2004 UC Proceedings Abstract
Integrating Chimpanzee Research and Conservation in Gombe Using GIS Track: Ecology and Conservation Author(s): Lilian Pintea, Michael Wilson, Anne Pusey Made famous by Dr. Jane Goodall's groundbreaking discoveries on chimpanzees, Gombe National Park is one of the longest ongoing animal behavior study sites in the world. For more than 30 years data have been collected daily by the Gombe Stream Research Center during all-day observation of focal chimpanzees. The data are digitized and imported into a spatial database using ArcInfo, ArcView and ArcGIS at the Jane Goodall Institute's Center for Primate Studies, University of Minnesota. Currently the database has more than 300,000 points with attributes describing every 15-minute chimpanzee location, party membership, and feeding behavior. Once in GIS, chimpanzee data are integrated with habitat and human land use data from multi-temporal/multi-resolution satellite images and participatory mapping of village lands outside the park. This paper will describe the experiences of using GIS to understand long-term chimpanzee habitat relationships and to support chimpanzee habitat restoration and conservation outside Gombe National Park. Lilian Pintea University of Minnesota Jane Goodall Institute's Center for Primate Studies Ecology 100 1987 Upper Bufford Circle St. Paul , MN 55108 US Phone: 612-676-0732 E-mail: pint0020@umn.edu Michael Wilson Gombe Stream Research Centre PO Box 185 Kigoma , Kigoma +4 TZ Phone: 255-280-28-3409 E-mail: wilso198@tc.umn.edu Anne Pusey University of Minnesota Jane Goodall Institute's Center for Primate Studies 100 Ecology 1987 Upper Buford Circle St. Paul , MN 55108 US Phone: (612) 624-6714 Fax: 612) 624-6777 E-mail: pusey001@tc.umn.edu |
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