Mammal occurrence records (2025-26) in central and southern Western Ghats, India
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Title: Mammal occurrence records (2025-26) in central and southern Western Ghats, India Description: This dataset contains mammal occurrence records (June 2025 - February 2026) from the Western Ghats, collected using a mobile collection application (EpiCollect5). Suggested citation is:Nature Conservation Foundation (2026). Mammal occurrence records (2025-26) in the Valparai Plateau and Anamalai Tiger Reserve, Western Ghats, India. Nature Conservation Foundation, India. Dataset, Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18923778 This includes data from the project, Western Ghats Mammals(https://five.epicollect.net/project/western-ghats-mammals (PRIVATE project), 1st June 2025 - 28th February 2026, n=1943) This dataset follows from a previous upload of records from the Western Ghats Mammals Project (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18910401) Dataset contacts and Project leaders:Name: T. R. Shankar RamanInstitution: Nature Conservation Foundation, IndiaEmail: trsr@ncf-india.orgORCID: 0000-0002-1347-3953 Name: Divya MudappaInstitution: Nature Conservation Foundation, IndiaEmail: divya@ncf-india.orgORCID: 0000-0001-9708-4826 Keywords: tropical rainforests, plantations, Anamalai Hills, Western Ghats, animal distribution, mammals Geographic Coverage:1. Location/Study Area: Multiple locations along the Western Ghats, India; Anamalai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India2. GPS coordinates: All records: 73.80242° - 77.59048° and 10.25200° - 17.93301°Main locations: Sakleshpur region, Nilgiris, Valparai Plateau and Anamalai Tiger Reserve Temporal Coverage:1. Begins: 2025-06-01 (Year, Month, Day)2. Ends: 2026-02-28 (Year, Month, Day) Besides the 00_readMe.txt file containing this information, the dataset includes 77 images (photographs) and 2 comma-delimited text (csv) files and one R-script as explained below: 1. 01_epicollect4zenodo.csveventID - Unique event IDoccurrenceID - Unique occurrence ID for each observationinstitutionID - Institution IDinstitutionCode - Institution CodeeventDate - Date of observation in YYYY-MM-DD formateventTime - Time of observation in hh:mm:ss + 05:30 UTC (for IST zone)decimalLatitude - Latitude in decimal degrees NdecimalLongitude - Longitude in decimal degrees NcoordinateUncertaintyInMeters - Horizontal accuracy of GPS location in metres or estimated accuracyrecordedBy - Name of observerassociatedMedia - If available, filenames of associated photographs (.jpg)verbatimIdentification - Identification common name as recorded on the EpiCollect formscientificName - Scientific name of the species as matched to GBIF backbone 02_namesMatch.csvcommonName - Identification common name as recorded on the EpiCollect formsciName - Scientific name of the species as matched to GBIF backbone# Note: Other category used for other species marked as NA 03_epicollect4gbif_Rscript_for_reference.RR code used for porting the data to Darwin Core format for upload to GBIF +77 image files (.jpg extension)
