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]

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"

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

Sample number: 3229

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Modifier no: John Alroy

Created: 2019-02-28 19:29:52

Modified: 2024-11-05 01:51:02