Description
The Mission LAVIA is an unprecedented, scientific and human itinerant expedition in West Africa, led and supported by six young French people from the Blairoudeurs Federation. The mission, planned in its field phase between May and August 2024, has as its object of study and common thread the chiroptera (bats). The entire field part of this expedition was carried out in an all-terrain vehicle from May 8 to August 2, 2024 in a round trip between Plougonvelin (29217, France) and Seredou (Guinea). Three main objectives are targeted through this operation. 1. The acquisition of scientific data (inventories by mist net captures, biometric measurements, prospecting of roosts, acoustic recordings, exchanges with locals) very largely incomplete on these bats in the many biomes, protected areas and villages that make up West Africa (Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal and Guinea) with the cooperation of NGOs and local institutions.2. The wide dissemination and popularization of knowledge relating to this group of little-known or even mystified species and the exchange of knowledge with local populations. This work is carried out by strong link with the structures of the African territory through the network of the Francophonie and youth (capacity building of protected areas, participation of locals in study methodologies, organization of university conferences and school interventions, etc.). 3. The post-mission valorization of this expedition by the production of a documentary film (produced by two graduates of the Institut Francophone de Formation au Cinema Animalier de Menigoute (IFFCAM)), an artistic edition relating this naturalist and human experience (created by a student of the Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier), a scientific report presenting the mission results and the very wide dissemination of the data collected to the scientific and public spheres (GBIF global database, park agents, chiropterologists, etc.).
Data Records
The data in this occurrence 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 339 records.
2 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:
Heinrich K, Ruchon M, Noël T, GBIF France (2025). Mission LAVIA 2024 : traveling study of West African bats. Version 1.3. Blairoudeurs. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.gbif.fr/resource?r=mission_lavia_2024&v=1.3
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Blairoudeurs. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 233bcb90-3f32-40c5-a292-7c35093da743. Blairoudeurs publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF France.
Keywords
Chiroptera; West Africa; Protected Areas; Expedition; Occurrence
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Geographic Coverage
West Africa, from northern Morocco to southern Guinea via Mauritania and Senegal.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [8.358, -16.764], North East [30.591, -9.284] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Order | Chiroptera |
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| Family | Rhinopomatidae, Pteropodidae, Emballonuridae, Rhinolophidae, Vespertilionidae, Miniopteridae, Molossidae, Hipposideridae, Nycteridae |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2024-05-03 / 2024-07-18 |
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Additional Metadata
| Acknowledgements | The Mission LAVIA is a voluntary initiative. Its realization is possible thanks to the support of several technical and financial partners: French Office for Biodiversity (OFB), Biotope Foundation, Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, AgroParisTech Foundation, Zeiss France, GYBN, crowdfunding (HelloAsso). |
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| Alternative Identifiers | 233bcb90-3f32-40c5-a292-7c35093da743 |
| https://ipt.gbif.fr/resource?r=mission_lavia_2024 |