Staff and collaborators of GBIF nodes in Mauritania, Benin, Uganda, Kenya and South Africa were trained in ecological niche modelling and generating data papers in a workshop organized by the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) in Johannesburg from 3 to 6 November 2015.
Participants were required to bring a dataset from their country to use in practical exercises, and learned to prepare datasets for analyses, use GIS and MaxENT software, and to interpret and improve models.
The workshop is part of a project receiving support through the GBIF capacity enhancement support programme for 2015.
Course materials will be made available through the EWT e-learning platform shortly.