Diversity, Distribution and Habitat Association of Small Mammals in Ene Proposed National Park Oromia Regional State, Western Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Afework, Bezawork (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Asefa, Solomon | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-10-22T07:00:28Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-09T04:20:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-10-22T07:00:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-09T04:20:58Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-08-03 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The present study was carried out to investigate small mammal species distribution, diversity and habitat association in Ene proposed National Park, Western Ethiopia. This study was conducted during September 2018 to October 2018, the study area was observed and classified into for habitat types based on the topography and vegetation types. These were mixed woodland, woodland, riverine forest, and grassland were differentiated. Each habitat type was classified into blocks. Representative samples of rodents and insectivore were taken from each habitat type by using live trapping in all the four habitat types of small mammals. Data were collected in the morning (7:00 –8:00 hrs) and in the afternoon (17:00 –18:00 hrs). During the trapping months six rodent species and one insectivore species were recorded. The trapped rodent species were Crocidura sp, Arvicanthis niloticus, Desmomys harringtoni, x Myomys albipes,Acomys cineraceus, Mus musculus and Lemniscomys barbarus, The diversity of small mammals varied among the four different habitat types. During October, woodland habitat appeared to be a choice for most of rodent species encountered in the study period. This habitats had the highest diversity index with Shannon-Wiener Index (H’=1.66) and evenness (E=0.798). The second diversified habitat was riverine forest (H’ = 0.87) and (E=0.485).Mixed woodland habitat was the third diversified habitat (H’= 0.743) and (E=0.462). The lowest diversified habitat was the grassland habitat (H’=0 .83) and (E=0.399), During September the more diversified habitat was woodland (H’=1.31) and (E=0.632), followed by riverine forest (H’=1.015) and(E=0.63). The third diversified habitat was mixed woodland (H’=0.732) and (E=0.528) and the least diversity was observed in grassland. The most common species of rodent species in the study area were Myomys albipes and Desmomy s harringtoni . Among the four habitat type, Simpson’s similarity index showed that the highest species similarity was between woodland and riverine forest (SI=0.67) and the least species similarity was between riverine forest and mixed woodland (SI= 0.66) during October. During September, more species similarity was between grassland and riverine forest (SI=0.64) and the least species similarity was between grassland and woodland (SI= | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/19568 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Diversity | en_US |
| dc.subject | Distribution | en_US |
| dc.subject | Habitat Association | en_US |
| dc.subject | Small Mammals | en_US |
| dc.subject | Proposed National Park Oromia Regional State | en_US |
| dc.subject | Western Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.title | Diversity, Distribution and Habitat Association of Small Mammals in Ene Proposed National Park Oromia Regional State, Western Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |