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: 0° 52' S, 14° 49' E
Coordinate 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
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 number: 3229
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-02-28 19:29:52
Modified: 2019-02-28 08:35:31
Abundance distribution
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
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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Loxodonta cyclotis | 1 | 1419 kg browser |
"Loxodonta africana cyclotis" | ||
Funisciurus congicus | 1 | |
Funisciurus isabella | 1 | 110 g frugivore |
Funisciurus lemniscatus | 4 | 141 g frugivore-insectivore |
Paraxerus poensis | 11 | 100 g frugivore-insectivore |
Protoxerus stangeri | 3 | 704 g frugivore |
Cricetomys emini | 4 | 1.1 kg |
Atherurus africanus | 7 | 3.2 kg frugivore |
Thryonomys gregorianus | 1 | 2.2 kg |
Thryonomys swinderianus | 3 | 5.2 kg |
Canis adustus | 11 | 9.8 kg carnivore |
Genetta maculata | 1 | 1.7 kg |
Genetta angolensis | 6 | |
Civettictis civetta | 16 | 14 kg frugivore-insectivore |
Atilax paludinosus | 16 | 2.8 kg invertivore-carnivore |
Phataginus tricuspis | 2 | 2.5 kg |
Potamochoerus porcus | 1 | 66 kg |
Syncerus caffer nanus | 2 | 548 kg grazer-browser |
Tragelaphus scriptus | 8 | 31 kg browser-grazer |
Philantomba monticola | 6 | 4.3 kg frugivore-folivore |
Cephalophus callipygus | 7 | 20 kg frugivore-folivore |