Description
7 days of field survey from 12th to 20th of March, 2021 to assess the availability of palatable browse for the black rhinoceros (woody, forb & liana species below two meters) in Murchinson Falls National Park & Bugungu Wildlife Reserve
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 43 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Goodman, P.S. (2021) An assessment of the habitat suitability and carrying capacity of black rhinoceros in Murchison Falls National Park. Unpublished report. TotalEnergies & UWA, Kampala Uganda.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is TotalEnergies. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: ade77a46-8cb4-4950-909c-88475ef7c2ea. TotalEnergies publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF France.
Keywords
Samplingevent; Samplingevent
Contacts
- Originator
- Wildlife Ecologist
- Originator
- Botanical Ecologist & Taxonomist
- Metadata Provider
- Exploration & Production Biodiversity Coordinator
- Point Of Contact
- Group Biodiversity Specialist, Senior Environment Delegate
- User
Geographic Coverage
Uganda - Murchinson Falls National Park & Bugungu Wildlife Reserve
Bounding Coordinates | South West [-1.099, 28.74], North East [4.04, 35.156] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
Kingdom | Plantae |
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Temporal Coverage
Start Date / End Date | 2021-03-12 / 2021-03-20 |
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Sampling Methods
A physical survey of 43 circular plots of 700 m2 placed near but out of the sphere of influence of the available access roads in the Park: 24 north of the Victoria Nile and 19 south of the Victoria Nile including 6 in the Bugungu Wildlife Reserve Field. Data were captured manually.
Study Extent | Murchinson Falls National Park & Bugungu Wildlife Reserve. Sample sites were grouped by region : North Park West, North Park East, South Park West, South Park Central and Bugungu Wildlife Reserve. |
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Method step description:
- Establishement of circular plots
- Within the plot: identification & recording of all identifiable woody, forb and liana species below 2 meters
Additional Metadata
Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.gbif.fr/resource?r=blackrhinosuitabilitystudy |
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