Abstract:
To assess the current status of wildlife resources in the Beijing Ming Tombs Forest Farm, infrared camera trapping was employed to monitor the diversity of mammals and birds in the area from May to December 2021 and from January 2023 to November 2024. During the monitoring period, 97 infrared camera sites were deployed, accumulating 26 447 effective camera-days, and 13 047 independent valid photos. The results are as follows: (1) 7 365 independent and valid photos of mammals of 15 species belonging to 10 families and 5 orders were captured. The top 5 wild mammal species ranked by site occupancy (
P) were
Sus scrofa,
Meles leucurus,
Sciurotamias davidianus,
Prionailurus bengalensis, and
Paguma larvata, while the top 5 ranked by relative abundance index (
RAI) were
Sus scrofa,
Sciurotamias davidianus,
Meles leucurus,
Lepus tolai, and
Paguma larvata. (2) 5 682 independent and valid photos of birds of 72 species belonging to 30 families and 13 orders were captured. The top 5 wild bird species ranked by site occupancy were
Phasianus colchicus,
Urocissa erythroryncha,
Pica serica,
Streptopelia orientalis, and
Phoenicurus auroreus, while the top 5 ranked by relative abundance index were
Urocissa erythroryncha,
Phasianus colchicus,
Pica serica,
Streptopelia orientalis, and
Corvus macrorhynchos. (3) The daily activity rhythm showed that
Sciurotamias davidianus was a diurnal animal,
Meles leucurus and
Paguma larvata were crepuscular animals, and
Lepus tolai and
Sus scrofa were cathemeral animals. The monitoring results reflect the current status of mammal and bird resources in the Beijing Ming Tombs Forest Farm and provide a scientific basis for further biodiversity conservation and management.