Taxonomic and ecological database of trees of Western Ghats - TreeGhatsData

Valérie Raevel (1) , Narayanan Ayyappan (1) , Natesan Balachandran (1) , Soupramanien Aravajy (1) , N. Barathan (1) , B.R. Ramesh (1) , François Munoz (1)

1 IFP - Institut Français de Pondichéry

TreeGhatsData is a compilation of lists of tree taxa found in Western Ghats, South India: taxa for which the word "tree" appears in habit description in the book Flowering plants of the Western Ghats edited by the Tropical Botanic Garden Research Institute (TBGRI), including planted or cultivated taxa (Nayar, Beegam, and Sibi. 2014); tree taxa described after 2014 in journal articles; taxon names used in forest surveys published by the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP), in journal articles from 2000, and in the Atlas of endemics of the Western Ghats (Ramesh and Pascal 1997); taxon names reported with "tree" habit in Indian Biodiversity Portal (http://indiabiodiversity.org/).

Mots clés: Ecology; Biogeography; IUCN; Western Ghats; Tree; Taxonomy

Domaines: Botanique; Systématique, phylogénie et taxonomie; Sylviculture, foresterie

Valérie Raevel, Narayanan Ayyappan, Natesan Balachandran, Soupramanien Aravajy, N. Barathan, et al.. Taxonomic and ecological database of trees of Western Ghats - TreeGhatsData. 2018. ⟨hal-01824264⟩