Large Mammal Diversity in Nensebo Forest, Southern Ethiopia
Table 3
Relative abundance and mean abundance of large wild mammals among different habitat types of Nensebo forest, Southern Ethiopia.
NENSEBO
Mean number of individuals observed in different habitat types
Total animals observed
Relative abundance (in %)
Species
Moist Afromontane forest
Modified moist Afromontane forest
Wet
Dry
Wet
Dry
C. guereza
141
87
43
59
330 ± 7
38
P. anubis
85
72
27
40
224 ± 5
24
P. africanus
64
30
11
9
114 ± 5
12
C. crocuta
40
16
5
1
62 ± 3
6.7
P. larvatus
31
10
8
3
52 ± 4
5
H. meinertzhageni
23
14
6
2
35 ± 4
3.8
H. cristata
10
9
0
0
19 ± 1
2
T. s. meneliki
6
3
1
0
10 ± 0
1
P. pardus
9
2
0
0
11 ± 1
1.1
S. grimmia
5
4
0
0
9 ± 1
0.9
O. afer
4
3
0
0
7 ± 0
0.7
C. civetta
3
0
0
0
3 ± 0
0.3
C. aureus
2
1
0
0
3 ± 1
0.3
F. serval
1
0
0
0
1 ± 0
0.1
P. leo
1
0
0
0
1 ± 0
0.1
T. buxtoni
1
0
0
0
1 ± 0
0.1
Total (16)
440 ± 13
262 ± 9
104 ± 6
114 ± 4
920 ± 21
100%
Diversity indices: the highest large mammals Simpson’s (1-D) and Shannon-Weaver index of diversity was obtained in the intact moist Afromontane forest habitat (D = 5.434, H′ = 2.188), and the modified moist Afromontane forest habitat had the lowest diversity (D = 3.095, H′ = 1.373) (Table 4).
