Sampling locations for a rapid biological inventory of the Acarai-Corentyne Corridor of southern Guyana
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May 26, 2025 version files 33.01 MB
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ACC_FishTeam_Map.pdf
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Birds_RI_32_C1_Amuku.jpg
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Birds_RI_32_C2_MonkeyJump.jpg
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Birds_RI_32_C3_CampNewRiver.jpg
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README.md
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RI_32_C1_Amuku_camera_recorders2.jpg
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RI_32_C1_Amuku_DEM_102924.pdf
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RI_32_C1_Amuku_eDNA2.pdf
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RI_32_C1_Amuku_FC_102924.pdf
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RI_32_C1_Amuku_mistnets.jpg
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RI_32_C2_CampMonkeyJump_DEM_110524.pdf
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RI_32_C2_CampMonkeyJump_FC_110524.pdf
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RI_32_C2_MonkeyJump_camera_recorders2.jpg
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RI_32_C2_MonkeyJump_eDNA2.pdf
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RI_32_C3_CampNewRiver_camera_recorders.jpg
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RI_32_C3_CampNewRiver_DEM_102924.pdf
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RI_32_C3_CampNewRiver_eDNA.pdf
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RI_32_C3_CampNewRiver_FC_113024.pdf
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Abstract
In November 2024 a mutlidisciplinary group of scientists and local experts sampled plants, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals at three sites in the Acarai-Corentyne Corridor of southern Guyana. This dataset includes information on the geographic location and other characteristics of fish sampling stations, camera trap stations, bird audio recorder sites, bat audio recorder sites, and eDNA sampling sites. The full report of the rapid inventory was published in 2025 as: Pitman, N., C. Rutt, L. S. de Souza, R. E. Oakley, F. Carrasco-Rueda, S. Picq, and J. M. Campbell, eds. 2025. Guyana: Acarai-Corentyne Corridor. Rapid Biological and Social Inventories Report 32. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.
Dataset DOI: 10.5061/dryad.m0cfxppg5
Description of the data and file structure
This dataset consists of 19 maps showing locations where biodiversity was sampled by a large team of scientists during a rapid inventory of Guyana’s Acarai-Corentyne Corridor on 6–24 November 2024. The expedition was co-led by the Field Museum and Guyana’s Protected Areas Commission, with support from local experts from three neighboring Amerindian communities.
All maps in the dataset refer to the three campsites visited during the inventory: two along the upper Essequibo River and one at the juncture of the New and Corentyne rivers. The three campsites, all temporary sites with no long-term infrastructure, were:
Camp Amuku (Essequibo watershed; 5-11 November 2024): 01° 49' 36.95" N 58° 32' 33.8" W
Camp Monkey Jump (Essequibo and New watersheds; 11-16 November 2024): 02° 07' 47.8" N 58° 18' 38.2" W
Camp New River (New watershed; 17-23 November 2024): 03° 19' 10.89" N 57° 36' 51.79" W
Sampling locations shown in the maps in this dataset are for fish sampling stations (Amerindian fish traps and poison vine, gill, hand and cast nets, drag seines, and environmental DNA); bird audio recording stations; bat audio recording stations; bat mist nets; camera traps; and environmental DNA. This dataset was assembled in May 2025.
A full report on the expedition is to be published in June 2025. The citation of the report is:
Pitman, Nigel, Cameron Rutt, Lesley S. de Souza, R. Elliott Oakley, Farah Carrasco-Rueda, Sophie Picq, and Jeremy M. Campbell, eds. 2025. Guyana: Acarai-Corentyne Corridor. Rapid Biological and Social Inventories Report 32. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.
The report will be digitally accessible on the Biodiversity Heritage Library (https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org) and the Field Museum's rapid inventory program webpage (https://www.rapidinventories.fieldmuseum.org).
For questions about these data please contact Lesley de Souza (ldesouza@fieldmuseum.org) or Nigel Pitman (npitman@fieldmuseum.org).
