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Category: Data and statistics

Archive/Data and statistics/MammalMAP/News

Roads are causing severe threats to apex predators across the globe

Posted on 01/03/2022 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

Roads are the most widespread form of ecological health and integrity loss. Currently, roads are causing severe conservation threats to apex predators globally,...

Archive/Birds/Data and statistics/News

African Oystercatchers on Robben Island

Posted on 11/11/2021 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

Hot off the press! A new paper, published in Wader Study and authored by Itxaso Quintana, Rio Button and Prof Les Underhill, describes a single-year study of th...

Chlorolestes/Data and statistics/Distributions/Odonata/OdonataMAP/Synlestidae

Elegant Malachite (Chlorolestes elegans)

Posted on 27/02/2020 by Dragonfly Atlas: Megan Loftie-Eaton, Ryan Tippett, Rene Navarro & Les Underhill

View the above photo record (by Desire Darling) in OdonataMAP here. Find the Elegant Malachite in the FBIS database (Freshwater Biodiversity Information System)...

Data and statistics/Distributions/Libellulidae/Odonata/OdonataMAP/Trithemis

Orange-winged Dropwing (Trithemis kirbyi)

Posted on 26/02/2020 by Dragonfly Atlas: Megan Loftie-Eaton, Ryan Tippett, Rene Navarro & Les Underhill

The photo above (by Riëtte Griesel) can be viewed in OdonataMAP here. Find this species in the FBIS database (Freshwater Biodiversity Information System) here. ...

Archive/Citizen Science/Data and statistics/Distributions/Libellulidae/Odonata/OdonataMAP/Urothemis

Blue Basker (Urothemis edwardsii)

Posted on 25/02/2020 by Dragonfly Atlas: Megan Loftie-Eaton, Ryan Tippett, Rene Navarro & Les Underhill

View the above photo record (by Christian Fry) in OdonataMAP here. Find the Blue Basker in the FBIS database (Freshwater Biodiversity Information System) here. ...

Biodiversity/Citizen Science/Citizen scientist profile/Data and statistics/LepiMAP/MammalMAP/News/OdonataMAP

Swaziland Superwoman!…BDI interviews conservation scientist Kate Braun

Posted on 28/08/2019 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

I was employed as Ecologist/Research Officer by the Swaziland National Trust Commission (now Eswatini National Trust Commission), the parastatal organisation re...

Biodiversity/Bird ringing/Citizen Science/Data and statistics/News

Chicks of the Wetlands – White-Winged Flufftails

Posted on 26/08/2019 by Willem van der Merwe

What you see here is something very few people have ever seen in the wild.  I haven’t seen any myself, yet.  All I’ve seen is a sad little stuffed specimen in t...

Biodiversity/Citizen Science/Citizen scientist profile/Data and statistics/LepiMAP/News/Virtual Museum

Biodiversity Superhero… BDI interviews citizen scientist Owolabi Bibitayo Ayobami

Posted on 16/08/2019 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

Owolabi Bibitayo Ayobami is a lecturer at the Department of Wildlife and Ecotourism Management at Osun State University in Osogbo, Nigeria. He is also busy with...

Archive/BirdPix/Data and statistics

Exploring data: the median and the mean, and everything in between

Posted on 26/06/2019 by Les Underhill

Here is the assignment for this blog. “Write a report on the progress being made in the Western Cape by the BirdPix section of the Virtual Museum.” ...

Data and statistics

Exploring data: The difference between data and an anecdote

Posted on 25/06/2019 by Les Underhill

  If you only have one data point, then you have an “anecdote”. Like the photo below:   The information we have is that of a single Chacma...

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