Ground Census Data for Lake Nakuru and Nairobi National Parks

Occurrence Observation
Latest version published by Kenya Wildlife Service on Feb 2, 2019 Kenya Wildlife Service
Publication date:
2 February 2019
Published by:
Kenya Wildlife Service
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Wildlife Census data for Lake Nakuru National Park and Nairobi National Park.

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 2,018 records.

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

kws@kws.go.ke (2018): Ground Census Data for Lake Nakuru and Nairobi National Parks. v1.1. Kenya Wildlife Service. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=kws_nakurunairobinatlparks_grndcensus

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Kenya Wildlife Service. 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: 4ec9e37d-1af5-4dc2-9c2f-97fcf5f22867.  Kenya Wildlife Service publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation; Occurrence; Observation

Contacts

Joseph Mukeka
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Senior Scientist GIS and Database
Kenya Wildlife Service
  • P. O. Box 40241 00100
00100 Nairobi
Nairobi
KE
Peter Hongo
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator
  • Senior GIS Officer
Kenya Wildlife Service
  • P. O. Box 40241 00100
00100 Nairobi
Nairobi
KE
Patrick Omondi
  • Point Of Contact
  • Director - Biodiversity Research and Monitoring
Kenya Wildlife Service
  • P. O. Box 40241 00100
00100 Nairobi
Nairobi
KE
Patrick Omondi
  • Point Of Contact
  • Director Biodiversity Research and Monitoring
Kenya Wildlife Service
  • P. O. Box 40241 00100
00100 Nairobi
Nairobi
KE
David Bloom
  • Programmer
  • VertNet Coordinator
VertNet

Geographic Coverage

Republic of Kenya

Bounding Coordinates South West [-5, 34], North East [5, 42]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Class Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia

Project Data

Wildlife census

Title GROUND CENSUS DATA FOR LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK AND NAIROBI NATIONAL PARK
Identifier BID-AF2015-0035-NAC
Funding Kenya Government and its partners Dataset publication funded by GBIF, BID-AF2015-0035-NAC.
Study Area Description Nairobi National Park and Lake Nakuru National Park
Design Description Training followed by actual census

The personnel involved in the project:

Elphas Bitok
  • User
Alice Bett
  • User

Sampling Methods

Road count

Study Extent Nairobi National Park and Lake Nakuru National Park ecosystems
Quality Control Data processed after the census and double counts removed

Method step description:

  1. Census carried out after every two months.

Additional Metadata

Purpose

To determine wildlife abundance in the protected areas
Maintenance Description Census carried out after every two months
Alternative Identifiers 4ec9e37d-1af5-4dc2-9c2f-97fcf5f22867
http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=kws_nakurunairobinatlparks_grndcensus