Liberia Forest Elephant National Action Plan Data

Benedictus Freeman1

1 Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, 1301 West 24th Street, 66046, Lawrence, United States

Corresponding author(s): Benedictus Freeman (benedictusfreeman@gmail.com)

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Resource Citation

Freeman B (2018): Liberia Forest Elephant National Action Plan Data. v1. Fauna & Flora International and Forestry Development Authority. Dataset/Occurrence. http://197.189.235.147:8080/iptliberia/resource?r=liberiaforestelephantdata&amp;v=1.0

Abstract

This dataset consists of nationwide data on Forest elephant in Liberia collected during the development of the Liberia Forest elephant National Action Plan. The dataset includes recent occurrence records for the species collected through systematic surveys across the country and historical records gathered from interviews with communities.

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation

Project details

Project title: Building Capacity for Biodiversity Data Mobilization and Conservation in Liberia
Personnel: Benedictus Freeman
Funding: This project is funded by the European Union Commission and GBIF.
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Data mobilized from this project covered all taxa in Liberia from mainly observational studies.
Design description: The project goal is to mobilize and publish Liberian biodiversity data.

Data published through GBIF: http://197.189.235.147:8080/iptliberia/resource?r=liberiaforestelephantdata

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Species: Loxodonta cyclotis

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Nationwide
Coordinates: 4°52'19.2''N and 8°34'51.6''N Latitude; 11°8'24''W and 7°25'37.2''W Longitude 

Formation period: 2000 to 2016 and historical records

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Liberia Forest Elephant National Action Plan Data
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://197.189.235.147:8080/iptliberia/archive.do?r=liberiaforestelephantdata
Publication date of data: 2019-03-30
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-08-11
Hierarchy level: Dataset