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

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

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)1364.0 kg
Loxodonta cyclotis (African forest elephant)11419.0 kg
"Loxodonta africana cyclotis"
Funisciurus congicus 1
Funisciurus isabella 1110.0 g
Funisciurus lemniscatus 4141.0 g
Paraxerus poensis 11100.0 g
Protoxerus stangeri 3704.0 g
Cricetomys emini 41.1 kg
Atherurus africanus 73.2 kg
Thryonomys gregorianus 12.2 kg
Thryonomys swinderianus 35.2 kg
Canis adustus (side-striped jackal)119.8 kg
Genetta maculata 11.7 kg
Genetta angolensis 6
Civettictis civetta 16
Atilax paludinosus 162.8 kg
Phataginus tricuspis 22.5 kg
Potamochoerus porcus (red river hog)166.0 kg
Syncerus caffer nanus (African buffalo)2548.0 kg
Tragelaphus scriptus (harnessed bushbuck)831.0 kg
Philantomba monticola (blue duiker)6
Cephalophus callipygus (Peters's duiker)720.0 kg