Wednesday, November 05, 2008  More on the Global Mammal
Assesment  Simon Stuart wrote a rebuttal on taxacom and
conservation commons listserve, where I tried to reply. So I
went back to follow all the links he provides and have to
confess, that there are the shape files online available, albeit
without any metadata attached to them and as zip files, and of
course no primary data they just do not deal with. So I
downloaded the elephant shrew data sets and opened it in ArcView
to have a look at the shape files. They are very coarse, similar
to what we did for our taxonomic works where we drove nice
circles. From there I went to the Red List site and looked up
the tiger and some of the elephant shrews. At the bottom of the
page there was a template how this page would have to be cited.
Fair enough.  Now, that I have the famous Mammals of East Africa
by Kingdon, I thought, why not look up what he has to say about
this species. And here it is: The very same map, with all the
collections he checked up marked.  It s