Landscape Ecology Analysis of a selected country BDC332 ESS 333 Research Paper BDC332 ESS333 Assignment Landscape Ecology Analysis of a selected country Working in pairs

Getting Data/Learning to use Diva http://diva-gis.org/ (Software –to Install) Documentation Ensure you have the Diva Manual http://diva-gis.org/docs/DIVA-GIS_manual_7.pdf Ensure you have done the exercises Tutorial Download the tutorial (pdf) and the accompanying data. Some help with climate data, niche modeling, and clm files. By Julian Ramirez and Aaron Bueno-Cabrera. Exercises Diversity of wild potatoes - handout - data Modeling the distribution of wild peanuts (Arachis spp.) - handout – data Obtained all data for your country and have examined it in DIVA (Next Slide)

Country Data Ensure for your country You have downloaded all of the data as shown here Unzip Files Use Diva to view Gazetteer will require that you “make point data from the DBF file Download from Planet website the Countries.zip – a shape file Admin, Water, Roads, Railroads are vector data Elevation, Land cover, Population are Raster (Grid) layers Gazetteer DBF text file (make points)

Climate Data Download Use 2.5 minute Current & Future

Make an account at GBIF portal to get species data

Make an account at the IUCN portal to get maps of species

Get Protected areas for your Country from Protected Planet website

Ecoregions http://maps.tnc.org/gis_data.html