Invasive Alien Plants in the Kailash Sacred Landscape

Study Extent

Roadside Survey in the Kailash Sacred Landscape, Nepal area. All the major road sections within KSL-Nepal which reach to the district headquarters of Baitadi (Dasharath Chand Municipality), Bajhang (Chainpur), and Darchula (Khalanga) were covered during the survey. In addition to KSL-Nepal, we surveyed about 50 km of road stretch in Dharchula, India, near the Nepal-India border next to Darchula District

Sampling

Roadside Survey

Quality Control

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Method steps

1. The occurrence of IAPS was examined in a 10 m × 10 m plot of the roadside vegetation at 10 km intervals (at some places where elevation changed rapidly, the interval was 5 km). In between these sampling locations, occasional observations of less common IAPS were also recorded. At each sampling location, the name of the IAPS present, land use type, aspect, elevation, and geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) were recorded. In addition to the roadside survey, the occurrence of the IAPS was also recorded along main trail in Chamelia Valley and Khar VDC.

The dataset contains occurrences of IAPs from Magnoliopsida and Liliopsida class of Tracheophyta phylum

1. Magnoliopsida
   rank: class
2. Liliopsida
   rank: class

Kailash Sacred Landscape-Nepal