4.18 TERMITE DIVERSITY

Data ID

Description:

Diversity of termites in Namibia, by genera

Chapter:

4 Living Resources

File name:

Termite diversity

File type:

ArcView shapefile

Geographical area:

Namibia

Keywords:

termite

diversity

Notes on data, analysis and

Information on termites was provided by Juliane Ziedler based on her MSc. work ( Ziedler, J. 1997. Distribution of

compilation:

termites (Isoptera) throughout Namibia - Environmental connections. Research report for MSc degree. Johannesburg:

University of the Witwatersrand). For use of these data we acknowledge the Biosystematics Division, Plant Protection

Research Institute of the Agricultural Research Council of South Africa.

A grid file (at 5km cell size) was created from point data (i.e.centroids of QDS) using a kriging interpolator. The

shapefile was created from the grid file once suitable class intervals were identified.

Data quality and organisation

Positional Accuracy:

low; Very generalised

Vector/Raster:

Vector

Spatial reference

Projection:

Geographic

Fields

Field name

Field description

Rank	Rank of 1 to 4 representing low to high diversity

No genera

Number of genera, from 1 - 6 to 13 - 19

Source/Distribution

Data Source:

Biosystematics Division, Plant Protection Research Institute of the Agricultural Research Council of South Africa

Online/Offline Address:

Biosystematics Division, Plant Protection Research Institute, Biosystematics Division, Agricultural Research Council,

Private Bag X134, Pretoria 0001, South Africa

Distribution notes:

Unrestricted