Seventeen villages across three districts in Mozambique provide data on local tree names, species identification, and uses. Information was collected between 2014 and 2015 through field surveys, botanical identification, and community interviews. The dataset was compiled by the ACES project to study land use impacts on ecosystem services and rural wellbeing.
Use Cases
- Analyze the correlation between specific tree species and recorded local uses like medicine, firewood, or construction across villages.
- Map the distribution of local tree names for the same botanical species to study linguistic and cultural variation across the three districts.
- Train a model to predict tree species uses based on local name patterns and geographic location within Mozambique.
- Study the diversity of tree uses documented through key informant interviews and focus group discussions in different provinces.
Strengths
- Data covers seventeen distinct villages, providing a multi-site perspective.
- Collection spans three separate districts (Mabalane, Marrupa, Gurue) across different provinces.
- Fieldwork occurred over multiple years, with data collected between 2014 and 2015.
- Species identification involved both field experts and botanists at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane.
Limitations
- Sample size is limited to seventeen villages, which may not represent all regions of Mozambique.
- Data is temporally stale, collected over a decade ago (2014-2015), and ecological conditions may have changed.
- The dataset likely reflects specific local knowledge and may have geographic bias towards the three sampled districts.
Provenance
- Source
- Environmental Information Data Centre
- Collection Method
- Collated from forest plots, agricultural field surveys, key informant interviews, focus group discussions, village surveys, and ad-hoc observations.
- Time Range
- May-September 2014 (Mabalane), May-August 2015 (Marrupa), September-December我们发现一个错误。 (Gurue)
- Freshness
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- Geography
- Seventeen villages across Mabalane District (Gaza Province), Marrupa District (Niassa Province), and Gurue District (Zambezia Province), Mozambique, Africa.