Description
This dataset includes occurrence data of mammals on the Valparai Plateau and Anamalai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India, collected between 2015 and 2018. Data were recorded on a mobile phone application as direct sightings or from indirect signs in the field. Photographs were taken whenever possible.
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 3,742 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:
Nature Conservation Foundation (2022): Mammal occurrence in Valparai Plateau and Anamalai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India (2015-18). v1.0. Nature Conservation Foundation. Dataset/Occurrence. https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=mammals-anamalais-2015-18-ncfindia&v=1.0
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Nature Conservation Foundation. 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: 4b286126-5658-44ac-b958-cc8fc0f511e1. Nature Conservation Foundation publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Occurrence; Observation; Geographical distribution
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| Mammal occurrence records (2015-18) in the Valparai Plateau and Anamalai Tiger Reserve, Western Ghats, India | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7008314 UTF-8 CSV |
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Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Senior Scientist
- 1311, 12th A Main,Vijayanagar 1st Stage
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1347-3953
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Senior Scientist
- 1311, 12th A Main,Vijayanagar 1st Stage
Geographic Coverage
Valparai Plateau and Anamalai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India. (A few observations were incidentally recorded outside this geographical area.) Valparai Plateau (10°15'- 10°22'N, 76°52' - 76°59'E); Anamalai Tiger Reserve (10°12' - 10°35'N, 76°49' - 77°24'E)
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [10.24, 76.6], North East [10.56, 77.3] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The dataset comprises mostly mammals (Class: Mammalia). However, a few incidental observations of reptilians are also included.
| Phylum | Chordata (Vertebrates) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2015-01-01 / 2018-10-01 |
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Project Data
Our research and restoration programme focuses on the region’s unique, biologically diverse tropical rainforests in the Western Ghats, with a specific focus on the Anamalai Hills.
| Title | Tropical Rainforest Research and Ecological Restoration in the Anamalai Hills, Western Ghats, India |
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| Identifier | ncf-arrp |
| Funding | Various |
| Study Area Description | The Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR), Tamil Nadu, India (core zone: 958 km², 10.2160N, 76.8160E – 10.5660N, 77.4160E) is a protected area in the Western Ghats. The adjoining Valparai Plateau (220 km², 10.250N, 76.8660E – 10.3660N, 76.9830E) in the Anamalai Hills is a landscape dominated by tea and coffee plantations with about 45 embedded rainforest fragments ranging in area from 1 ha to over 300 ha. |
| Design Description | The occurrence data were gathered opportunistically by members of the research team (observers) using a form on a mobile phone application during routine fieldwork and travel in the study area. |
The personnel involved in the project:
Sampling Methods
Opportunistic observations recorded on a form on the mobile phone application of mammals during regular field work and travel in the study area.
| Study Extent | Chiefly the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR), Tamil Nadu, India (core zone: 958 km², 10.2160N, 76.8160E – 10.5660N, 77.4160E) and the adjoining Valparai Plateau (220 km², 10.250N, 76.8660E – 10.3660N, 76.9830E) in the Anamalai Hills. |
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| Quality Control | Field identification was based on direct sightings, photographs or signs, and dataset was reviewed by colleagues. Taxa that could not be identified to species were identified to Genus or Family. |
Method step description:
- The raw and curated datasets, along with photographs, were first uploaded to Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7008314). Using R code, the dataset was transformed into Darwin Core format for upload to GBIF. Individual counts were extracted from notes and manually entered in a separate column before upload.
- For version 1.1 image URLs (associatedMedia) and some locations and locality details corrected as described in version details.
Bibliographic Citations
- Nature Conservation Foundation. (2022). Mammal occurrence records (2015-18) in the Valparai Plateau and Anamalai Tiger Reserve, Western Ghats, India [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7008315
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 4b286126-5658-44ac-b958-cc8fc0f511e1 |
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| https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=mammals-anamalais-2015-18-ncfindia |