Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Basic information
Sample name: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Reference: B. Mugerwa, D. Sheil, P. Ssekiranda, M. van Heist, and P. Ezuma. 2012. A camera trap assessment of terrestrial vertebrates in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. African Journal of Ecology 51(1):21-31 [ER 1735]
Geography
Country: Uganda



Coordinate: 0° 1' 30" S, 29° 42' 30" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text as range

Geography comments: "The camera locations covered an elevation range of between 1443 and 2410 m"

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 21.0

CMT: 13.5

MAP: 1650.0

Habitat comments: "medium-altitude moist evergreen forest and high altitude submontane forest"
climate data are based on sample 195

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates,birds

Site area: 3000

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 625 captures or sightings

Years: 2010

Days: 60

Seasons: dry

Nets or traps: 30

Net or trap nights: 1800

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Sampling comments: "During the dry season of 2010, two 30-day camera trap surveys were set sequentially in two arrays carried out from 16th June to 15th July and from 9th August to 7th September... Camera locations were predetermined using reg- ularly spaced points overlaying a map of Bwindi, locating cameras at a density of 1 camera per 1 km2... Automatic digital infrared camera traps were used" (specifically Reconyx model RM45)
map shows 60 sampling points but 1800 trap days/60 days = 30 cameras, so presumably the same cameras were placed at entirely different points in the second phase of the study

Metadata
Sample number: 1934

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-14 20:17:47

Modified: 2016-12-15 04:43:24

Abundance distribution
24 species
3 singletons
total count 625
geometric series index: 32.6
Fisher's α: 4.953
geometric series k: 0.7981
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8441
Shannon's H: 2.2875
Good's u: 0.9952
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Cephalophus nigrifrons17915 kg frugivore-folivore
Cephalophus silvicultor12727 kg frugivore-folivore
Tragelaphus spekii254 kg browser-grazer
Potamochoerus larvatus838 kg grazer-browser
Gorilla beringei794 kg
Pan troglodytes2436 kg frugivore-folivore
Allochrocebus lhoesti86 frugivore-folivore
"Cercopithecus lhoesti"
Papio anubis1618 kg browser-grazer
Galago matschiei1
Caracal aurata272.5 kg carnivore
"Profelis aurata"
Canis adustus69.8 kg carnivore
Genetta servalina113.0 kg carnivore-invertivore
Civettictis civetta214 kg frugivore-insectivore
Nandinia binotata12.7 kg frugivore-invertivore
Mellivora capensis17.7 kg carnivore-invertivore
Atilax paludinosus32.8 kg invertivore-carnivore
Atherurus africanus213.2 kg frugivore
Thryonomys swinderianus25.2 kg
Funisciurus carruthersi25
Cricetomys emini451.1 kg
Turtur tympanistria68.6 g granivore-frugivore
Turtur afer365.6 g granivore
Guttera pucherani121.1 kg omnivore
Francolinus nobilis10878 g