Description
This data was collected by the Forest Department of Uganda under the ‘Natural Forest Management and Conservation Project’ (No. 6100.37.42.015) and the project of ‘Institutional Support for the Protection of East African Biodiversity’ (UNO/RAF/006/GEF). Support for this programme was provided by the EC and financed through UNDP/FAO by the Global Environmental Facility respectively. This data on moths were collected from 1993 to1995 and published in a series of reports edited by Howard and Davenport (1996).
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 9,777 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.
Versions
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Mbiro A, Lindsell J, Barahukwa A, Musiime A, Kaweesa S (2022): Occurrence of moths in eastern and central Uganda Key forests. v1.3. A Rocha Uganda. Dataset/Occurrence. https://cloud.gbif.org/africa/resource?r=occurrence-of-moths-in-eastern-and-central-uganda-key-forests&v=1.3
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is A Rocha Uganda. 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: 26b29f2d-025d-4623-8b4d-84437d742648. A Rocha Uganda publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Uganda.
Keywords
Occurrence; moths; Uganda; forests; Observation
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Geographic Coverage
The data was collected from West Bugwe and Igwe-Luvunya, plus South Busoga, , Mabira, Mpigi Mpanga, and Kisubi forest reserves.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
A total of 9794 moth occurrences were recorded. Of these, 9,333 were identified to species level and 461 were identified to genus level.
| Genus | Imrasia, Pseudaphelia, Goodia, Orthogonioptilum |
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| Species | Hippotion osiris, Basiothia medea, Deilephila nerii |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1993-05-01 / 1995-03-30 |
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Project Data
A Rocha Uganda is part of the eleven organisations that came together to mobilise, share and use biodiversity data across four African countries to help with the conservation of four forested African landscapes. These landscapes cover over 450,000 hectares of tropical forests in four countries where the A Rocha family is undertaking conservation work. The project includes five of the organisations belonging to the A Rocha family (i.e., A Rocha Uganda, A Rocha International, A Rocha Kenya, Eden Care Initiative-Nigeria, and A Rocha Ghana) as partners. Other partner organisations include; National Museum of Kenya, African Butterfly Research Institute (ABRI), Kenya Wildlife Service, National Forest Authority in Uganda, Council for Scientific Industrial Research- Food Research Institute in Ghana and A.P Leventis Ornithological Research Institute in Nigeria. With funding from JRS Biodiversity Foundation and European Union (https://european-union.europa.eu/) through the Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) program of GBIF, a regional project “Raising the profile of data for the conservation of four forested African landscapes” was initiated and its seeking to utilise biodiversity data to better conserve biodiversity-rich but threatened forests of Atewa in Ghana; key coastal forests of Kenya (Dakatcha, Taita Hills, Shimba Hills and Kaya Forests); Kwande and Oban-liku in Nigeria and Eastern Uganda key forests (West Bugwe and Igwe-Luvunya, South Busoga, Bukaleba, Mabira, Mukono, Mpanga, Mpigi and Zika Forest Reserves). The dataset “Occurrences of moths in eastern and central Uganda forests, 1993 to 1995” reports data collected under a programme of Uganda Forest Department’s Natural Forest Conservation Section to undertake biodiversity surveys in 65 of Uganda’s forests.
