Weather data
A large number of automatic weather stations has been implemented in the frame of the BIOTA AFRICA project by the Namibian National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) and the Group "Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology" (BEE) of the University of Hamburg. The website offers hourly updates of data and graphs of a large number of weather parameters.


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BIOTA West Africa BIOTA West Africa - Workpackage - CT1-T2-WP1


Overview

 Core Topic (CT)

The contemporary status of biodiversity in West Africa and concepts for its sustainable conservation

 Topic (T)

Regional to Continental Scale

 Title

Analysis of biodiversity patterns

 Project leader(s)

Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Barthlott & J. Henning Sommer
Prof. Dr. Georg Zizka, Dr. Stefan Dressler & Marco Schmidt
Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Kalko & Jakob Fahr
Prof. Dr. Mark-Oliver Rödel & Johannes Penner
Dr. Michael Schmidt & Dr. Tobias Landmann
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Runge & Konstantin König
Prof. Dr. Paul L.G. Vlek & Dr. Ulrike Falk

 Project description

In this workpackage, the comprehensive datasets on bat, amphibian, and plant distributions developed during the first phases of BIOTA are combined (and complemented) with spatial data on environmental parameters. Applying ecological niche models, habitat requirements of focal taxa are analysed at different spatial resolutions, incorporating the relation between range size, species occurrences, and characteristics of the environment. Our aim is to understand the driving force behind species richness within and among different taxonomic groups at different spatial scales, thus providing the necessary baseline data for the following workpackages (CT1-T2-WP2 – WP4).