Conservation Planning for Rodrigues Island, Mauritius

Mar 24, 2017
Uploaded by Dean Walton
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A map set of Rodrigues Island, Mauritius relating to geomorphological features and conservation targets including rare species point locations and species habitat. It is a test example of citizen science based conservation.
    
This package contains layers regarding conservation targets on Rodrigues Island, Mauritius including native habitat, point locations for Rodrigues Warbler, habitat for Rodrigues fruit bat and fody. The set also contains layers for geology, rivers, caves, peaks, and 100 meter contour lines. The set contains established conservation boundaries and national park boundaries. Finally, there is a proposed set of terrestrial conservation boundaries proposed by the author, Dean Walton / University of Oregon, based on his experience creating conservation boundaries with the Nature Conservancy and the Virginia and West Virginia Natural Heritage Programs.
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Dean Walton - University of Oregon
    based on aerial photograph interpretation and papers by:
    Cheke, Land of the Lost Dodo, 2008
    Hume, Historical Biology 27, 2005
    Lorence, Bot J Linn Soc 72, 1976
    Pasnin, thesis, Univ. Capetown, 2011
    Powell, Orxy 37, 2003
    Showler et al Bird Con Int 12, 2002
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Walton, DP.  (2017) An Open Source Conservation Analysis & Plan for Rodrigues Island, Mauritius. Data Basin
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Dean Walton / University of Oregon (dpwalton@uoregon.edu)
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Creative Commons LicenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.
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About the Uploader

Dean Walton
with University of Oregon

Information Specialist and ex-field ecologist. I deal with GIS, botany, ecology, and natural disaster related issues as well working with autonomously navigating data collection systems.