Forestry Management Unit Ngombé
Basic information
Sample name: Forestry Management Unit Ngombé
Reference: S. Marrocoli, M. R. Nielsen, D. Morgan, T. van Loon, L. Kulik, and H. Kühl. 2019. Using wildlife indicators to facilitate wildlife monitoring in hunter-self monitoring schemes. Ecological Indicators 105:254-263 [ER 3313]
Geography
Country: Republic of the Congo
Coordinate: 1° 7' 28" N, 16° 0' 19" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "in the Northern Republic of Congo... in 8 villages... spread across the entire concession"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Protection: unprotected
Substrate: ground surface
Disturbance: hunting
Habitat comments: a forest concession: "around 5000 people live within the FMU"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates,other large mammals
Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras
Sample size: 1483 captures or sightings
Years: 2015 - 2017
Seasons: dry,wet or monsoon
Net or trap nights: 7013
Camera type: digital
Cameras paired: no
Sampling comments: the study was "Between June 2015 and August 2017... We surveyed 21 zones over seven village territories with camera traps... We used Bushnell camera traps (models 119435, 119476, and 119678)... In each zone, we placed up to 20 cameras for a minimum period of 14 days" (minimum 5880 days)
Table 1 reports "trap days" but these are certainly trap hours, so the total of 168,309 hours has been converted to 7013 days
Table 1 reports "trap days" but these are certainly trap hours, so the total of 168,309 hours has been converted to 7013 days
Metadata
Sample number: 3688
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2020-10-21 19:50:40
Modified: 2021-03-21 06:52:08
Abundance distribution
24 species
3 singletons
total count 1483
geometric series index: 31.8
Fisher's α: 4.067
geometric series k: 0.7708
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8588
Shannon's H: 2.2974
Good's u: 0.9980
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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Register
Aonyx capensis congicus | 5 | 14 kg invertivore-carnivore |
Atilax paludinosus | 68 | 2.8 kg invertivore-carnivore |
Caracal aurata | 3 | 2.5 kg carnivore |
Genetta sp. | 23 | |
Nandinia binotata | 1 | 2.7 kg frugivore-invertivore |
Panthera pardus | 2 | 33 kg carnivore |
Manis spp. | 12 | |
Smutsia gigantea | 1 | |
Cercopithecus neglectus | 2 | 5.0 kg frugivore |
Cercopithecus pogonias | 2 | 3.7 kg frugivore-insectivore |
Galago sp. | 3 | |
Gorilla gorilla gorilla | 41 | 162 kg frugivore-folivore |
Pan troglodytes troglodytes | 76 | 36 kg frugivore-folivore |
Perodicticus potto | 1 | 993 g |
Atherurus africanus | 134 | 3.2 kg frugivore |
Cricetomys emini | 188 | 1.1 kg |
Funisciurus spp. | 62 | |
Muridae indet. | 39 | |
"Mouse spp." | ||
Cephalophus spp. | 266 | |
"Red duiker spp." | ||
Cephalophus silvicultor | 77 | 27 kg frugivore-folivore |
Hyemoschus aquaticus | 5 | 11 kg frugivore-folivore |
Philantomba monticola | 398 | 4.3 kg frugivore-folivore |
Potamochoerus porcus | 60 | 66 kg |
Tragelaphus spekii | 14 | 54 kg browser-grazer |
"Tragelaphus spekei" |