Kouilou Département
Basic information
Sample name: Kouilou Département
Reference: B. Orban, G. Kabafouako, R. Morley, C. Vasicek Gaugris, H. Melville, and J. Gaugris. 2018. Common mammal species inventory utilizing camera trapping in the forests of Kouilou Département, Republic of Congo. African Journal of Ecology 56:750-754 [ER 3000]
Geography
Country: Republic of the Congo
Coordinate: 1° 52' S, 15° 49' E
Latlng basis: based on political unit
Geography comments: "205, 000 ha" in the department
coordinate based on Kouilou Département
coordinate based on Kouilou Département
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Protection: unprotected
Substrate: ground surface
Habitat comments: "transitional between Western Congolian forest-savannah mosaics and Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests... a mosaic of hardwood forest, secondary forest, grasslands and savannah"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, primates, rodents, ungulates, other large mammals
Sampling methods: no design, automatic cameras
Sample size: 125 captures or sightings
Years: 2012
Days: 72
Nets or traps: 10
Net or trap nights: 595
Camera type: digital
Cameras paired: no
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "Twenty-five sites... were monitored over 72 days between May (wet-season end) and July 2012 (dry-season) by moving cameras regularly. Not all cameras were deployed at all times... Ten passive infrared cameras... were used... Cameras were placed on existing game trails... mounted 40-60 cm above ground on tree trunks... without lures... After 30 min" photographs of identical animals "were considered a new photographic event"
counts of indeterminate birds, insects, and rodents are omitted from the register
counts of indeterminate birds, insects, and rodents are omitted from the register
Metadata
Sample no: 3229
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Modifier no: John Alroy
Created: 2019-02-28 19:29:52
Modified: 2024-11-05 01:51:02
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
22 species
6 singletons
total count 125
geometric series index: 38.1
Fisher's α: 7.742
geometric series k: 0.8763
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9212
Shannon's H: 2.7431
Good's u: 0.9523
Register
| Homo sapiens (human) | 13 | 64.0 kg |
| Loxodonta cyclotis (African forest elephant) | 1 | 1419.0 kg |
| "Loxodonta africana cyclotis" | ||
| Funisciurus congicus | 1 | |
| Funisciurus isabella | 1 | 110.0 g |
| Funisciurus lemniscatus | 4 | 141.0 g |
| Paraxerus poensis | 11 | 100.0 g |
| Protoxerus stangeri | 3 | 704.0 g |
| Cricetomys emini | 4 | 1.1 kg |
| Atherurus africanus | 7 | 3.2 kg |
| Thryonomys gregorianus | 1 | 2.2 kg |
| Thryonomys swinderianus | 3 | 5.2 kg |
| Canis adustus (side-striped jackal) | 11 | 9.8 kg |
| Genetta maculata | 1 | 1.7 kg |
| Genetta angolensis | 6 | |
| Civettictis civetta | 16 | |
| Atilax paludinosus | 16 | 2.8 kg |
| Phataginus tricuspis | 2 | 2.5 kg |
| Potamochoerus porcus (red river hog) | 1 | 66.0 kg |
| Syncerus caffer nanus (African buffalo) | 2 | 548.0 kg |
| Tragelaphus scriptus (harnessed bushbuck) | 8 | 31.0 kg |
| Philantomba monticola (blue duiker) | 6 | |
| Cephalophus callipygus (Peters's duiker) | 7 | 20.0 kg |