Habitat corridors usage by wildlife in wooded patches of an agricultural landscape in New Bussa, Nigeria ...

• Main Author: Fingesi, U.I.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Abundance; Diversity index; Habitat Corridors; Nigeria; Wildlife; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8298249; https://zenodo.org/record/8298249

This study assesses the dispersal and use of corridors by wildlife in wooded patches of an ‎agricultural landscape in New Bussa. The study was undertaken to derive information on the ‎species of wildlife associated with different habitat corridors in both wet and dry seasons in the ‎area, as well as to determine their relative abundance and diversity in the area. The direct/indirect ‎method of census was used. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics ‎‎(tables), and Analysis of Variance [ANOVA] was used to test if species distribution differed ‎between habitats. The results gathered revealed that the wet season has the highest number of ‎mammal species than the dry Season. Hedgerows and fencerows have the highest number of ‎mammal’s species in both wet and dry seasons. Agama agama , Rattus rattus of Muridae and ‎ Rousettus acguptiacus of Pteropodidae family, Sciurus spermophilus , Sciurus carolinensis and ‎ Epomophorus ganbianus were found to be highly abundant in all the habitat types ...