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

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.
Register
Aonyx capensis congicus514 kg invertivore-carnivore
Atilax paludinosus682.8 kg invertivore-carnivore
Caracal aurata32.5 kg carnivore
Genetta sp.23
Nandinia binotata12.7 kg frugivore-invertivore
Panthera pardus233 kg carnivore
Manis spp.12
Smutsia gigantea1
Cercopithecus neglectus25.0 kg frugivore
Cercopithecus pogonias23.7 kg frugivore-insectivore
Galago sp.3
Gorilla gorilla gorilla41162 kg frugivore-folivore
Pan troglodytes troglodytes7636 kg frugivore-folivore
Perodicticus potto1993 g
Atherurus africanus1343.2 kg frugivore
Cricetomys emini1881.1 kg
Funisciurus spp.62
Muridae indet.39
"Mouse spp."
Cephalophus spp.266
"Red duiker spp."
Cephalophus silvicultor7727 kg frugivore-folivore
Hyemoschus aquaticus511 kg frugivore-folivore
Philantomba monticola3984.3 kg frugivore-folivore
Potamochoerus porcus6066 kg
Tragelaphus spekii1454 kg browser-grazer
"Tragelaphus spekei"