Conservation grounded in traditional ecological knowledge, culture, and hunting

The data are used for the accepted manuscript: \"Conservation grounded in traditional ecological knowledge, culture, and hunting\". The data that support the findings of this study are openly available.
In Guangxi, China, Yao people (an indigenous people) employ a unique “bird-basin” hunting practice during the migratory season in Dayao mountains. To assess the impact of forest utilization practices on bird diversity, this study compares the bird diversity in the hunting grounds of the Yao people with that in old-growth forests and in firewood forests.
We found a significantly higher level of bird species richness in the hunting grounds than in the old-growth forests and the firewood forests. Functional diversity and phylogenetic diversity were similar in the old-growth forests and hunting grounds, and were lowest in the firewood forests. Most of the birds captured by bird-basins were migratory species with a small body size.
“Bird-basin” hunting could be an effective way of resolvin..., We sampled the bird community using point counts: The first Table, named 'point counting data' in the 'raw_data.xlsx' file, is used for calculating the bird diversity for the three types of forest, i.e., hunting grounds (HG), old-growth forests (OG), and the firewood forests (FF). Unlimited radius point counts were performed to survey birds in 2007 and 2008 during the peak period of bird activity, between sunrise and 3.5 h past sunrise, with 10 min duration. The points were located at least 150 m apart. Twenty-one points were surveyed in each type of forest. A total of 63 points were selected, and 310 points counts were conducted.
Vegetation surveys were conducted to determine whether bird distributions were correlated with vegetation structure. The second Table, named 'Vegetation Cover and Fruit Tree', is used for calculating the land use by local Yao people through vegetation surveys. The surveys consisted of 13 plots within a 10-m radius for each habitat type in the same ar..., # Conservation grounded in traditional ecological knowledge, culture, and hunting

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.612jm64k5](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.612jm64k5)

## Description of the data and file structure

We sampled bird community using point counts in Dayao Mountains in 2007 and 2008 during the peak period. All points were selected within the three forest types, i.e., old-growth forest (OF), hunting ground (HG), and firewood forest (FF). Except for five points in the reserve that were not visited during the breeding season in 2008 as a result of a broken trail, each point was visited five times: twice in the breeding season from March to April, twice in the nonbreeding season from November to December in 2007 and 2008, and once before the migration season in September 2008. A total of 63 points were selected and 310 points counts were conducted.

Bird hunting was also surveyed in six families during the migration season, from October to November 2008. The six families hunted for ...,