Herding Baobabs

This project is to monitor and investigate all the Baobabs on the Philip Herd Private Nature Reserve.
Seven staff members from the reserve will participate in the survey. Most of the field work will be done by Neud

Included in that recording will be the circumference, estimated height and width from branches east to west. we will record if it has flowered and carried seed.

There will be about 500 Baobabs measured, 90% are mature enough to flower and seed. But in previous observations, flowers fall off before they turn to seed. We want to record this.

Summary

• Map location of baobabs
• Circumference per baobab - to determine if they decrease size in winter
• which have flowered and seeded.

Procedure:
load iNaturalist app onto smartphone.
under project join the project "herding baobabs"
set options to:
autocomplete names OFF
automatic upload OFF
suggest species OFF

In field.
find baobab
take photo
add project
fill in fields

• height
• trunk bh circumference
• canopy diameter (e-w)

• reproductive state
  take any additional photos of tree
  save

back home
sync to upload photos
add identifications.

Data can be downloaded by curators from the project.

Publicado el 30 de agosto de 2022 a las 09:31 AM por tonyrebelo