checklist-of-mammals-of-liwonde-national-park
Latest version published by Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi on May 31, 2022
The resource basically covers much about the larger mammals of Liwonde National Park. By the time this resource was developed, no proper research had been conducted about the mammals of the national park. Even this time when this research was conducted, a lot of larger mammals had already disappeared but the variety was still high.
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 30 records.
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.
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| Data as a DwC-A file | download 30 records in English (5 KB) - Update frequency: as needed |
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| Metadata as an EML file | download in English (17 KB) |
| Metadata as an RTF file | download in English (10 KB) |
Versions
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Dudley C O, Stead D (2018): checklist-of-mammals-of-liwonde-national-park. v1.2. Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi. Dataset/Occurrence. http://196.32.215.240:8081/ipt/resource?r=checklist-of-mammals-of-liwonde-national-park&v=1.2
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 6beeffee-3fa7-45e9-97f3-e7605e58dff3. Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Malawi.
Keywords
Checklist; Liwonde National Park; WESM; mammals; Nyala; derived from occurrence; Derivedfromoccurrence
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Geographic Coverage
Liwonde is in Machinga District in the eastern region of Malawi
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-15.216, 35.151], North East [-15.038, 35.52] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
This resource give a brief description of the then major mammal groups within Liwonde National park. The smaller mammals needed an intensive investigation.
| Genus | Connochaetes, Taurotragus, Equus, Syncerus, Loxodonta, Hippopotamus, Kobus, Hippotragus, Tragelaphus, Aepyceros, Ourebia, Tragelaphus, Oreotragus, Sylvicapra, Raphicerus, Panthera, Crocuta, Panthera, Canis, Phacochoerus, Potamochoerus, Orycteropus, Mellivora, Civettictis, Lepus, Alcelaphus, Hystrix, Paraxerus, Papio, Galago spp. |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date | 1972-01-01 |
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Project Data
The project aims at mobilizing biodiversity data and making it accessible to the public in standards that are recommended internationally.
| Title | Enhancing accessibility of Biodiversity Data in Malawi |
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| Identifier | African Biodiversity Challenge 2018 |
| Funding | JRS Foundation |
| Study Area Description | Liwonde National Park is located within Machinga District along the Shire River, north of Liwonde Township. The Park's western boundary incorporates 24.14KM of the Shire River form the Likwenu River inlet and railway north to the base of Lake Malombe, the north-east to the Mangochi Forest Reserve. |
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Sampling Methods
The inventory of both plants and animals of Liwonde National Park actively involved research work of the students of Chancellor College. The inventory was conducted before the park was publicly declared a national park.
| Study Extent | Liwonde National Park is in Machinga district. The data was collected when the national park had just been established as a protected area. |
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Method step description:
- Literature does not outline methods undertaken to produce this resource. Probably, the step by step description of the research can be found in the students academic papers at Chancellor College.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 6beeffee-3fa7-45e9-97f3-e7605e58dff3 |
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| http://196.32.215.240:8081/ipt/resource?r=checklist-of-mammals-of-liwonde-national-park |