Site: Mpala
Country: Kenya
Site PI: Dr. Paul Mutuku Musili, David Kenfack
Data Type:
Availabilty: Approve
About Data: The National Museums of Kenya (MNK), the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWF), and the Mpala Wildlife Foundation (MWF), in partnership with the Forest Global Earth Observatory of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute seek to promote long-term scientific research towards the conservation of biological diversity in Kenya. These institutions oversee and support the continued monitoring of a 120-ha plot located at the Mpala Ranch, on the Laikipia Plateau, north central Kenya.
These institutions agree to make the data of the 120-ha Mpala plot available to researchers and students that can utilize these data to address a wide range of scientific and management questions. However, maintaining the Mpala plot requires enormous field effort and an ongoing financial commitment by several parties. We therefore require that the Principal Investigators of the Mpala plot and others directly involved in species identification and data management be considered as collaborators on any project making use of the data and be included as co-authors on any articles or presentations, unless they explicitly state otherwise.