| Title | Raising the profile of data for the conservation of four forested African landscapes |
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| Identifier | BID-AF2020-140-REG |
| Funding | Publication of this dataset in GBIF was made possible through the BID programme of GBIF with co-funding from the JRS Biodiversity Foundation. The original fieldwork was supported by grants from the EC (“Natural Forest Management and Conservation Project” 6100.37.42.015) and from UNDP/FAO through the GEF (“Institutional Support for the Protection of East African Biodiversity” UNO/RAF/006/GEF) |
| Study Area Description | West Bugwe Forest Reserve is a central forest reserve within found in Busia district in Eastern Uganda between 00°28′30–0°35′30N and 33°54′30″–35°5′0″E. The reserve covers a total area of 3,780 hectares with an altitudinal range of 1000 - 1235 m. Igwe-Luvunya Forest Reserve lies within Bukoli county in the administrative district of Bugiri. It covers an area of 19 km2 with an altitudinal range of 1113 - 1295 m. Mabira Forest Reserve lies in the administrative districts of Buikwe, Nakifuma and Mukono. It was established under the Buganda Agreement in 1900 and occupies an area of 306 km2 with an altitudinal range of 1070 - 1340 m situated between 32’ 520 - 33’ 070 E and 0’ 240 - 0’ 350 N. It is found 54 km east of Kampala and 26 km west of Jinja. Mabira is the largest forest reserve in Central Uganda. Zika and the forest reserves of Mpigi are an archipelago of small neighboring reserves totaling some 261km2. They are situated between 10 and 60 km west of Kampala and between 2 and 50 km north of Lake Victoria in Busuju, Gomba and Singo counties in the administrative districts of Mpigi and Wakiso, between 0º0'and 0º30' N, and 31º45' and 32º30' E. During the original surveys Mpanga (an Mpigi Forest Reserve) was treated separately to the other Mpigi archipelago sites. Two other Mpigi sites are now known as Lwamunda and Gangu Forest Reserves. Zika was not a Forest Reserve at the time of the surveys but is now known as Kisubi Forest Reserve. South Busoga Forest Reserve is situated on the northern shore of Lake Victoria between 0009' and 0020’ N, and 33027’ and 33039’ E. It lies approximately 33 km south of Iganga and 24 km southeast of Jinja. The reserve lies in Bunya County in the administrative district of Mayuge. It covers an area of 164 km2, with an altitudinal range of 1140 to 1300 m. |
| Design Description | Two families of moths (Sphingidae and Saturniidae) were sampled using a 125 Watt choked Mercury Vapour lamp, mounted in a “Skinner” box trap. The trap was powered by a portable generator and operated for approximately 11 hours each night between 1915 h and 0615 h. The trap is designed to retain all moths that enter it, alive, until they are sorted in the morning. Special attention was given to searching the area around the trap each morning for any moths that had been attracted to the light but had not entered the trap and representatives of the required families were hand-collected. |
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Sampling Methods
Two families of moths (Sphingidae and Saturniidae) were sampled using a 125 Watt choked Mercury Vapour lamp, mounted in a “Skinner” box trap. The trap was powered by a portable generator and operated for approximately 11 hours each night between 1915 h and 0615 h. The trap is designed to retain all moths that enter it, alive, until they are sorted in the morning. Special attention was given to searching the area around the trap each morning for any moths that had been attracted to the light,but had not entered the trap and representatives of the required families were hand-collected.
| Study Extent | These data are an occurrence dataset of birds recorded from eastern and central Uganda forests including Mabira, South Busoga, Bukaleba, West Bugwe, Igwe-Luvunya, Mpigi, Mpanga and Zika forest reserves. |
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| Quality Control | All specimens of the families Sphingidae and Saturniidae were collected, dried and stored in paper envelopes with full data, prior to submission to the author for identification. To ensure that no representatives of the required families were inadvertently discarded, a set of photographs depicting most Ugandan species (including all genera) was provided to the moth-trap operator, and individual tuition provided on the characteristics of the families to be sampled. All specimens were examined and identified (where possible) with reference to available literature (Gaede, 1927; Rougeot, 1962; Pinhey, 1972; Carcasson, 1976; D'Abrera, 1990) and the entomological reference collections at Forest Department headquarters, Kawanda Agricultural Research Station (Kampala), the National Museums of Kenya (Nairobi), and the private collection of Dr A. McCrae (Oxford, UK). Specimens of doubtful status were retained and examined subsequently by Dr A. McCrae. The geographic coordinates of sampling locations were recorded during the original fieldwork using the Military Grid Reference System (old version). These were converted to a standard UTM format and then to decimal latitude and longitude using GIS based tools. |
Method step description:
- The national survey of Uganda forests collected data in 65 forests. The original field survey results including all data were published in a series of reports by the Forest Department of Uganda (Howard et al. 1996). The location data in the original reports were provided in Military Grid Reference System. These were first converted to standard UTM coordinates, noting that the MGRS was using an old datum (MGRS-AL scheme also called "MGRS old"). UTM coordinates were then converted to decimal degrees using an online conversion spreadsheet (https://giscrack.com/download-excel-template-convert-geographic-coordinates-utm/). The converted locations were then checked against Google Maps imagery to confirm that a satisfactory conversion had been made.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 26b29f2d-025d-4623-8b4d-84437d742648 |
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| https://cloud.gbif.org/africa/resource?r=occurrence-of-moths-in-eastern-and-central-uganda-key-forests |