Files and variables
File: RI_32_C3_CampNewRiver_FC_113024.pdf
Description: A map of the trail systems at Camp New River, with a false-color satellite image as the base map. False-color images publicly available at https://etsin.fairdata.fi/dataset/1b32feb8-e297-4113-b91f-c58fff275039 and described in Van doninck, Jasper, and Hanna Tuomisto. 2019. ”Amazonian Landsat TM/ETM+ composite July-September 2000-2009”. http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:att:71ba2590-7112-4669-a4b3-a427c85c7a86
File: RI_32_C1_Amuku_FC_102924.pdf
Description: A map of the trail systems at Camp Amuku, with a false-color satellite image as the base map. False-color images publicly available at https://etsin.fairdata.fi/dataset/1b32feb8-e297-4113-b91f-c58fff275039 and described in Van doninck, Jasper, and Hanna Tuomisto. 2019. ”Amazonian Landsat TM/ETM+ composite July-September 2000-2009”. http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:att:71ba2590-7112-4669-a4b3-a427c85c7a86
File: RI_32_C1_Amuku_DEM_102924.pdf
Description: A map of the trail systems at Camp Amuku, with a digital elevation model as the base map. Source of DEM: ASF DAAC 2010_2011, ALOS PALSAR_Radiometric_Terrain_Corrected_high_res; Includes Material Jaxa/METI 2024, obtained and publicly available at https://search.asf.alaska.edu/#/. All other information generated by the Field Museum.
File: RI_32_C2_CampMonkeyJump_DEM_110524.pdf
Description: A map of the trail systems at Camp Monkey Jump, with a digital elevation model as the base map. Source of DEM: ASF DAAC 2010_2011, ALOS PALSAR_Radiometric_Terrain_Corrected_high_res; Includes Material Jaxa/METI 2024, obtained and publicly available at https://search.asf.alaska.edu/#/. All other information generated by the Field Museum.
File: RI_32_C3_CampNewRiver_DEM_102924.pdf
Description: A map of the trail systems at Camp New River, with a digital elevation model as the base map. Source of DEM: ASF DAAC 2010_2011, ALOS PALSAR_Radiometric_Terrain_Corrected_high_res; Includes Material Jaxa/METI 2024, obtained and publicly available at https://search.asf.alaska.edu/#/. All other information generated by the Field Museum.
File: RI_32_C2_CampMonkeyJump_FC_110524.pdf
Description: A map of the trail systems at Camp Monkey Jump, with a false-color satellite image as the base map. False-color images publicly available at https://etsin.fairdata.fi/dataset/1b32feb8-e297-4113-b91f-c58fff275039 and described in Van doninck, Jasper, and Hanna Tuomisto. 2019. ”Amazonian Landsat TM/ETM+ composite July-September 2000-2009”. http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:att:71ba2590-7112-4669-a4b3-a427c85c7a86
File: RI_32_C3_CampNewRiver_camera_recorders.jpg
Description: A map of camera trap stations and audio recorder stations along the trail system at Camp New River, with a digital elevation model as the base map and altitudinal profiles of each trail. Source of DEM: ASF DAAC 2010_2011, ALOS PALSAR_Radiometric_Terrain_Corrected_high_res; Includes Material Jaxa/METI 2024, obtained and publicly available at https://search.asf.alaska.edu/#/. All other information generated by the Field Museum.
File: RI_32_C1_Amuku_camera_recorders2.jpg
Description: A map of camera trap stations and audio recorder stations along the trail system at Camp Amuku, with a digital elevation model as the base map and altitudinal profiles of each trail. Source of DEM: ASF DAAC 2010_2011, ALOS PALSAR_Radiometric_Terrain_Corrected_high_res; Includes Material Jaxa/METI 2024, obtained and publicly available at https://search.asf.alaska.edu/#/. All other information generated by the Field Museum.
File: RI_32_C2_MonkeyJump_camera_recorders2.jpg
Description: A map of camera trap stations and audio recorder stations along the trail system at Camp Monkey Jump, with a digital elevation model as the base map and altitudinal profiles of each trail. Source of DEM: ASF DAAC 2010_2011, ALOS PALSAR_Radiometric_Terrain_Corrected_high_res; Includes Material Jaxa/METI 2024, obtained and publicly available at https://search.asf.alaska.edu/#/. All other information generated by the Field Museum.
