Mwanihana Forest (2013)
Basic information
Sample name: Mwanihana Forest (2013)
Reference: C. Hegerl, N. D. Burgess, M. R. Nielsen, E. Martin, M. Ciolli, and F. Rovero. 2015. Using camera trap data to assess the impact of bushmeat hunting on forest mammals in Tanzania. Oryx -:1-11 [ER 1753]
Geography
Country: Tanzania
Coordinate: 8° 45' S, 37° 52' E
Latlng basis: stated in text
Geography comments: coordinate based on sample 1945
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 31.0
CMT: 21.0
MAP: 1875.0
Habitat comments: "covered by continuous forests, from lowland deciduous to submontane and montane evergreen forests, on an elevational gradient of c. 300 to > 2000 m... hunting is rare here"
MAP 2000 to 2500 mm
MAP 2000 to 2500 mm
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, primates, rodents, ungulates, other large mammals, other small mammals
Site area: 6000.0
Sampling methods: no design, automatic cameras
Sample size: 982 captures or sightings
Years: 2013
Nets or traps: 30
Net or trap nights: 917
Camera type: digital
Cameras paired: no
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "60 Reconyx RM45 camera traps... distributed over three sequential arrays of 20 cameras, were placed at a density of 1 camera per 2 km2 for a minimum of 30 days. Camera trapping was conducted during July–November 2013... . To improve comparability between data from the Reserve and Mwanihana Forest 30 of the 60 cameras were selected" for analysis
Metadata
Sample no: 1956
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2016-01-20 16:46:03
Modified: 2016-01-20 05:46:03
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
22 species
3 singletons
total count 982
geometric series index: 29.0
Fisher's α: 3.993
geometric series k: 0.7692
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8495
Shannon's H: 2.2045
Good's u: 0.9969
Register
| Dendrohyrax validus (eastern tree hyrax) | 41 | |
| Loxodonta africana (African bush elephant) | 5 | 2731.0 kg |
| Petrodromus tetradactylus | 1 | |
| Rhynchocyon udzungwensis | 42 | |
| Atilax paludinosus | 4 | 2.8 kg |
| Bdeogale crassicauda | 169 | |
| Genetta servalina lowei | 17 | 3.0 kg |
| Mellivora capensis (honey badger) | 8 | 7.7 kg |
| Nandinia binotata | 7 | 2.7 kg |
| Panthera pardus (leopard) | 3 | |
| Cercocebus sanjei (Sanje mangabey) | 81 | |
| Cercopithecus mitis (blue monkey) | 5 | |
| Piliocolobus gordonorum (Udzungwa red colobus) | 2 | |
| "Procolobus gordonorum" | ||
| Cricetomys gambianus | 247 | 1.4 kg |
| Paraxerus vexillarius | 27 | |
| Thryonomys swinderianus | 1 | 5.2 kg |
| Cephalophus harveyi (Harvey's red duiker) | 188 | 12.0 kg |
| Cephalophus spadix (Abbott's duiker) | 32 | |
| Nesotragus moschatus (suni) | 88 | 3.7 kg |
| "Neotragus moschatus" | ||
| Potamochoerus larvatus (bushpig) | 8 | 38.0 kg |
| Syncerus caffer (African buffalo) | 5 | 548.0 kg |
| Tragelaphus scriptus (harnessed bushbuck) | 1 | 31.0 kg |