Fazao-Malfakassa National Park (dry season)
Basic information
Sample name: Fazao-Malfakassa National Park (dry season)
Reference: D. Assou, N. D'Cruze, H. Kirkland, M. Auliya, D. W. Macdonald, and G. H. Segniagbeto. 2021. Camera trap survey of mammals in the Fazao-Malfakassa National Park, Togo, West Africa. African Journal of Ecology x:1-14 [ER 3651]
Geography
Country: Togo
Coordinate: 9° 40' N, 1° 43' E
Latlng basis: stated in text
Geography comments: elevation 300 to 800 m
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Protection: national/state park
Substrate: ground surface
MAP: 1350.0
Habitat comments: "dense semi-deciduous forests and scattered savannah woodland... Annual rainfall ranges between 1, 200 and 1, 500 mm, with most rainfall between April and October... Dry season mean temperature is approx. 27.5ºC, while mean temperature in the wet season is 25ºC"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, primates, rodents, ungulates, other large mammals, other small mammals
Sampling methods: no design, automatic cameras
Sample size: 2329 captures or sightings
Years: 2019
Seasons: dry
Nets or traps: 100
Net or trap nights: 4431
Camera type: digital
Cameras paired: no
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "This study was carried out during the dry season (09 February to 13 April 2019) and the beginning of the wet season (03 April to 22 June 2019) for approximately five months at six sites... A total of 100 camera traps (50 Cuddeback Ambush IR 1, 187 and 50 Cuddeback Professional Color, Model 1, 347 camera traps) were installed where mammal trails or traces were found... Cameras were set up to an approximate height ranging from 40 to 90 cm above ground... To ensure that the camera events were independent, photographs of the same species captured within 30 min of each other by the same camera were treated as a single event"
text says there were "9, 007 camera days (4, 431 in the wet season and 4, 576 in the dry season)" but the latter two numbers are definitely reversed based on the actual RAI data
text says there were "9, 007 camera days (4, 431 in the wet season and 4, 576 in the dry season)" but the latter two numbers are definitely reversed based on the actual RAI data
Metadata
Sample no: 3832
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2021-08-02 16:06:22
Modified: 2021-08-02 06:12:57
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
34 species
1 singleton
total count 2329
geometric series index: 38.9
Fisher's α: 5.643
geometric series k: 0.8532
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9228
Shannon's H: 2.8627
Good's u: 0.9996
Register
| Canis adustus (side-striped jackal) | 87 | 9.8 kg |
| Caracal caracal (caracal) | 5 | |
| Atilax paludinosus | 21 | 2.8 kg |
| Crossarchus obscurus | 6 | 1000.0 g |
| Ichneumia albicauda | 68 | 3.4 kg |
| Mungos gambianus | 17 | |
| Nandinia binotata | 2 | 2.7 kg |
| Civettictis civetta | 118 | |
| Genetta maculata | 53 | 1.7 kg |
| Genetta thierryi | 1 | |
| Alcelaphus buselaphus major (hartebeest) | 27 | |
| Cephalophus rufilatus (red-flanked duiker) | 38 | 12.0 kg |
| Kobus ellipsiprymnus defassa (waterbuck) | 168 | 210.0 kg |
| Kobus kob (kob) | 290 | 77.0 kg |
| Syncerus caffer (African buffalo) | 2 | 548.0 kg |
| Tragelaphus scriptus (harnessed bushbuck) | 217 | 31.0 kg |
| Philantomba walteri (Walter's duiker) | 2 | |
| Phacochoerus africanus (common warthog) | 11 | 82.0 kg |
| Potamochoerus porcus (red river hog) | 12 | 66.0 kg |
| Lepus victoriae | 3 | |
| Chlorocebus tantalus (vervet monkey) | 57 | |
| Erythrocebus patas (patas monkey) | 377 | |
| Papio anubis (olive baboon) | 81 | 18.0 kg |
| Loxodonta africana (African bush elephant) | 67 | 2731.0 kg |
| "Loxodonta africana africana": plus 12 indeterminate Loxodonta captures | ||
| Loxodonta cyclotis (African forest elephant) | 116 | 1419.0 kg |
| "Loxodonta africana cyclotis" | ||
| Atherurus africanus | 125 | 3.2 kg |
| Hystrix cristata | 103 | 12.0 kg |
| Cricetomys gambianus | 14 | 1.4 kg |
| Heliosciurus rufobrachium | 4 | 363.0 g |
| Thryonomys swinderianus | 17 | 5.2 kg |
| Orycteropus afer (aardvark) | 12 | 40.0 kg |
| Bos taurus (cow) | 172 | |
| Canis lupus familiaris (gray wolf) | 19 | 43.0 kg |
| "Canis familiaris" | ||
| Homo sapiens (human) | 17 | 64.0 kg |