File: RI_32_C3_CampNewRiver_mistnets2.jpg
Description: A map of mist net stations along the trail system at Camp New River, with a digital elevation model as the base map. Source of DEM: ASF DAAC 2010_2011, ALOS PALSAR_Radiometric_Terrain_Corrected_high_res; Includes Material Jaxa/METI 2024, obtained and publicly available at https://search.asf.alaska.edu/#/. All other information generated by the Field Museum.
File: RI_32_C2_MonkeyJump_mistnets2.jpg
Description: A map of mist net stations along the trail system at Camp Monkey Jump, with a digital elevation model as the base map. Source of DEM: ASF DAAC 2010_2011, ALOS PALSAR_Radiometric_Terrain_Corrected_high_res; Includes Material Jaxa/METI 2024, obtained and publicly available at https://search.asf.alaska.edu/#/. All other information generated by the Field Museum.
File: RI_32_C1_Amuku_mistnets.jpg
Description: A map of mist net stations along the trail system at Camp Amuku, with a digital elevation model as the base map. Source of DEM: ASF DAAC 2010_2011, ALOS PALSAR_Radiometric_Terrain_Corrected_high_res; Includes Material Jaxa/METI 2024, obtained and publicly available at https://search.asf.alaska.edu/#/. All other information generated by the Field Museum.
File: RI_32_C1_Amuku_eDNA2.pdf
Description: A map of environmental DNA sampling sites at Camp Amuku, with a digital elevation model as the base map. Source of DEM: ASF DAAC 2010_2011, ALOS PALSAR_Radiometric_Terrain_Corrected_high_res; Includes Material Jaxa/METI 2024, obtained and publicly available at https://search.asf.alaska.edu/#/. All other information generated by the Field Museum.
File: RI_32_C2_MonkeyJump_eDNA2.pdf
Description: A map of environmental DNA sampling sites at Camp Monkey Jump, with a digital elevation model as the base map. Source of DEM: ASF DAAC 2010_2011, ALOS PALSAR_Radiometric_Terrain_Corrected_high_res; Includes Material Jaxa/METI 2024, obtained and publicly available at https://search.asf.alaska.edu/#/. All other information generated by the Field Museum.
File: RI_32_C3_CampNewRiver_eDNA.pdf
Description: A map of environmental DNA sampling sites at Camp New River, with a digital elevation model as the base map. Source of DEM: ASF DAAC 2010_2011, ALOS PALSAR_Radiometric_Terrain_Corrected_high_res; Includes Material Jaxa/METI 2024, obtained and publicly available at https://search.asf.alaska.edu/#/. All other information generated by the Field Museum.
File: ACC_FishTeam_Map.pdf
Description: A map of fish sampling stations at the three campsites in the Acarai-Corentyne Corridor during the 2024 rapid inventory (blue), as well as fish sampling stations sampled in a separate 2007 expedition by Philip Willink et al. (magenta), with a digital elevation model as the base map. Source of DEM: ASF DAAC 2010_2011, ALOS PALSAR_Radiometric_Terrain_Corrected_high_res; Includes Material Jaxa/METI 2024, obtained and publicly available at https://search.asf.alaska.edu/#/.
File: Birds_RI_32_C2_MonkeyJump.jpg
Description: A map of bird audio recorder stations at Camp Monkey Jump, with a digital elevation model as the base map. Source of DEM: ASF DAAC 2010_2011, ALOS PALSAR_Radiometric_Terrain_Corrected_high_res; Includes Material Jaxa/METI 2024, obtained and publicly available at https://search.asf.alaska.edu/#/. All other information generated by the Field Museum.
File: Birds_RI_32_C3_CampNewRiver.jpg
Description: A map of bird audio recorder stations at Camp New River, with a digital elevation model as the base map. Source of DEM: ASF DAAC 2010_2011, ALOS PALSAR_Radiometric_Terrain_Corrected_high_res; Includes Material Jaxa/METI 2024, obtained and publicly available at https://search.asf.alaska.edu/#/. All other information generated by the Field Museum.
File: Birds_RI_32_C1_Amuku.jpg
Description: A map of bird audio recorder stations at Camp Amuku, with a digital elevation model as the base map. Source of DEM: ASF DAAC 2010_2011, ALOS PALSAR_Radiometric_Terrain_Corrected_high_res; Includes Material Jaxa/METI 2024, obtained and publicly available at https://search.asf.alaska.edu/#/. All other information generated by the Field Museum.