DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11543911
title: African wood density database with matches to the taxonomic backbone data sets of World Flora Online (version 2023.12) and the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (version 11)

description: The African Wood Density Database provides air-dry wood density data for over 750 tree species grown in Africa.

This archive provides taxonomic matches with recent versions of World Flora Online (WFO; version 2023.12 downloaded from Zenodo; Borch et al. 2020) and the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP; version 11 downloaded from the Kew data depository; Govaerts et al. 2021). Matching was done via the WorldFlora package (version 1.14-3; Kindt 2020), using similar scripts as documented in this Rpub: https://rpubs.com/Roeland-KINDT/1134151.

 



Carsan, S. Orwa, C. Harwood, C. Kindt, R. Stroebel, A. Neufeldt, H. and Jamnadass, R. 2012. African Wood Density Database. World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi. https://apps.worldagroforestry.org/treesnmarkets/wood/# 

Borsch, T., Berendsohn, W., Dalcin, E., Delmas, M., Demissew, S., Elliott, A., Fritsch, P., Fuchs, A., Geltman, D., Güner, A., Haevermans, T., Knapp, S., le Roux, M.M., Loizeau, P.-A., Miller, C., Miller, J., Miller, J.T., Palese, R., Paton, A., Parnell, J., Pendry, C., Qin, H.-N., Sosa, V., Sosef, M., von Raab-Straube, E., Ranwashe, F., Raz, L., Salimov, R., Smets, E., Thiers, B., Thomas, W., Tulig, M., Ulate, W., Ung, V., Watson, M., Jackson, P.W. and Zamora, N. (2020), World Flora Online: Placing taxonomists at the heart of a definitive and comprehensive global resource on the world's plants. TAXON, 69: 1311-1341. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12373

Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N. et al. The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. Sci Data 8, 215 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6

Kindt, R. 2020. WorldFlora: An R package for exact and fuzzy matching of plant names against the World Flora Online taxonomic backbone data. Applications in Plant Sciences 8(9): e11388. https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11388


 

Original funding for the database was provided by the Carbon Benefits Project (CBP) supported by The Global Environment Facility (GEF). Development of the 2024 version was supported by the Darwin Initiative to project DAREX001 of Developing a Global Biodiversity Standard certification for tree-planting and restoration, by Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative through the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ethiopia to the Provision of Adequate Tree Seed Portfolio project in Ethiopia, by the Green Climate Fund through the IUCN-led Transforming the Eastern Province of Rwanda through Adaptation project and through the Readiness proposal on Climate Appropriate Portfolios of Tree Diversity for Burkina Faso, by the Bezos Earth Fund to the Bezos Quality Tree Seed for Africa in Kenya and Rwanda project and by the German International Climate Initiative (IKI) to the regional tree seed programme on The Right Tree for the Right Place for the Right Purpose in Africa. When using African Wood Density database in your work, cite the 2012 version (Carsan et al. 2012) as well as this repository using the DOI.