Authors:
Sundai Silang, Oswald Braken Tisen, Wong Ting Chung and Kalyana Sundram
Book:
Proceedings of the 15th International Peat Congress
Venue:
Kuching
Keywords:
amphibians, birds, peat-swamp, primates, sarawak, small-mammals, ulu-sebuyau
Documentfile:
ipc16p243-247p051silangtisen.etal_.pdf
Summary:
SUMMARY
The Ulu Sebuyau National Park (USNP) is located on the lower Batang Lupar river covering areas of mainly peat swamp forests in the Samarahan and Sri Aman Divisions of Sarawak, Malaysia. Surveys of terrestrial fauna were carried out from August to October 2014 and from September to October 2015 in the eastern and north-western parts of the park which consisted of logged-over peat swamp forests. The surveys concentrated on four faunal groups; primates, small mammals, birds and amphibians. Methods employed during the surveys included line transects, mist-netting and live-trapping. Survey results recorded five primate species, seven small mammal species…