Mist netting, ringing and morphometric data of birds on Mt. Kilimanjaro

<p>Mist netting, ringing and morphometric data of birds for all plots on the land use gradient (flm: lower mountain forest, hom: Chagga home garden, cof: coffee plantation, gra: grasslands, sun: coffee plantation without tree cover).</p> <p>Acronyms: cap : capture or recapture;&nbsp;kd: Kipp's distance;&nbsp;bp: brood patch</p> <p>The KiLi project (2010-2018) is a German Science Foundation (DFG) funded research unit (DFG research unit FOR1246) that focuses on biodiversity and ecosystem processes along altitudinal and disturbance gradients on Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanzania, Africa), capitalizing on its world-wide unique range of climatic and vegetation zones. The research unit comprises 2 central projects and 7 subprojects from various disciplines. On a total of 60 study sites in both natural and human-disturbed ecosystems biodiversity (e.g. plants, soil arthropods, ants, bees, frogs, lizards, bats, birds), related ecosystem processes (decomposition, seed dispersal, pollination, herbivory, predation), and biogeochemical processes and properties of ecosystems (climate, soil properties and nutrient status, regulation of water and carbon fluxes, trace gas emissions, primary productivity, functional diversity) are analyzed.</p>