Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Basic information
Sample name: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Reference: B. Mugerwa, D. Sheil, P. Ssekiranda, M. van Heist, and P. Ezuma. 2012. A camera trap assessment of terrestrial vertebrates in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. African Journal of Ecology 51(1):21-31 [ER 1735]
Geography
Country: Uganda
Coordinate: 0° 1' 30" S, 29° 42' 30" E
Basis of coordinate: stated in text as range
Geography comments: "The camera locations covered an elevation range of between 1443 and 2410 m"
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Climate and habitat
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 21.0
CMT: 13.5
MAP: 1650.0
Habitat comments: "medium-altitude moist evergreen forest and high altitude submontane forest"
climate data are based on sample 195
climate data are based on sample 195
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, primates, rodents, ungulates, birds
Site area: 3000.000
Sampling methods: no design, automatic cameras
Sample size: 625
Years: 2010
Days: 60
Seasons: dry
Nets or traps: 30
Net or trap nights: 1800
Camera type: digital
Cameras paired: no
Sampling comments: "During the dry season of 2010, two 30-day camera trap surveys were set sequentially in two arrays carried out from 16th June to 15th July and from 9th August to 7th September... Camera locations were predetermined using reg- ularly spaced points overlaying a map of Bwindi, locating cameras at a density of 1 camera per 1 km2... Automatic digital infrared camera traps were used" (specifically Reconyx model RM45)
map shows 60 sampling points but 1800 trap days/60 days = 30 cameras, so presumably the same cameras were placed at entirely different points in the second phase of the study
map shows 60 sampling points but 1800 trap days/60 days = 30 cameras, so presumably the same cameras were placed at entirely different points in the second phase of the study
Metadata
Sample: 1934
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2016-01-14 20:17:47
Modified: 2016-12-15 15:43:24
Abundance distribution
24 species
3 singletons
total count 625
Fisher's α: 4.953
geometric series k: 0.7981
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8441
Shannon's H: 2.2875
Good's u: 0.9952
Register
| Cephalophus nigrifrons | 179 | 14 kg frugivore-folivore |
| Cephalophus silvicultor | 127 | frugivore-folivore |
| Tragelaphus spekii | 2 | 59 kg frugivore-folivore |
| Potamochoerus larvatus | 8 | |
| Gorilla beringei | 7 | |
| Pan troglodytes | 24 | |
| Cercopithecus lhoesti | 86 | |
| Papio anubis | 16 | 18 kg |
| Galago matschiei | 1 | |
| Caracal aurata | 27 | carnivore |
| "Profelis aurata" | ||
| Canis adustus | 6 | 9.8 kg carnivore |
| Genetta servalina | 11 | carnivore-invertivore |
| Civettictis civetta | 2 | 11 kg frugivore-insectivore |
| Nandinia binotata | 1 | 2.7 kg frugivore-invertivore |
| Mellivora capensis | 1 | 7.7 kg carnivore-invertivore |
| Atilax paludinosus | 3 | 2.8 kg invertivore-carnivore |
| Atherurus africanus | 21 | |
| Thryonomys swinderianus | 2 | |
| Funisciurus carruthersi | 25 | |
| Cricetomys emnii | 45 | |
| Turtur tympanistria | 6 | 8.6 g granivore |
| Turtur afer | 3 | 65.6 g |
| Guttera pucherani | 12 | 1.1 kg |
| Francolinus nobilis | 10 | 878 g |