@article{Villegas Arguedas_2022, title={Relative abundance of wild mammals in Cinchona, Costa Rica, before the 2009 earthquake: estimation with camera traps}, volume={14}, url={https://revistas.uned.ac.cr/index.php/cuadernos/article/view/3794}, DOI={10.22458/urj.v14i1.3794}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Introduction:</strong> On January 8, 2009, Costa Rica was hit by the Cinchona earthquake in Alajuela Province. When the earthquake hit, a network of automatic cameras had been operating in the premontane rain forest for two years, recording the relative abundance of mammals. <strong>Objective:</strong> To quantify the relative abundance of wild mammals in the Cinchona area, before the earthquake, and to serve as a point of comparison for future studies. <strong>Methods:</strong> With automatic cameras running a total of 1555 "camera-nights". <strong>Results:</strong> I obtained 150 photographs corresponding to 10 species. The most abundant were the peccary, <em>Pecari tajacu</em>, with 150 records; the guatuza, <em>Dasyprocta punctata</em>, with 31; and the tepezcuintle, <em>Cuniculus paca</em>, with 29 records. I also recorded the puma, <em>Puma concolor</em> (one male and one female, 0,02 pumas/km<sup>2</sup>); and the ocelot, <em>Leopardus pardalis</em> (one male, two females and one calf, 0,43ind/km<sup>2</sup>). <strong>Conclusion:</strong> The abundance of wild mammals in Cinchona was relatively low before the earthquake, but it included large cats declared endangered in Costa Rica.</p>}, number={1}, journal={UNED Research Journal}, author={Villegas Arguedas, Juan Carlos}, year={2022}, month={May}, pages={e3794} }