Live trapping of small mammals in the Kouilou Département, Republic of Congo

Orban, Ben; Gaugris, Jérôme Y.; Kabafouako, Gérard; Morley, Robert J.; Gaugris, Caroline Vasicek; Melville, Haemish

doi:10.1111/aje.12672

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“…Any financial saving could be used to deploy more cameras, considering that minimum configuration deployments may fail to provide representative results (Melville & Gaugris, 2019). Alternatively, additional trap arrays for small mammals (Orban et al, 2019) could be deployed to improve detections on these taxa.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…RTs were undertaken after completion of other daily tasks (see Orban et al 2018, 2019), which included: CT arrays management (deployment, checking and retrieval) Sherman trap (ST) arrays management (deployment, daily checking, clearing and removal) Effort was evaluated based on 11.5‐h workdays (7–19 h, minus 30 min lunch break) and time spend on CT and ST arrays (Table S1).…”

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“…The purchase cost of a camera trap was US$ 250 per unit. Sherman traps deployed by Orban et al (2019) cost US$ 26 per unit. RT work required no special equipment purchase.…”

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“…RTs were undertaken after completion of other daily tasks (see Orban et al 2018Orban et al , 2019, which included:…”

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“…Terrestrial mammal diversity assessments require sampling small mammals through live capture (Happold, 2013; Orban et al, 2019) and larger mammals via camera trapping (Melville & Gaugris, 2019) and line transects (Larsen, 2016). Line transects used for assessing occupancy and relative abundance rely on establishing long (1.5–5 km) pathways walked repeatedly over several months or seasons (Negeri et al, 2015).…”

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Short recce transects or camera trap surveys—Short recce surveys highlighted as a useful supplement for rapid biodiversity assessments in the Republic of the Congo

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A rapid biodiversity assessment was conducted in the Republic of the Congo including a systematic biodiversity study (including a targeted study of mammals), implemented over two seasons. One hundred thirteen recce transects (250 m by 2 m) were undertaken over 34 days of fieldwork. A total of 19 species were detected (3 to genus level only). The encounter rate was 26.65 mammalian signs per km; no differences in numbers of signs between season appeared; however, the dry-season species accumulation pattern was higher than during wet season. Correlation analysis showed increasing density of mammals as distance away from villages, lakes and coast increased. The correlation result is deemed to highlight not only a substantial hunting pressure and avoidance of humans, but also preference for forested habitats noted to appear from 20 km distance from the coast. Using high numbers of relatively short recce transect proved a useful supplementary method for assessing mammalian diversity during rapid biodiversity assessments. Results suggest that 70 recce transects (with a minimum of eight per habitat type) would have been sufficient to yield this information.

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

“…The purchase cost of a camera trap was US$ 250 per unit. Sherman traps deployed by Orban et al (2019) cost US$ 26 per unit. RT work required no special equipment purchase.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…RTs were undertaken after completion of other daily tasks (see Orban et al 2018Orban et al , 2019, which included:…”

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confidence: 99%

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Camera trap inventory of wild mammals in the Hinda District, Republic of Congo

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Vanthomme et al., 2013), Thus, information relating to mammalian presence is of importance to conservation and development planning. Socio-economic development in central and western Africa has commonly taken the form of natural resource extraction. While this extraction takes place on unprotected land, such activities can have severely negative effects on mammal populations as unprotected land can contribute to biodiversity conservation more effectively than formalised protected areas (Tranquilli et al., 2014). This study took place in the Kouilou Department of the Republic of Congo. Dowsett and Dowsett-Lemaire (1991) conducted one of

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Live trapping of small mammals in the Kouilou Département, Republic of Congo

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Short recce transects or camera trap surveys—Short recce surveys highlighted as a useful supplement for rapid biodiversity assessments in the Republic of the Congo

Short recce transects or camera trap surveys—Short recce surveys highlighted as a useful supplement for rapid biodiversity assessments in the Republic of the Congo

Camera trap inventory of wild mammals in the Hinda District, Republic of Congo

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