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A biodiversity assessment of the Monte Mitra forest, Monte Alen National Park, Equatorial Guinea
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A biodiversity assessment of the Monte Mitra forest, Monte Alen National Park, Equatorial Guinea
During a three-week period in September and October 2005, a multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary team undertook a rapid biodiversity assessment of the Monte Mitra forest within the Monte Alen National Park.
Sunderland, Terry C. H. · 2005
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Abstract
The field surveys focussed on assessments of the vegetation, using both standardised plot and transect methods, large mammals, birds and reptiles and amphibians. Human signs within the National Park were also recorded by the field teams enabling an assessment of the management issues pertaining to the conservation of the area to be made. The information presented in this report suggest that the Monte Mitra forest is one of the most important reservoirs for biodiversity in the Congo Basin. In addition, the theory that the wider Monte Alen and Monts de Cristal Inselberg Forest Landscape is a Pleistocene refuge of global importance is further supported by our findings, particularly when our results are compared with other sites in the region. (Author abstract)
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