Daily Activity Patterns and Co-Occurrence of Duikers Revealed by an Intensive Camera Trap Survey across Central African Rainforests

• Published in: Animals (Basel) Vol. 10; no. 12; p. 2200
• Main Authors: Houngbégnon, Fructueux G. A., Cornelis, Daniel, Vermeulen, Cédric, Sonké, Bonaventure, Ntie, Stephan, Fayolle, Adeline, Fonteyn, Davy, Lhoest, Simon, Evrard, Quentin, Yapi, Fabrice, Sandrin, François, Vanegas, Liliana, Ayaya, Idriss, Hardy, Clément, Le Bel, Sebastien, Doucet, Jean-Louis
• Format: Journal Article Web Resource
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 24.11.2020; MDPI
• Subjects: Agricultural sciences; Animal biology; Animals; Biodiversity and Ecology; camera traps; Cameras; Central Africa; co-occurrence; daily activity patterns; duikers; Ecology, environment; Environmental Sciences; Environmental sciences & ecology; habitat preferences; Humanities and Social Sciences; Life Sciences; Methods and statistics; Mitochondrial DNA; overlap coefficient; Philantomba; Sciences and technics of agriculture; Sciences de l’environnement & écologie; Sciences du vivant; species diversity; Statistical analysis; surveys; Taxonomy; Central Africa; co-occurrence; overlap coefficient; Central Africa; duikers; daily activity patterns; camera traps; comportement animal; Overlap coefficient; animal sauvage; piège photographique; mesure (activité); instrument de mesure; Co-occurrence; Afrique centrale; organisme indigène; Camera-traps; forêt tropicale humide; enquête; Cephalophus; Daily activity patterns; Duikers; méthode statistique

The duiker community in Central African rainforests includes a diversity of species that can coexist in the same area. The study of their activity patterns is needed to better understand habitat use or association between the species. Using camera traps, we studied the temporal activity patterns, an...