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Table 3 The relative abundance of herbivorous/folivorous mammals that can often suppress regeneration and the abundance of seed-dispersing frugivorous primates that promote regeneration in an old-growth forest in Kibale National Park, Uganda. For the primate species we also include data on group sizes estimates from which we calculated individuals / km walked in the final survey

From: A 40-year evaluation of drivers of African rainforest change

Year

Elephant

Duiker

Bushbuck

Pig

Red colobus

B&W colobus

Redtail monkey

Blue monkey

Mangabey

Tracks or Groups per km walked

1970

    

0.97

0.22

0.70

0.45

0.09

1980

    

1.14

0.12

0.64

0.39

0.16

1996

0.05

1.11

0.09

0.13

0.64

0.17

0.35

0.09

0.40

2005

7.00

8.71

1.25

1.75

0.47

0.21

0.41

0.17

0.19

2008

3.19

6.87

1.62

4.63

0.67

0.33

0.73

0.14

0.32

2014

6.66

10.16

1.23

2.14

0.56

0.27

0.56

0.15

0.27

2019

6.68

8.12

1.68

0.91

0.62

0.29

0.42

0.10

0.23

Group Sizes

1996

    

35.26

8.89

20.50

9.74

12.05

2010

    

47.47

7.89

13.99

10.60

17.31

2018

    

71.90

15.14

23.30

15.10

25.60

# of Individuals per km walked

1996

    

22.57

1.51

7.18

0.88

4.82

2010

    

31.80

2.60

10.21

1.48

5.54

2019

    

44.58

4.39

9.79

1.51

5.89