Check List 13(4): 35-45, doi: 10.15560/13.4.35
Large and medium-sized mammals of Buenaventura Reserve, southwestern Ecuador
Jeronimo Torres-Porras‡§, Marlon E Cobos‡, José Manuel Seoane‡§, Nikolay Aguirre‡‡ Universidad Nacional de Loja, Loja, Ecuador§ Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain
Corresponding author: Jeronimo Torres-Porras ( jeronimo.torres@uco.es ) Academic editor: Átilla Colombo Ferreguetti © 2017 Jeronimo Torres-Porras, Marlon E Cobos, José Manuel Seoane, Nikolay Aguirre. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Torres-Porras J, Cobos M, Seoane J, Aguirre N (2017) Large and medium-sized mammals of Buenaventura Reserve, southwestern Ecuador. Check List 13(4): 35-45. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.4.35 |  |
Abstract
Mammals are the third most threatened group of vertebrates and tropical ones are the most endangered according to recent studies. The Buenaventura Reserve protects 20 km2 of Montane Tropical forest in the southwestern part of the Ecuadorian Andes. This study estimates the mammal species richness of this reserve by using camera traps and occasional sightings. We recorded 20 species of large and medium-sized mammals in this small protected area, which shows the reserve’s important role in the conservation of these species. This study also shows the conservation priority that these forests should have in the western part of the Ecuadorian Andes.
Keywords
Neotropical mammals; species inventory; cloud forest; conservation; biodiversity