Biological inventories of the Albertine Rift mountains and adjacent lowland forests.

Inventories will be carried out by program trainees in collaboration with instructors as a second phase of training. The taxa to be studied will include mammals, birds, ants and other litter-dwelling insects, butterflies and plants. In each study area, we will establish sampling points in elevational transects (Fisher 1998, Goodman 1998) to learn more about geographic variation in community structure in the Albertine Rift. Although such data have been collected in the region for birds (Prigogine 1985, Omari et al. 1999), these data are not available for other groups.

Biological inventories of the Albertine Rift mountains and adjacent lowland forests.

A primary legacy of this training program will be to provide detailed biotic
surveys of the important montane regions of the eastern Democratic Republic of
Congo (DRC). These regions include: Kahuzi-Biega National Park, the
Itombwe forest, DRC portions of the Virunga Mountains and several smaller
highland areas in the DRC.

Inventories will be carried out by program trainees in collaboration with instructors as a second phase of training. The taxa to be studied will include mammals, birds, ants and other litter-dwelling insects, butterflies and plants. In each study area, we will establish sampling points in elevational transects (Fisher 1998, Goodman 1998) to learn more about geographic variation in community structure in the Albertine Rift. Although such data have been collected in the region for birds (Prigogine 1985, Omari et al. 1999), these data are not available for other groups.