Fazao-Malfakassa National Park (wet season)
Basic information
Sample name: Fazao-Malfakassa National Park (wet 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

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 1233 captures or sightings

Years: 2019

Seasons: wet or monsoon

Nets or traps: 100

Net or trap nights: 4576

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: 3833

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2021-08-02 16:13:44

Modified: 2021-08-02 06:16:14

Abundance distribution
26 species
1 singleton
total count 1233
geometric series index: 30.3
Fisher's α: 4.657
geometric series k: 0.7927
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8715
Shannon's H: 2.4591
Good's u: 0.9992
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Canis adustus109.8 kg carnivore
Atilax paludinosus42.8 kg invertivore-carnivore
Ichneumia albicauda373.4 kg invertivore-carnivore
Mungos gambianus3
Civettictis civetta914 kg frugivore-insectivore
Genetta maculata41.7 kg
Alcelaphus buselaphus major13143 kg grazer-browser
Cephalophus rufilatus5812 kg
Kobus ellipsiprymnus defassa21210 kg grazer-browser
Kobus kob11477 kg grazer
Sylvicapra grimmia3413 kg browser-grazer
Syncerus caffer4548 kg grazer-browser
Tragelaphus scriptus33331 kg browser-grazer
Phacochoerus africanus1382 kg grazer-browser
Potamochoerus porcus166 kg
Chlorocebus tantalus12
Erythrocebus patas55
Papio anubis4818 kg browser-grazer
Loxodonta africana102731 kg browser-grazer
"Loxodonta africana africana": plus 13 indeterminate Loxodonta captures
Loxodonta cyclotis411419 kg browser
"Loxodonta africana cyclotis"
Atherurus africanus953.2 kg frugivore
Hystrix cristata18512 kg
Cricetomys gambianus41.4 kg frugivore-granivore
Thryonomys swinderianus35.2 kg
Orycteropus afer440 kg insectivore
Bos taurus118337 kg