, 88806 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia


One efficient way of achieving relatively complete botanical inventories is to involve scientists and members of local communities in a collaborative collecting programme. Community-based collecting has not previously been compared quantitatively with conventional ways of conducting botanical surveys. Analysis of floristic and ethnobotanical collections on Mount Kinabalu (Sabah, Malaysia) reveals that community-based collectors increased recorded palm taxa by 65.3%, and monocotyledons by 28%, in 4.5 years.


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