Checklist derived from animal species published on GBIF through BID project

Eben-Ezer APELETE1, Sunday Berlioz KAKPO2, Tania S. GBENOU1, Kourouma KOURA3, Gorgias AÏKPON4, Justine KOTIN4, Jean Cossi GANGLO5

1 Laboratory of Forest Sciences (University of Abomey-Calavi), Benin, Atlantic, 00229, Abomey-Calavi, Benin; 2 Laboratory of Forest Sciences (University of Abomey-Calavi), Benin, Atlantic, Abomey-Calavi, Benin; 3 Laboratory of Forest Sciences (University of Abomey-Calavi), Benin, Atlantic, 00229, Abomey-calavi, Benin; 4 Laboratory of Forest Sciences (University of Abomey-Calavi), Benin, Atlantic, 00229, Abomey-Calavi, Benin; 5 Laboratory of Forest Sciences (University of Abomey-Calavi), Benin, Atlantic, 00229, Abomey-Calavi, Benin

Corresponding author(s): Eben-Ezer APELETE (apeleteebenezer@gmail.com)Sunday Berlioz KAKPO (kakposunday@yahoo.fr)Tania S. GBENOU (taniagbenou@gmail.com)Kourouma KOURA (kourakourouma@gmail.com)Gorgias AÏKPON (gorgiasaikpon@gmail.com)Justine KOTIN (justinekotin@gmail.com)Jean Cossi GANGLO (ganglocj@gmail.com)

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Resource Citation

APELETE E, KAKPO S B, GBENOU T S, KOURA K, AÏKPON G, KOTIN J, GANGLO J C (2023): Checklist derived from animal species published on GBIF through BID project. v1.5. Laboratory of Forest Sciences (University of Abomey-Calavi). Dataset/Checklist. https://ipt.gbifbenin.org/resource?r=checklistanimal&v=1.5

Abstract

This checklist was achieved from the animal occurrence data published on GBIF through BID projet

Keywords: Checklist; Animalia; BID project, Derivedfromoccurrence

Project details

Project title: Data use to inform decisions on biodiversity conservation and public health in Benin
Personnel: Jean Cossi GANGLO
Funding: The funding of this project is generously provided by European Union in the framework of Biodiversity Information for Development program managed by GBIF Secretariat
Study area descriptions/descriptor: The data digitized and published in the framework of this project are gathered throughout the whole country with respect to the data needs to inform decisions in the three partner institutions
Design description: The design is detailed according to the objectives of the project
The initial planning phase will be achieved in the framework of workshops during which the consortium members and their collaborators, students, and supervisors of theses of the master program will be invited. The end-users from DGEFC, CENAGREF, and Hôpital Menontin will present their needs of information and the decisions they wish to support.
The needs of information will be reformulated into key questions to be answered with respect to the decisions to be supported so as to identify the possible information resources to be taken into account. They can be databases like GBIF, Vertnet, species links etc. Any other relevant sources of information (data holders, data users, resource persons etc.) will also be considered. This will result in a plan of data mobilization, data publication, and data uses to support decisions. This plan will be consolidated through partnership agreements between parties.
During data mobilization phase, taking into account the key questions to be answered, research topics will be identified and attributed to the students of the master program and other data users. Data will then be downloaded from GBIF, Vertenet, species links etc. and data gap analysis will be performed so as to find out the gaps of occurrences to be filled either from complementary field surveys, data holders, and literature reviews etc. Data collected to fill data gaps will be formatted, georeferenced, cleaned up, and published on GBIF site.
The evaluation process will be carried out in two phases: i) during the information development phase, under the umbrella of their supervisors and the advisor of the program, students will process data to provide relevant answers to the key questions in order to guide the intended decision making of the partners; ii) in an evaluation phase, the results obtained (answers to the key questions) will be scrutinized with respect to their adequacy to support the intended decisions of end-users and, whenever necessary, data mobilization and data analysis refinements will be reconsidered to provide more relevant answers to the key questions to support decisions.

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.gbifbenin.org/resource?r=checklistanimal

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: The following class have been identified: Amphibia, Aves, Crocodylia, Mammalia, Squamata, Testudines
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Animalia

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Data was collected in Benin and published on GBIF website
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Methods

Method step description: 1- Species determination
2- Correction of possible taxonomic errors
Study extent description: Data have been collected in Benin
Sampling description: Checklist derived from animal species published on GBIF through BID projet

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Checklist derived from animal species published on GBIF through BID project
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.gbifbenin.org/archive.do?r=checklistanimal
Publication date of data: 2023-05-15
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2023-03-20
Hierarchy level: Dataset