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Human Impact on Diversity and Abundance of Baboon (Papio kindae)-edible Fleshy-fruited Trees in Miombo Forests of the Kundelungu National Park, D.R. Congo

  • Kazaba, Paul Kaseya (Unite de Recherche en Ecologie, Restauration ecologique et Paysage (EREP), Departement de Gestion des Ressources Naturelles Renouvelables, Faculte des Sciences Agronomiques, Universite de Lubumbashi) ;
  • Numbi, Desire Mujike (Unite de Recherche en Ecologie, Restauration ecologique et Paysage (EREP), Departement de Gestion des Ressources Naturelles Renouvelables, Faculte des Sciences Agronomiques, Universite de Lubumbashi) ;
  • Muledi, Jonathan Ilunga (Unite de Recherche en Ecologie, Restauration ecologique et Paysage (EREP), Departement de Gestion des Ressources Naturelles Renouvelables, Faculte des Sciences Agronomiques, Universite de Lubumbashi) ;
  • Shutcha, Mylor Ngoy (Unite de Recherche en Ecologie, Restauration ecologique et Paysage (EREP), Departement de Gestion des Ressources Naturelles Renouvelables, Faculte des Sciences Agronomiques, Universite de Lubumbashi) ;
  • Tshikung, Didier Kambol (Departement des Sciences de Base, Faculte de Medecine veterinaire, Universite de Lubumbashi) ;
  • Sowunmi, Akindayo Abiodun (Department of Zoology, University of Ibadan) ;
  • Aweto, Albert Orodena (Department of Geography, University of Ibadan)
  • Received : 2020.03.27
  • Accepted : 2020.07.07
  • Published : 2020.09.30
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Abstract

This study approaches, from a floristic perspective, the under-researched human-primate competition for forest resources. Investigating the human impact on fruit trees edible for Kinda baboons (Papio kindae Lönnberg), we have collated dietary data on a free-ranging troop and floristic information on two forest sites of the Kundelungu National Park (KNP), Democratic Republic of Congo: the relatively intact Integral Zone (IZ) and the human-disturbed Annex Zone (AZ). Trees with DBH≥10 cm have been identified, counted and measured throughout 22 sample plots (11 per site), each measuring 1,000 ㎡. A total of seven woody species whose fruits are eaten by Kinda baboons were recorded. Four of them, namely the Sycamore fig Ficus sycomorus L., the Mobola plum Parinari curatellifolia Planch. ex Benth, the Kudu berry Pseudolachnostylis maprouneifolia Pax and the Monkey orange Strychnos innocua Delile were found in both sites, while the Large-leaved jackal-berry Diosyros kirkii Hiern and the Buffalo thorn Ziziphus mucronata Willd. were exclusively in the IZ, and Strychnos cocculoides Baker only in the AZ. Compared to the IZ, the AZ had lower values of stem density, species richness and diversity indices, suggesting a negative human impact on baboon-edible trees, in line with our hypothesis. Moreover, as was expected, human activities decreased the abundance of larger baboon-edible fruit trees. However, the size-class distribution of P. curatellifolia depicted a reverse J-curve in the AZ. The abundant younger P. curatellifolia trees remaining in that human-disturbed site constitute an important food stock for baboons, if well preserved. These results also illustrate the critical role of rangers' patrols, formerly more frequent (and presumably efficient) in the IZ than in the AZ of the Park. Their implications on baboons and miombo forests are discussed from both the research and conservation perspectives.

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