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 of a master thesis. 
The robust methods and quality of data permitted subsequent use
of the results for developing of a manuscript. This
manuscript which is entiled "The Role of Urban Tropical Botanic
Gardens in Biodiversity Conservation: An Example from the KNUST Botanic
Garden in Kumasi, Ghana" has been accepted for publication
in Biotropica.