MEDIUM AND LARGE VERTEBRATES FROM AN AREA UNDER LOW IMPACT FOREST MANAGEMENT IN THE SOUTH-WEST AMAZON
Fauna inventory; Rondônia; Low impact Forest Management; Conservation; camera trap
For the understand related to the biodiversity of a certain area in space and time, it is necessary that the first parameter studied is the composition of the species occurring in it. This study aims to make an inventory of the medium and large-sized terrestrial vertebrate fauna, including mammals, game birds and reptiles in three sample areas of a farm in the municipality of Cujubim/RO, with 74.000h of open rainforest explored by a Low Impact Forest Management. The inventory was carried out using the photographic trapping method in three sample areas, one of which was considered control: Reserva Absoluta (RA) and two with different chronologies of managed exploitation: after 20 years of exploration in the Annual Production Units (UPA) with an average size of 4km², (UPAs 18 and 19) and after 11 years (UPA 14). The camera traps (AFs) used were Bushnell (2019) model 119936C, and the 32 gigabyte memory cards. 30 Sample Units (SU) were defined with a minimum spacing of 2km between them. In each AU, only one AF was allocated, positioned at the height of 0.45 m from the ground with the smallest possible angle of inclination, in which the field of view of the machine corresponds to an angle of 75º to 25 meters was cleaned, without mischaracterizing the environment. Data collection took place over 180 days in two campaigns in the years 2020 and 2021 (90 days each). Every 45 days, the 15 AFs (five in each area) were relocated to another five points in each area for another 45 days. In 2020, 1,526 records were obtained and in 2021, 2,092 records of the focus group in the three study areas, covering 13 Orders, 24 families, 37 genera and 41 species, with representatives of the Mammalia Class distributed in eight Orders:Didelphimorphia: Didelphis marsupialis e Lutreolina crassicaudata; Cingulata: Dasypus sp. e Priodontes maximus; Pilosa: Myrmecophaga tridactyla e Tamandua tetradactyla Rodentia: Cuniculus paca, Dasyprocta fuliginosa e Sciurillus pusillus; Primates: Mico rondoni, Leontocebus weddelli, Pithecia irrorata, Plecturocebus brunneus e Sapajus apella; Carnivora: Atelocynus microtis, Speothos venaticus, Eira barbara, Nasua nasua, Procyon cancrivorus, Leopardus pardalis, Puma concolor e Panthera onca; Perissodactyla: Tapirus terrestris, Cetartiodactyla: Dicotyles tajacu, Tayassu pecari; Mazama americana e Mazama nemorivaga. Classe Aves - Aramides cajanea, Crypturellus obsoletus, Crypturellus strigulosus, Nothocrax urumutum, Odontophorus gujanensis, Patagioenas subvinacea, Pauxi tuberosa, Penelope jacquacu, Psophia viridis, Tinamus guttatus, Tinamus major e Tinamus tao; Classe Reptilia - Corallus hortulanus e Geochelone denticulata