Annotated list of observed birds in W and Pendjari Reserves in Benin, February 2010

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Latest version published by GBIF Benin on Feb 17, 2017 GBIF Benin
Publication date:
17 February 2017
Published by:
GBIF Benin
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CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Annotated list of birds observed around ponds, waterfalls, rivers and other areas inside W and Pendjari Reserves in Benin from 3 to 17 february 2010. The data were entered from litterature written by Dowsett-Lemarre Françoise and Dowsett J. Robert after an inventory in the two parks. The textual location where each bird was observed was described, and allow the digitization team to georeference the occurrences. The scientific names provided in the book were submitted to ITIS Taxonomic match tool to obtain the accepted name and the parent name. The non matches names were checked online in the Ecncyclopedia of life. The names, as written by the author were stored in the field ScientificName, while the accepted name were stored in acceptedNameUsage.

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Gangnibo, C.N., Gbetoho A.J. & Ganglo, C.J., 2016. Annotated list of observed birds in W and Pendjari Reserves in Benin, february 2010. Laboratory of Forest Sciences, FSA-UAC.

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is GBIF Benin. 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: 025769ee-df28-40de-bead-69fe1259bbad.  GBIF Benin publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Benin.

Keywords

Annotated list; birds; W and Pendjari Reserves; Benin

Contacts

Alain Jaures Gbetoho
  • Originator
University of Abomey-Calavi. Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. Laboratoire des Sciences Forestières/Université d’Abomey-Calavi (LSF/UAC)
BP 393 Cotonou
229 Calavi
Atlantique
BJ
Charles Gangnibo
  • Metadata Provider
  • Point Of Contact
University of Abomey-Calavi/FSA/Laboratory of Forest Sciences
BP 1493 Abomey-Calavi
229 Calavi
Atlantique
BJ
+22997398973
Jean Cossi Ganglo
  • User
Professor
Laboratory of Forest Sciences
BP 1493 Abomey-Calavi
Calavi
BJ
+22994578915

Geographic Coverage

Annotated list of birds observed around ponds, waterfalls, rivers and other areas inside W and Pendjari Reserves in Benin from 3 to 17 february 2010. The data were entered from litterature written by Dowsett-Lemarre Françoise and Dowsett J. Robert after an inventory in the two parks. The textual location where each bird was observed was described, and allow the digitization team to georeference the occurrences. The scientific names provided in the book were submitted to ITIS Taxonomic match tool to obtain the accepted name and the parent name. The non matches names were checked online in the Ecncyclopedia of life. The names, as written by the author were stored in the field ScientificName, while the accepted name were stored in acceptedNameUsage.

Bounding Coordinates South West [10.89, 0.96], North East [12.27, 2.92]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Animals (Birds)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2010-02-03 / 2010-02-17

Project Data

No Description available

Title Gathering of biodiversity data on bird species for their sustainable management in Benin
Identifier BID-AF2015-0044-SMA

The personnel involved in the project:

Charles Nounagnon GANGNIBO

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Dowsett-Lemarre Françoise & Dowsett J. Robert. Liste annotée des oiseaux observés aux Parcs du W et de la Pendjari (Bénin), février 2010. Dowsett-Lemaire Misc. Resp. 72 (2010). 20 pages.

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 025769ee-df28-40de-bead-69fe1259bbad
http://ipt-benin.gbif.fr/resource?r=bid_gangnibo