Sharing vertebrate occurrence data from camera traps in Asia

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 10,300 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

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Luskin M, Thapa A, Mendes C (2023). Sharing vertebrate occurrence data from camera traps in Asia. Version 1.9. Small Mammals Conservation and Research Foundation. Occurrence dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=bifa5_006&v=1.9

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Small Mammals Conservation and Research Foundation. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 84b5b072-2832-4c72-ad17-eb90bcb0c5ac.  Small Mammals Conservation and Research Foundation publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development.

Keywords

Camera trapping; Occurrence; Mammal; South-east Asia;

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam

Taxonomic Coverage

This data consists of 468 species of three taxonomic classes including mammals, aves, and reptiles from Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

Camera traps have become a ubiquitous tool in ecology and conservation. There were many studies based on camera trapping in the Asian countries which required a common data management pool that represents Asia’s richest reservoirs of biodiversity and efforts for conservation. Occurrence records for cryptic Southeast Asian rainforest species are severely underrepresented in GBIF and any other similar resource. This project is working to enlarge occurrence records from >400 published camera trapping studies from across Asia into GBIF. A key partner is the Ecological Cascades Lab at the University of Queensland (‘ECL’) which has piloted this approach for studies published prior to 2015 in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore and has generated 273,791 independent observations of 211 vertebrate species at 131 sites. There is an exponential increase in camera trap data, and the project is adding camera trap data from Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam and added data from 2015 to 2022. This project will contribute in enriching species data of Asians that will contribute to future research and monitoring of the globally threatened species in the region.

The personnel involved in the project:

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