Mt. Kenya Inventory Surveys 2009

Occurrence
Latest version published by Kenya Wildlife Service on Jan 31, 2019 Kenya Wildlife Service
Publication date:
31 January 2019
Published by:
Kenya Wildlife Service
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Mt. Kenya inventory surveys was carried out by various stakeholders to determine biodiversity 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): Mt. Kenya Inventory Surveys 2009. v1.5. Kenya Wildlife Service. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=mt_kenya&v=1.5

Rights

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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: fa443019-139e-4123-8a77-a75e950908fa.  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 ●
  • Originator
Senior GIS Technician
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 2009-06-30

Project Data

The Mt. Kenya inventory was carried out to determine the biodiversity richness of the ecosystem.

Title Mt. Kenya Inventory Surveys 2009
Identifier BID-AF2015-0035-NAC
Funding Kenya Government and its partners Dataset publication funded by GBIF, BID-AF2015-0035-NAC.
Study Area Description Mt. Kenya Ecosystem
Design Description Stakeholder's participation approach.

The personnel involved in the project:

Luke Lukaria
  • User

Sampling Methods

The use of transects

Study Extent Mt. Kenya Ecosystem
Quality Control Data processed by the GIS team

Method step description:

  1. The exercise to be repeated after every three years depending on the availability of funds

Additional Metadata

Purpose To determine biodiversity richness within Mt. Kenya ecosystem
Alternative Identifiers fa443019-139e-4123-8a77-a75e950908fa
http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=mt_kenya