Dataset from plant survey in the KNUST Botanic Garden

This dataset represents the raw data collected for a study of plant composition and diversity in a12.9 ha moist semi-deciduous forest in the urban landcape of Kumasi, the city capital of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Since 1960, the forest ecosytem has been gazetted and managed as a botanic garden, known as the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Botanic Garden, to preserve its rich flora for environmental education, research and recreation. The KNUST Botanic Garden has therefore remained untouched, despite progressive land cover change or developmental activities (settlements and  building facilities) that characterizes the  KNUST campus within which the garden is located. The dataset was  generated from a field survey conducted in December 2019 to to gather relevant information on plant parameters (species, dbh, height)  from two distinct microsites (upland and inundated) of the garden. This dataset was first anlysed to generate results that permitted the writing...