Mainaro
Basic information
Sample name: Mainaro
Sample aka: Kibale National Park
Reference: J. Widness and G. P. Aronsen. 2017. Camera trap data on mammal presence, behaviour and poaching: a case study from Mainaro, Kibale National Park, Uganda. African Journal of Ecology 56(2):383-389 [ER 2856]
Geography
Country: Uganda
Coordinate: 0° 22' 35" N, 30° 23' 18" E
Latlng basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "~108 km2 of southwest Kibale" in the national park
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: secondary forest
Protection: national/state park
Substrate: ground surface
Habitat comments: "Much of the Mainaro area was cleared for farmland in the 1980s; however, farmers were removed in the eraly 1990s... In 1994, a large-scale reforestation programme was started... Cameras were placed in both the mature forest and in regenerating areas"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, primates, ungulates, other large mammals
Sampling methods: no design, automatic cameras
Sample size: 67 captures or sightings
Years: 2006, 2008 - 2010
Days: 95
Nets or traps: 6
Net or trap nights: 621
Camera type: both
Cameras paired: no
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "Camera traps were set at a height of 0.5–1 m in various habitat types and were active 18–32 days per year (average = 24 days)... The traps included two DeerCam DC300 35-mm film cameras, five Cuddeback NF-4300 NoFlash infrared digital cameras, and two Recon Extreme Infrared Extreme Weather Model 5.0 digital cameras... Images separated by 60 min or more were treated as separate events"
Metadata
Sample no: 3090
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2018-09-08 17:51:25
Modified: 2018-09-08 07:53:40
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
12 species
3 singletons
total count 67
geometric series index: 20.9
Fisher's α: 4.26
geometric series k: 0.7729
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.837
Shannon's H: 2.0797
Good's u: 0.9557
Register
| Cephalophus weynsi (Wyens's duiker) | 2 | |
| Philantomba monticola (blue duiker) | 6 | |
| Syncerus caffer (African buffalo) | 1 | 548.0 kg |
| Tragelaphus scriptus (harnessed bushbuck) | 5 | 31.0 kg |
| Caracal aurata (African golden cat) | 3 | |
| Civettictis civetta | 3 | |
| Cercopithecus ascanius (red-tailed monkey) | 1 | 4.0 kg |
| Lophocebus albigena (grey-cheeked mangabey) | 3 | 7.0 kg |
| Papio ursinus (chacma baboon) | 16 | 20.0 kg |
| Piliocolobus tephrosceles (Ugandan red colobus) | 1 | |
| Pan troglodytes (chimpanzee) | 9 | 36.0 kg |
| Loxodonta africana (African bush elephant) | 17 | 2731.0 kg |