Checklist of shrubs and trees in Mabira forest reserve, Uganda

Description These data were collected by the Forest Department of Uganda under the ‘Natural Forest Management and Conservation Project’ (No. 6100.37.42.015) and the project of ‘Institutional Support for the Protection of East African Biodiversity’ (UNO/RAF/006/GEF). These data were collected from 1993 to1995 and published in a series of reports edited by Howard and Davenport (1996). The data have been mobilized by the staff of the A Rocha Uganda and A Rocha International under the project "Raising the profile of data for the conservation of four forested African landscapes" funded by GBIF's BID Programme, and coordinated by ARocha Kenya. The mobilized data consists of checklist of trees and shrubs from Mabira forest reserve. The data are based on fieldwork which involved a team of botanists surveying the reserve along a series of transects, observing and searching for new species of trees and shrubs between May,1993 and March,1995.