Estimating the biomass of large mammalian herbivores in a tropical montane forest: a method of faecal counting that avoids assuming a 'steady state' system.

Published online
01 Apr 1995
Content type
Journal article
Journal title
Journal of Applied Ecology
DOI
10.2307/2404420

Author(s)
Plumptre, A. J. & Harris, S.

Publication language
English
Location
Africa South of Sahara & Rwanda

Abstract

Faecal counting techniques were used to census 5 large mammalian herbivore species during 1988-89 in the Parc National des Volcans in Rwanda: Cephalophus nigrifrons, Tragelaphus scriptus, Syncerus caffer, Gorilla gorilla beringei, Loxodonta africana.

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