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Ichigkat Muja - Cordillera del Cóndor National Park (2019)
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Basic information
Sample name: Ichigkat Muja - Cordillera del Cóndor National Park (2019)

Reference: J. J. Scullion, J. Fahrenholz, V. Huaytalla, E. M. Rengifo, and E. Lang. 2021. Mammal conservation in Amazonia's protected areas: A case study of Peru's Ichigkat Muja - Cordillera del Cóndor National Park. Global Ecology and Conservation 26:e01451 [ER 3391]
Geography
Country: Peru

State: Amazonas


Coordinate: 3° 19' S, 78° 7' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: Cordillera del Cóndor National Park (CNP) is "located in the department of Amazonas, Peru, and along the border with Ecuador"
"The study area is located within CNP and covers 111 square km across an elevation gradient of 223–713 m"

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: hunting,selective logging

MAT: 24.0

MAP: 3450.0

Habitat comments: "The average annual rainfall of the CNP ranges from 2400 mm to 4500 mm"
"The site is covered with tropical lowland rainforest and pre-montane forests and is located between the steep slopes of the Cóndor Mountains and the Santiago River"
"As of 2016, 86% of the study area was categorized as “intact forest landscapeâ€. There is no history of commercial logging or agriculture inside CNP"
"However, the study area is categorized as a ‘Recovery Zone’ due to historical damage from selective logging, hunting, and three regional conflicts waged between Peru and Ecuador in the 20th century"
"The indigenous Peruvian Wampis communities near the CNP ... have access to large areas of forest to hunt"

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other large mammals

Sampling methods: automatic cameras

Sample size: 621 captures or sightings

Years: 2019

Days: 99

Seasons: dry

Nets or traps: 24

Net or trap nights: 1890

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Trap spacing: 2

Sampling comments: "Two field seasons of camera trap data were collected by placing camera traps along a regular grid of 24 sampling points at a density of one camera per 2 km"
"The cameras were deployed ... entering the dry season ... from July 7th - October 20th, 2018 and July 23rd – October 30th, 2019"
"Browning Strikeforce and Bushnell Trophy Cam cameras were used"
"Cameras were placed 30–50 cm from the ground and located within 100 m of each GPS-referenced sampling point along paths, creeks, and other sites of animal activity"
"In the 2019 survey, 611 images of 16 mammal species were captured in 1890 trap nights", although data for only 15 species are recorded in the table (Appendix D)

Metadata
Sample number: 3771

Contributor: Benjamin Carter

Enterer: Benjamin Carter

Created: 2021-06-07 15:47:10

Modified: 2021-06-07 05:47:10

Abundance distribution
15 species
1 singleton
total count 621
extrapolated richness: 20.7
Fisher's α: 2.769
geometric series k: 0.6629
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6768
Shannon's H: 1.5269
Good's u: 0.9984
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Mazama americana12226 kg frugivore-browser
Cuniculus paca917.4 kg frugivore
Dasypus novemcinctus244.4 kg invertivore
Dasyprocta fuliginosa3164.9 kg
Herpailurus yagouaroundi25.4 kg carnivore
"Puma yagouaroundi"
Leopardus wiedii32.6 kg carnivore
Leopardus pardalis208.4 kg carnivore
Puma concolor249 kg carnivore
Panthera onca265 kg carnivore
Eira barbara64.3 kg frugivore-carnivore
Neogale africana2
"Mustela africana"
Tamandua tetradactyla14.8 kg insectivore
Nasua nasua34.4 kg invertivore-frugivore
Tapirus terrestris10198 kg browser-frugivore
Dicotyles tajacu1721 kg
"Pecari tajacu"
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