4.36 OVERALL HERBIVORE DIVERSITY

Data ID

Description:

Diversity of 8 species of herbivores

Chapter:

4 Living Resources

File name:

herbivore diversity

File type:

Arcview shapefile

Geographical area:

Namibia

Keywords:

herbivore

diversity

Notes on data, analysis and

Derived from Ministry of Environment and Tourism aerial census data (1998 and 2000) and Ministry of Environment

compilation:

and Tourism farm census data (1998), provided by Colin Craig and Holger Kolberg of DSSS. This overall diversity map

indicates the number of large herbivores, out of the 8 species shown in the single-species maps (4.38 - 4.45), occurring

across the country. It was derived by overlaying the single-species maps and summing the number of species occurring.

Data quality and organisation

Positional Accuracy:

Very generalised

Vector/Raster:

Vector

Spatial reference

Projection:

Geographic

Fields

Field name

Field description

NO_SPECIES

Estimated number of species (out of 8: springbok, kudu, mountain

zebra, burchell's zebra, hartebeest, elephant, gemsbok, giraffe) per

Source/Distribution

Data Source:

DSSS at Ministry of Environment and Tourism.

Distribution notes:

Unrestricted