1. 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

2. Getting Data/Learning to use Diva
(Software –to Install)
Documentation
Ensure you have the Diva Manual
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)

3. 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)

4. Climate Data
Download
Use 2.5 minute Current & Future

5. Make an account at GBIF portal to get species data

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

7. Get Protected areas for your Country from Protected Planet website

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