Availability of browse in Murchinson Falls National Park & Bugungu Wildlife Reserve

Peter S. Goodman1, James Kalema2, Antoine Escalas3, . TOTAL4

1 International Conservation Services, , South Africa; 2 Makerere University, , Uganda; 3 TotalEnergies, , France; 4 

Corresponding author(s): Peter S. GoodmanJames Kalema, Antoine Escalas (antoine.escalas@totalenergies.com)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

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 Unpublished report.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.

Abstract

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

Keywords: Samplingevent, Samplingevent

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.gbif.fr/resource?r=blackrhinosuitabilitystudy

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Plantae

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Uganda - Murchinson Falls National Park & Bugungu Wildlife Reserve
Coordinates: 1°5'56.4''S and 4°2'24''N Latitude; 28°44'24''E and 35°9'21.6''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: March 12, 2021 - March 20, 2021

Methods

Method step description: 
- . 	Establishement of circular plots
- . 	Within the plot: identification & recording of all identifiable woody, forb and liana species below 2 meters
Study extent description: 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.
Sampling description: 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.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Availability of browse in Murchinson Falls National Park & Bugungu Wildlife Reserve
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.gbif.fr/archive.do?r=blackrhinosuitabilitystudy
Publication date of data: 2021-09-10
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2021-09-03
Hierarchy level: Dataset