372861ee-67c5-4bb3-b765-cf8c03c06199 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:18:12 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Occurrence of exotic plant species in oil palm dominated landscapes with embedded rainforest remnants in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, 2019 2020-09-04 publication 2019-04-10 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/372861ee-67c5-4bb3-b765-cf8c03c06199 10.5285/372861ee-67c5-4bb3-b765-cf8c03c06199 doi: Waddell, E.H., Chapman, D.S., Hill, J.K., Hughes, M., Bin Sailim, A., Tangah, J., Banin, L.F. (2020). Occurrence of exotic plant species in oil palm dominated landscapes with embedded rainforest remnants in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, 2019. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/372861ee-67c5-4bb3-b765-cf8c03c06199 This dataset contains records of exotic plant occurrence within 21 oil palm-dominated sites in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Within each site, exotic plants were recorded along 100m transects in up to four habitats that represented a gradient of disturbance. The four habitats included oil palm, forest-oil palm edge, disturbed forest and intact forest. In addition to exotic plant data, the dataset contains measurements of forest structure for each transect, including canopy cover and number of large native trees. These data were collected in order to examine the change in exotic species composition along a disturbance gradient from oil palm areas into intact rainforest remnants. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/372861ee-67c5-4bb3-b765-cf8c03c06199 Waddell, E. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact Waddell, E.H. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2555-6390 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Chapman, D.S. University of Stirling daniel.chapman@stir.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1836-4112 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Hill, J.K. University of York jane.hill@york.ac.uk author Hughes, M. Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh mhughes@rbge.org.uk author Bin Sailim, A. The South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership azzdvfc18@gmail.com author Tangah, J. Forest Research Centre, Sandakan joseph.tangah@sabah.gov.my author Banin, L.F. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1168-3914 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk owner Sabah GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation Agriculture Biodiversity Invasive species Land use Borneo Agricultural landscapes Canopy cover Tropical rainforest Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil Oil palm Logging Forest fragmentation Forest degradation Conservation set-aside Flora otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Waddell, E.H., Chapman, D.S., Hill, J.K., Hughes, M., Bin Sailim, A., Tangah, J., Banin, L.F. (2020). Occurrence of exotic plant species in oil palm dominated landscapes with embedded rainforest remnants in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, 2019. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/372861ee-67c5-4bb3-b765-cf8c03c06199 textTable 13 English utf8 biota environment farming 2019-03-02 2019-04-08 116.775 118.621 4.976 6.353 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/372861ee-67c5-4bb3-b765-cf8c03c06199 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/372861ee-67c5-4bb3-b765-cf8c03c06199.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Field surveys were conducted in July to October 2017 and February to April 2019. The 21 sites were all in Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil-certified oil palm plantations. Rainforest remnants, where the forest transects were conducted, were mostly isolated forest fragments (n=15 sites) and six sites were connected to larger tracts of forest reserves outside the oil palm plantation boundary. At each site, exotic plants were surveyed along 100 m transect in up to four habitats, oil palm (n=21 transects), forest-oil palm edge (n=21), disturbed forest (n=20) and intact forest (n=16). Four rainforest remnants were very small and disturbed and therefore had no ‘intact forest’ and in one site the forest interior was not accessible. All plants were identified to species and their exotic status confirmed with the help of experienced local botanists and species lists compiled from literature. In total 18 exotic species were recorded, made up of forbs, climbers and shrubs, no exotic trees were detected and graminoids were not included due to difficulties with identification. Intentionally planted exotic species (i.e. leguminous cover crop, Calopogonium mucunoides) were also excluded. The dataset also includes measurements of forest structure (e.g. canopy cover and number of native large trees) along the length of each transect.