• NERC Data Catalogue Service
  •  
  •  
  •  

Plant biodiversity data and environmental and spatial data from Jebel Ichkeul, a limestone mountain in northern Tunisia (1983)

Records for herbaceous and woody plants at 78 nested quadrats on a limestone mountain (Jebel Ichkeul) in Le Parc National de L’Ichkeul are presented. Data for plants represent percent cover (Braun-Blanquet scale), to identify environmental gradients and investigate phytosociology of plant communities. Environmental variables are also presented: altitude, slope, aspect, rock out cropping, index of grazing intensity (78 sites) and olive tree densities by size class (69 sites). Soil pH was collected for 50 sites. Plant surveys were done June to August 1983 by Dr. D.A. Kirk as part of his Master’s thesis degree in Conservation at University College London (1983). This work was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/4e36cdfa-0281-423f-99a8-e7c331b2e0d1

Simple

Date (Publication)
2019-07-11
Date (Creation)
1983-09-15
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/4e36cdfa-0281-423f-99a8-e7c331b2e0d1
Identifier
doi: / 10.5285/4e36cdfa-0281-423f-99a8-e7c331b2e0d1
Other citation details
Kirk, D.A., Hébert, K., Goldsmith, F.B. (2019). Plant biodiversity data and environmental and spatial data from Jebel Ichkeul, a limestone mountain in northern Tunisia (1983). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/4e36cdfa-0281-423f-99a8-e7c331b2e0d1
Custodian
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Publisher
  NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
Point of contact
  University College London - Kirk, D.A.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3080-1058
Author
  University College London - Kirk, D.A.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3080-1058
Author
  Université de Sherbrooke - Hébert, K.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7866-6775
Author
  University College London - Goldsmith, F.B.
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
© University College of London
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
© Université de Sherbrooke
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Kirk, D.A., Hébert, K., Goldsmith, F.B. (2019). Plant biodiversity data and environmental and spatial data from Jebel Ichkeul, a limestone mountain in northern Tunisia (1983). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/4e36cdfa-0281-423f-99a8-e7c331b2e0d1
Spatial representation type
textTable Text, table
Denominator
0
Distance
1  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Biota
Begin date
1983-06-18
End date
1983-08-07
N
S
E
W
thumbnail


Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • Comma-separated values (CSV) ()

Distributor
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
OnLine resource
Download the data

Download a copy of this data

OnLine resource
Supporting information

Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset

Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Other
dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
78 quadrats were located, stratified using previous data and vegetation maps of the area for guidance. At each site, a thrown quadrat was used to randomly locate the central stake. A nested quadrat design was used. Percent cover was recorded using the Braun Blanquet scale. Plants not identified in the field were collected and compared to specimens at the herbarium in Tunis or the British Museum herbarium. At each quadrat location grazing intensity was ranked on the principal woody plant species. At each quadrat a number of environmental variables were collected: altitude, slope, aspect, rock out cropping, index of grazing intensity (78 sites) and olive tree densities by size class (69 sites). Soil pH was collected for 50 sites. Data was recorded on field sheets and then transposed to Excel spreadsheets. The data were exported to comma separated value files (csv) for deposition into the EIDC.
File identifier
4e36cdfa-0281-423f-99a8-e7c331b2e0d1 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Hierarchy level name
dataset
Date stamp
2025-11-13T16:22:29
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg , Lancaster , LA1 4AP , UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W
thumbnail


Keywords


Provided by

logo

Share on social sites

Access to the portal
Read here the full details and access to the data.

Associated resources

Not available


  •  
  •  
  •