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: 8° 40' N, 0° 43' E
Coordinate 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

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 number: 3832

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2021-08-02 16:06:22

Modified: 2021-08-02 06:12:57

Abundance distribution
34 species
1 singleton
total count 2329
geometric series index: 38.9
Fisher's α: 5.643
geometric series k: 0.8355
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9228
Shannon's H: 2.8627
Good's u: 0.9996
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Canis adustus879.8 kg carnivore
Caracal caracal512 kg carnivore
Atilax paludinosus212.8 kg invertivore-carnivore
Crossarchus obscurus61000 g
Ichneumia albicauda683.4 kg invertivore-carnivore
Mungos gambianus17
Nandinia binotata22.7 kg frugivore-invertivore
Civettictis civetta11814 kg frugivore-insectivore
Genetta maculata531.7 kg
Genetta thierryi1
Alcelaphus buselaphus major27143 kg grazer-browser
Cephalophus rufilatus3812 kg
Kobus ellipsiprymnus defassa168210 kg grazer-browser
Kobus kob29077 kg grazer
Syncerus caffer2548 kg grazer-browser
Tragelaphus scriptus21731 kg browser-grazer
Philantomba walteri2
Phacochoerus africanus1182 kg grazer-browser
Potamochoerus porcus1266 kg
Lepus victoriae3
Chlorocebus tantalus57
Erythrocebus patas377
Papio anubis8118 kg browser-grazer
Loxodonta africana672731 kg browser-grazer
"Loxodonta africana africana": plus 12 indeterminate Loxodonta captures
Loxodonta cyclotis1161419 kg browser
"Loxodonta africana cyclotis"
Atherurus africanus1253.2 kg frugivore
Hystrix cristata10312 kg
Cricetomys gambianus141.4 kg frugivore-granivore
Heliosciurus rufobrachium4363 g frugivore
Thryonomys swinderianus175.2 kg
Orycteropus afer1240 kg insectivore
Bos taurus172337 kg
Canis lupus familiaris1943 kg carnivore
"Canis familiaris"
Homo sapiens1764 kg