Monitoring larger mammals in the Nanzihshian logging road area, Yushan National Park, Taiwan. [Chinese]

摘要

Considering the importance of continuous monitoring programs for wildlife management, we adopted sign count and camera trapping methods to evaluate the abundances and distributions of large mammals along the Nanzihshian logging road of Yushan National Park, south-central Taiwan in 2004. To monitor changes in mammal populations over time, we compared my data with a study conducted in the same area by Prof. Ying Wang in 1995-1996. We identified 20 species of mammals, including the endangered Formosan black bear (Ursus thibetanus formosanus), small Chinese civet (Viverricula indica), and 5 rodent species not recorded in the previous study, but we did not record the once-occurring Formosan hare (Lepus sinensis). Our preliminary data suggest that the abundances and distributions of locally common larger mammals seemed to have increased and expanded. An easy, systematic, consistent, and standardized method for long-term monitoring programs of wildlife population changes is suggested.