Snapshot Safari: A large-scale collaborative to monitor Africa's remarkable biodiversity
- Pardo, Lain E, Bombaci, Sara, Huebner, Sarah E, Somers, Michael J, Fritz, Herve, Downs, Colleen, Guthmann, Abby, Hetem, Robyn S, Keith, Mark, le Roux, Aliza, Mgqatsa, Nokubonga, Packer, Craig, Palmer, Meredith S, Parker, Daniel M, Peel, Mike, Slotow, Rob, Strauss, W. Maartin, Swanepoel, Lourens, Tambling, Craig, Tsie, Nairobi, Vermeulen, Mika, Willi, Marco, Jachowski, David S, Venter, Jan A
- Authors: Pardo, Lain E , Bombaci, Sara , Huebner, Sarah E , Somers, Michael J , Fritz, Herve , Downs, Colleen , Guthmann, Abby , Hetem, Robyn S , Keith, Mark , le Roux, Aliza , Mgqatsa, Nokubonga , Packer, Craig , Palmer, Meredith S , Parker, Daniel M , Peel, Mike , Slotow, Rob , Strauss, W. Maartin , Swanepoel, Lourens , Tambling, Craig , Tsie, Nairobi , Vermeulen, Mika , Willi, Marco , Jachowski, David S , Venter, Jan A
- Date: 2021
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/462669 , vital:76324 , xlink:href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2021/8134"
- Description: Nature is experiencing degradation and extinction rates never recorded before in the history of Earth. Consequently, continuous large-scale monitoring programmes are critical, not only to provide insights into population trends but also to aid in understanding factors associated with altering population dynamics at various temporal and spatial scales. Continuous monitoring is important not only for tracking rare or threatened species but also to detect the increase of potentially invasive species4, and the trends in the populations of common species, which in some regions are declining even more rapidly than are rare species. The combination of citizen science and cutting-edge technologies has improved monitoring programmes. In this regard, camera traps have become a popular tool to engage with society while obtaining accurate scientific data. The importance of advances in technological monitoring has even been highlighted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) through the proposed 'Digital Ecosystem framework', a complex distributed network or interconnected socio-technological system.
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- Date Issued: 2021
- Authors: Pardo, Lain E , Bombaci, Sara , Huebner, Sarah E , Somers, Michael J , Fritz, Herve , Downs, Colleen , Guthmann, Abby , Hetem, Robyn S , Keith, Mark , le Roux, Aliza , Mgqatsa, Nokubonga , Packer, Craig , Palmer, Meredith S , Parker, Daniel M , Peel, Mike , Slotow, Rob , Strauss, W. Maartin , Swanepoel, Lourens , Tambling, Craig , Tsie, Nairobi , Vermeulen, Mika , Willi, Marco , Jachowski, David S , Venter, Jan A
- Date: 2021
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/462669 , vital:76324 , xlink:href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2021/8134"
- Description: Nature is experiencing degradation and extinction rates never recorded before in the history of Earth. Consequently, continuous large-scale monitoring programmes are critical, not only to provide insights into population trends but also to aid in understanding factors associated with altering population dynamics at various temporal and spatial scales. Continuous monitoring is important not only for tracking rare or threatened species but also to detect the increase of potentially invasive species4, and the trends in the populations of common species, which in some regions are declining even more rapidly than are rare species. The combination of citizen science and cutting-edge technologies has improved monitoring programmes. In this regard, camera traps have become a popular tool to engage with society while obtaining accurate scientific data. The importance of advances in technological monitoring has even been highlighted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) through the proposed 'Digital Ecosystem framework', a complex distributed network or interconnected socio-technological system.
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- Date Issued: 2021
Bat species richness and community composition along a mega-transect in the Okavango river basin:
- Weier, Sina M, Keith, Mark, Neef, Götz G, Parker, Daniel M, Taylor, Peter J
- Authors: Weier, Sina M , Keith, Mark , Neef, Götz G , Parker, Daniel M , Taylor, Peter J
- Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149264 , vital:38820 , https://doi.org/10.3390/d12050188
- Description: The Okavango River Basin is a hotspot of bat diversity that requires urgent and adequate protection. To advise future conservation strategies, we investigated the relative importance of a range of potential environmental drivers of bat species richness and functional community composition in the Okavango River Basin. During annual canoe transects along the major rivers, originating in the central Angolan highlands, we recorded more than 25,000 bat echolocation calls from 2015 to 2018. We corrected for possible biases in sampling design and effort.
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- Date Issued: 2020
- Authors: Weier, Sina M , Keith, Mark , Neef, Götz G , Parker, Daniel M , Taylor, Peter J
- Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149264 , vital:38820 , https://doi.org/10.3390/d12050188
- Description: The Okavango River Basin is a hotspot of bat diversity that requires urgent and adequate protection. To advise future conservation strategies, we investigated the relative importance of a range of potential environmental drivers of bat species richness and functional community composition in the Okavango River Basin. During annual canoe transects along the major rivers, originating in the central Angolan highlands, we recorded more than 25,000 bat echolocation calls from 2015 to 2018. We corrected for possible biases in sampling design and effort.
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- Date Issued: 2020
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