Jürgens, Norbert; Schmiedel, Ute; Haarmeyer, Daniela H; Dengler, Jürgen; Finckh, Manfred; Goetze, Dethardt; Gröngröft, Alexander; Hahn, Karen; Koulibaly, Annick; Luther-Mosebach, Jona; Muche, Gerhard; Oldeland, Jens; Petersen, Andreas; Porembski, Stefan; Rutherford, Michael C; Schmidt, Marco; Sinsin, Brice; Strohbach, Ben J; Thiombiano, Adjima; Wittig, Rüdiger; Zizka, Georg (2012): Table 2 Overview of the established BIOTA Observatories in Africa & Appendix [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.826366, Supplement to: Jürgens, N et al. (2012): The BIOTA Biodiversity Observatories in Africa - a standardized framework for large-scale environmental monitoring. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 184(2), 655-678, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-011-1993-y
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Abstract:
The international, interdisciplinary biodiversity research project BIOTA AFRICA initiated a standardized biodiversity monitoring network along climatic gradients across the African continent. Due to an identified lack of adequate monitoring designs, BIOTA AFRICA developed and implemented the standardized BIOTA Biodiversity Observatories, that meet the following criteria (a) enable long-term monitoring of biodiversity, potential driving factors, and relevant indicators with adequate spatial and temporal resolution, (b) facilitate comparability of data generated within different ecosystems, (c) allow integration of many disciplines, (d) allow spatial up-scaling, and (e) be applicable within a network approach. A BIOTA Observatory encompasses an area of 1 km2 and is subdivided into 100 1-ha plots. For meeting the needs of sampling of different organism groups, the hectare plot is again subdivided into standardized subplots, whose sizes follow a geometric series. To allow for different sampling intensities but at the same time to characterize the whole square kilometer, the number of hectare plots to be sampled depends on the requirements of the respective discipline. A hierarchical ranking of the hectare plots ensures that all disciplines monitor as many hectare plots jointly as possible. The BIOTA Observatory design assures repeated, multidisciplinary standardized inventories of biodiversity and its environmental drivers, including options for spatial up- and downscaling and different sampling intensities. BIOTA Observatories have been installed along climatic and landscape gradients in Morocco, West Africa, and southern Africa. In regions with varying land use, several BIOTA Observatories are situated close to each other to analyze management effects.
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Coverage:
Median Latitude: -16.198254 * Median Longitude: 13.848336 * South-bound Latitude: -34.260200 * West-bound Longitude: -6.325850 * North-bound Latitude: 33.414160 * East-bound Longitude: 20.614020
Minimum ELEVATION: 35 m a.s.l. * Maximum ELEVATION: 1869 m a.s.l.
Comment:
Latitude/longitude are WGS84; north-west corner of BIOTA Observatory
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# | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
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1 | Sample code/label | Sample label | Jürgens, Norbert | Observatory No. | ||
2 | LATITUDE | Latitude | Geocode | |||
3 | LONGITUDE | Longitude | Geocode | |||
4 | ELEVATION | Elevation | m a.s.l. | Geocode | ||
5 | Project | Project | Jürgens, Norbert | Subproject/transect | ||
6 | Name | Name | Jürgens, Norbert | of observatory | ||
7 | Country | Country | Jürgens, Norbert | |||
8 | Unit | Unit | Jürgens, Norbert | Primary administration | ||
9 | Unit | Unit | Jürgens, Norbert | Secondary administration | ||
10 | Area/locality | Area | Jürgens, Norbert | |||
11 | Name | Name | Jürgens, Norbert | of farm with number | ||
12 | Temperature, annual mean | MAT | °C | Jürgens, Norbert | modelled | for 1950-2000; WorldClim Bioclim dataset BIO1; Hijmans et al. (2005) doi:10.1002/joc.1276 |
13 | Precipitation, annual mean | MAP | mm | Jürgens, Norbert | modelled | for 1950-2000; WorldClim Bioclim dataset BIO1; Hijmans et al. (2005) doi:10.1002/joc.1276 |
14 | Biome | Biome | Jürgens, Norbert | Classification within BIOTA AFRICA | ||
15 | Ecotype | Ecotype | Jürgens, Norbert | WWF ecoregion, Source: Olson, D.M., Dinerstein, E., Wikramanayake, E.D., Burgess, N.D., Powell, G.V.N., Underwood, E.C., D'Amico, J.A., Itoua, I., Strand, H.E., Morrison, J.C., Loucks, C.J., Allnutt, T.F., Ricketts, T.H., Kura, Y., Lamoreux, J.F., Wettengel, W.W., Hedao, P., Kassem, K.R., 2001. Terrestrial ecoregions of the World: a new map of life on Earth. BioScience 51, 933-938 | ||
16 | Tenure | Tenure | Jürgens, Norbert | |||
17 | Land use | Land use | Jürgens, Norbert | Landuse intensity classe (none = no grazing or other land use; low = e.g. low-intensity grazing by game in a nature reserve; medium = sustainable land use; high = degrading land use) | ||
18 | Land use | Land use | Jürgens, Norbert | Type and history | ||
19 | Soil composition | Soil comp | Jürgens, Norbert | |||
20 | Sampling | Sampling | Jürgens, Norbert | Deviation from standard | ||
21 | Years | Years | Jürgens, Norbert | With vascular plant data | ||
22 | - | - | Jürgens, Norbert | 2001 | ||
23 | - | - | Jürgens, Norbert | 2002 | ||
24 | - | - | Jürgens, Norbert | 2003 | ||
25 | - | - | Jürgens, Norbert | 2004 | ||
26 | - | - | Jürgens, Norbert | 2005 | ||
27 | - | - | Jürgens, Norbert | 2006 | ||
28 | - | - | Jürgens, Norbert | 2007 | ||
29 | - | - | Jürgens, Norbert | 2008 | ||
30 | - | - | Jürgens, Norbert | 2009 | ||
31 | - | - | Jürgens, Norbert | 2010 | ||
32 | Sampling | Sampling | Jürgens, Norbert | Deviation from standard vascular plant smpl. |
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