Marsabit Ecosystem Inventory Surveys 2014

Occurrence Observation
Latest version published by Kenya Wildlife Service on Jan 31, 2019 Kenya Wildlife Service
Publication date:
31 January 2019
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Description

Marsabit Ecosystem Inventory surveys in 2014 was conducted to determine species richness in the ecosystem

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Mukeka J, Hongo P (2018): Marsabit Ecosystem Inventory Surveys 2014. v1.4. Kenya Wildlife Service. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=marsabit&v=1.4

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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: a4b78c0c-97ef-47b6-acfa-6b3a6c9a0cce.  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

Contacts

Joseph Mukeka
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • SS-GIS and Database
Kenya Wildlife Service
  • P. O. Box 40241
00100 Nairobi
Nairobi
KE
Peter Hongo
  • Metadata Provider
  • Senior GIS Technician
Kenya Wildlife Service
  • P. O. Box 40241
00100 Nairobi
Nairobi
KE
Peter Hongo
  • Metadata Provider
  • Senior GIS Officer
Kenya Wildlife Service
  • P. O. Box 40241
00100 Nairobi
Nairobi
KE
Patrick Omondi
  • Point Of Contact
  • Director- Biodiversity Research and Planning
Kenya Wildlife Service
  • P. O. Box 40241
00100 Nairobi
Nairobi
KE
Patrick Omondi
  • Point Of Contact
  • Director - Biodiversity Research and Monitoring
Kenya Wildlife Service
  • P. O. Box 40241
00100 Nairobi
Nairobi
KE

Geographic Coverage

Republic of Kenya

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

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2014-05-30 / 2014-10-30

Project Data

Marsabit Ecosystem Inventory Surveys covered the observation of the following Mammalia,Amphibia, Insecta, Aves and Reptilia.

Title Marsabit Ecosystem Inventory Surveys
Identifier BID-AF2015-0035-NAC
Funding Kenya Government and its partners Dataset publication funded by GBIF, BID-AF2015-0035-NAC.
Study Area Description Marsabit Ecosystem
Design Description Many conservation organizations such as National Museums of Kenya and Nature Kenya were involved in the surveys

The personnel involved in the project:

Israel Makau
  • User

Sampling Methods

Transects were used in data acquisition

Study Extent Marsabit Ecosystem
Quality Control Data processing was carried out by the GIS team

Method step description:

  1. The exercise will be carried out again after three years depending on the availability of funds

Additional Metadata

Purpose

To determine biodiversity richness within Marsabit Ecosystem.
Alternative Identifiers a4b78c0c-97ef-47b6-acfa-6b3a6c9a0cce
http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=marsabit