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

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)879.8 kg
Caracal caracal (caracal)5
Atilax paludinosus 212.8 kg
Crossarchus obscurus 61000.0 g
Ichneumia albicauda 683.4 kg
Mungos gambianus 17
Nandinia binotata 22.7 kg
Civettictis civetta 118
Genetta maculata 531.7 kg
Genetta thierryi 1
Alcelaphus buselaphus major (hartebeest)27
Cephalophus rufilatus (red-flanked duiker)3812.0 kg
Kobus ellipsiprymnus defassa (waterbuck)168210.0 kg
Kobus kob (kob)29077.0 kg
Syncerus caffer (African buffalo)2548.0 kg
Tragelaphus scriptus (harnessed bushbuck)21731.0 kg
Philantomba walteri (Walter's duiker)2
Phacochoerus africanus (common warthog)1182.0 kg
Potamochoerus porcus (red river hog)1266.0 kg
Lepus victoriae 3
Chlorocebus tantalus (vervet monkey)57
Erythrocebus patas (patas monkey)377
Papio anubis (olive baboon)8118.0 kg
Loxodonta africana (African bush elephant)672731.0 kg
"Loxodonta africana africana": plus 12 indeterminate Loxodonta captures
Loxodonta cyclotis (African forest elephant)1161419.0 kg
"Loxodonta africana cyclotis"
Atherurus africanus 1253.2 kg
Hystrix cristata 10312.0 kg
Cricetomys gambianus 141.4 kg
Heliosciurus rufobrachium 4363.0 g
Thryonomys swinderianus 175.2 kg
Orycteropus afer (aardvark)1240.0 kg
Bos taurus (cow)172
Canis lupus familiaris (gray wolf)1943.0 kg
"Canis familiaris"
Homo sapiens (human)1764.0 kg