checklist-of-mammals-of-liwonde-national-park

Cornell O. Dudley1, D. Stead2, Blessings Chingagwe3, Cornell D. Dudley4, D. Stead1, Tiwonge Gawa1

1 Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi, Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi, 1429, Blantyre, Malawi; 2 Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi, Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi, 1429, Lilongwe, Malawi; 3 Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi, Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi, 30293, Lilongwe, Malawi; 4 Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi, Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi, P.O Box 30293, 1429, Blantyre, Malawi

Corresponding author(s): Cornell O. Dudley (blechingagwe@gmail.com)D. Stead (blechingagwe@gmail.com), Blessings Chingagwe (blechingagwe@gmail.com)

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Resource Citation

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

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Checklist, Liwonde National Park, WESM, mammals, Nyala, derived from occurrence, Derivedfromoccurrence

Project details

Project title: Enhancing accessibility of Biodiversity Data in Malawi
Personnel: Blessings Chingagwe, Tiwonge Gawa
Funding: JRS Foundation
Study area descriptions/descriptor: 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.

Data published through GBIF: http://196.32.215.240:8081/ipt/resource?r=checklist-of-mammals-of-liwonde-national-park

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: This resource give a brief description of the then major mammal groups within Liwonde National park. The smaller mammals needed an intensive investigation.
Taxonomic ranks
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.

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Liwonde is in Machinga District in the eastern region of Malawi
Coordinates: 15°12'57.6''S and 15°2'16.8''S Latitude; 35°9'3.6''E and 35°31'12''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1972

Methods

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.
Study extent description: Liwonde National Park is in Machinga district. The data was collected when the national park had just been established as a protected area.
Sampling description: 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.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive checklist-of-mammals-of-liwonde-national-park
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://196.32.215.240:8081/ipt/archive.do?r=checklist-of-mammals-of-liwonde-national-park
Publication date of data: 2022-05-31
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-10-31
Hierarchy level: Dataset