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Size of Agricultural Crops in Kenya
Used in Map 5.7 of Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being. Original data are downloadable at www.africover.org.
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Percent of Land under Cultivation in Kenya
Used in Map 5.4 of Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being.Original data are downloadable at www.africover.org.
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Locations of sable antelope sites, Kenya
This data was used in Map 6.4 and Map 6.5 in Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being. Original data and report are downloadable at http://www.unep.org/eafatlas/dbke.htm.
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Average number of crops grown in croplands of central and western Kenya, 1997
World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) and Department of Resource Surveys and Remote Sensing (DRSRS), Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. 2001. GIS Database of Land Use and Land Cover for Kenya's Medium to High Potential Districts. DRSRS interpretation of 5,747 aerial photographs from...
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Locations of mangroves in Kenya (line)
This data was used in Map 6.4 and Map 6.5 in Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being. The full report is available at http://www.geus.dk/program-areas/nature-environment/international/reports/kensea/kensea_rapport.pdf.
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Locations of mangroves in Kenya (polygon)
This data was used in Map 6.4 and Map 6.5 in Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being. The full report is available at http://www.geus.dk/program-areas/nature-environment/international/reports/kensea/kensea_rapport.pdf.
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Number of beds by hotel on the eastern coast of Kenya
Number of beds calculated by ILRI and WRI, based on RoK 2003 and UNEP 1998. This data was used in Map 6.4 and Map 6.5 in Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being.
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Tropical Coral Reefs of the World (500-m resolution grid)
Global map of shallow, tropical coral reefs, gridded at 500-m resolution for use in the Reefs at Risk Revisited project. The coral reef location data were compiled from multiple sources by UNEP-WCMC, the WorldFish Center, and WRI. To standardize these data for the purposes of the Reefs at Risk...
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Dugong Sites and Dolphin Schools on the Eastern Coast of Kenya
This data was used in Map 6.4 and Map 6.5 in Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being. Original report and data available on http://www.unep.org/eafatlas/dbke.htm
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Annual Growth of Biomass and Theoretically Harvestable Biomass Yield outside ...
This data was used in Map 7.6 and Map 7.7 in Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being. Values of zero for both fields pertain to croplands and urban areas, and should be displayed as ""not applicable."" Note: All areas classified as 'natural and semi-natural' in...
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Permanent and Non-Permanent Rivers in Kenya
This data was used in maps featured in Natures Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being. Original data are available at http://mapping.usgs.gov/esic/cdrom/vmap.html.
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Major Airfields in Kenya
This data was used in Map 6.4 and Map 6.5 featured in Natures Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being.
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Wildlife density in Kenya's rangelands: 1994-96
This data was used in Map 1.4, Map 4.10, and Map 5.11 in Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being. Species numbers are aggregated using a ""tropical livestock unit"" (TLU) (which is equivalent to an animal weight of 250 kilograms) to grid cells of 5x5 km and then...
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Livestock density in Kenya's rangelands, 1994-1996
This data was used in Map 1.5 and Map 4.7 in Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being. Species numbers are aggregated using a ""tropical livestock unit"" (TLU) (which is equivalent to an animal weight of 250 kilograms) to grid cells of 5x5 km and then averaged by...
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Coral reefs in Kenya
This data was used in Map 6.4 and Map 6.5 in Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being. The full report is available at http://www.geus.dk/program-areas/nature-environment/international/reports/kensea/kensea_rapport.pdf.
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Floodplains and valley bottoms in Kenya
This data was used in Map 3.14 and Map 3.15 in Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being. Original data are downloadable at www.africover.org.
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Percentage Food Crops in Central and Western Kenya
World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) and Department of Resource Surveys and Remote Sensing (DRSRS), Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. 2001. GIS Database of Land Use and Land Cover for Kenya's Medium to High Potential Districts. DRSRS interpretation of 5,747 aerial photographs from...
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Percent woodlots in sampled cropland in Kenya
This data was used in Map 7.3 in Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being. These data combine detailed crop information from 5,747 aerial photos for a growing season in 1997, each providing a sample point of detailed crop information. These samples were averaged...
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Turtle nesting and breeding sites in Kenya
This data was used in Map 6.4 and Map 6.5 in Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being. The full report is available at http://www.geus.dk/program-areas/nature-environment/international/reports/kensea/kensea_rapport.pdf.
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Tourist Accommodations in Kenya
Approximately placed by ILRI/WRI based on MacMillan Education Ltd. 1993, UNEP/GRID-Nairobi 1998, and RoK 1998