Bird Species Occurrence in Ramsar Site of Kilombero Valley Floodplains of Tanzania.

Pantaleo Munishi; Paulo Lyimo; Adili Bugingo

doi:10.15468/z7rqml

Bird Species Occurrence in Ramsar Site of Kilombero Valley Floodplains of Tanzania.

Citation

Munishi P, Lyimo P, Bugingo A, Gideon H (2018). Bird Species Occurrence in Ramsar Site of Kilombero Valley Floodplains of Tanzania.. Sokoine University of Agriculture, Department of Ecosystems and Conservation. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/z7rqml accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-11.

Description

Wetlands provide important habitats to many bird species but are also under threat from human-caused degradation. The Kilombero Valley Floodplain Ramsar site in Tanzania has been subject to an increasing level of disturbance, but harbors the endemic Kilombero Weaver, Kilombero Cisticola and White-tailed Cisticola, as well as several other species of local, national and global importance.

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

The study was conducted in the Kilombero Valley Floodplain Wetland in Morogoro region, southern-central Tanzania. Situated between 8˚40'0"S and 36˚10'0"E and covering an area of 7967 km2, Kilombero wetland is a Ramsar site and an Important Bird Area (IBA) with high biodiversity. Kilombero valley is included in the Greater Selous Ecosystem, a World Heritage Site. The area experiences a tropical sub-humid climate and has a bimodal rainfall pattern with short rains between December and February and long rains between March and May. The average annual rainfall is 1200 - 1400 mm whereas the mean annual temperature is 26˚C. Kilombero wetland holds above 300 unique and diverse bird species on regular basis and could hold up to 20,000 waterbirds during wet season. There are grasslands, papyrus and woodland vegetations with a total of about 350 plant species in the wetland system.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Pantaleo Munishi
originator
position: Professor
Sokoine University of Agriculture
3010
Morogoro
TZ
email: pmunishi2001@yahoo.com
homepage: http://www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz/forestrybiology/index.php
userId: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=http://www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz/forestrybiology/index.php/pantaleo-k-t-munishi#

Paulo Lyimo
originator
position: Assistant Lecturer
Sokoine University of Agriculture
3010
Morogoro
TZ
email: paulolyimo@gmail.com
homepage: http://www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz/forestrybiology/index.php
userId: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=http://www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz/forestrybiology/index.php/paulo-john-lyimo

Adili Bugingo
originator
position: Research Assistant
Sokoine University of Agriculture
3010
Morogoro
TZ
homepage: http://www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz/forestrybiology/index.php
userId: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BID-AF2017-0258-SMA

Pantaleo Munishi
metadata author
position: Professor
Sokoine University of Agriculture
3010
Morogoro
TZ
email: pmunishi2001@yahoo.com
homepage: http://www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz/forestrybiology/index.php
userId: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=http://www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz/forestrybiology/index.php/pantaleo-k-t-munishi#

Paulo Lyimo
metadata author
position: Assistant Lecturer
Sokoine University of Agriculture
3010
Morogoro
TZ
email: paulolyimo@gmail.com
homepage: http://www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz/forestrybiology/index.php
userId: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=http://www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz/forestrybiology/index.php/paulo-john-lyimo

Adili Bugingo
metadata author
position: Research Assistant
Sokoine University of Agriculture
3010
Morogoro
TZ
homepage: http://www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz/forestrybiology/index.php
userId: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BID-AF2017-0258-SMA

Hulda Gideon
metadata author
position: Node Manager
Tanzania Biodiversity Information Facility (TANBIF)
3010
email: hgideon@costech.or.tz
homepage: http://www.costech.or.tz/
userId: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BID-AF2017-0258-SMA

Paulo Lyimo
user
email: paulolyimo@gmail.com

Pantaleo Munishi
administrative point of contact
position: Professor
Sokoine University of Agriculture
3010
Morogoro
TZ
email: pmunishi2001@yahoo.com
homepage: http://www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz/forestrybiology/index.php
userId: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=http://www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz/forestrybiology/index.php/pantaleo-k-t-munishi#

Paulo Lyimo
administrative point of contact
position: Assistant Lecturer
Sokoine University of Agriculture
3010
Morogoro
TZ
Telephone: +255754216031
email: paulolyimo@gmail.com
homepage: http://www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz/forestrybiology/index.php
userId: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=http://www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz/forestrybiology/index.php/paulo-john-lyimo