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A Collection of different species of small mammals in Arabuko-Sokoke Forest and adjacent farmlands in Gede, Kilifi County, Kenya
Simon
Musila
National Museums of Kenya
Head of Section - Mammalogy
P.O.Box 40658
Nairobi
Nairobi
00100
KE
surnbirds@gmail.com
http://www.museums.or.ke
Robert
Syingi
National Museums of Kenya
Research Intern
P.O.Box 40658
Nairobi
Nairobi
00100
KE
robertsyingi@gmail.com
Aziza
Zuhura
National Museums of Kenya
Research Technician
P.O.Box 40658
Nairobi
Nairobi
00100
KE
azizazuhura@yahoo.com
http://www.museums.or.ke
Paul
Webala
Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management,Maasai Mara University
Senior Lecturer
P.O.Box 861
Narok
Rift Valley
20500
KE
paul.webala@gmail.com
Bruce
Patterson
Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History
MacArthur Curator of Mammals
60605
Chicago
Illinois
2496
US
bpatterson@fieldmuseum.org
Galen
Rathbun
Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy, California Academy of Sciences
Research Fellow
P.O. Box 202
San Francisco
California
93428
US
grathbun@gmail.com
Nathan
Gichuki
School of Biological Sciences,University of Nairobi
Professor
P.O.Box 30197
Nairobi
Nairobi
00100
KE
ngichuki@uonbi.ac.ke
Simon
Musila
National Museums of Kenya
Head of Section - Mammalogy
P.O.Box 40658
Nairobi
Nairobi
00100
KE
surnbirds@gmail.com
http://www.museums.or.ke
Esther
Mwangi
National Museums of Kenya
Research Scientist
P.O.Box 40658
Nairobi
Nairobi
00100
KE
ewmwangi@museums.or.ke
http://www.museums.or.ke
processor
Lawrence
Monda
National Museums of Kenya
ICT Manager
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Nairobi
Nairobi
00100
KE
lmonda@museums.or.ke
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publisher
2019-06-04
eng
We present data on the collections of different small mammals (mainly bats, shrews and rodents) collected from the interior of Arabuko-Sokoke Forest (ASF) and human-modified habitats (farmlands) around the forest. A total of 534 specimens have been collected in the area from 1932-2017. Some collections of 1932-1972 were collected in areas which already had the indigenous natural vegetation typical of east African coastal biome, but currently such vegetation has completely been lost and replaced with farmlands and human settlement areas, thus not suitable for supporting the coastal species like the Golden-rumped Sengi (Rhynchocyon chrysopygus). Hence, the collection data can be used to inform on the changes in the size of ASF overtime, as result of anthropogenic activities around it and how it consequently affects the distribution of species conserved in this forest.
Bats
rodents
shrews
Arabuko-Sokoke Forest
Coastal Forest
Farmlands
Gede
GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml
Specimen
GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml
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Arabuko-Sokoke Forest (ASF) and adjacent farmlands around Gede (especially from Mtsangoni, Mida, Arabuko, Gede, Watamu and Msabaha villages), Kenya
39.798
39.998
-3.197
-3.502
1932-06-06
2016-11-25
All small mammals individuals captured were identified to mainly species and very few up to genus level
order
Carnivora
Genet
order
Chiroptera
Bats
order
Macroscelidea
Sengi
order
Primate
Galago
order
Rodentia
order
Soricomorpha
Shrew
unkown
Simon
Musila
National Museums of Kenya
Head of Section - Mammalogy
P.O.Box 40658
Nairobi
Nairobi
00100
KE
surnbirds@gmail.com
http://www.museums.or.ke
Factors influencing bat community structure and temporal activity patterns in Arabuko-Sokoke Forest and adjacent human-modified habitats, Gede-Malindi, Kenya
Simon
Musila
principalInvestigator
We present data on the collections of different small mammals (mainly bats, shrews and rodents) collected from the interior of Arabuko-Sokoke Forest (ASF) and human-modified habitats (farmlands) around the forest. A total of 534 specimens have been collected in the area from 1932-2017. Some collections of 1932-1972 were collected in areas which already had the indigenous natural vegetation typical of east African coastal biome, but currently such vegetation has completely been lost and replaced with farmlands and human settlement areas, thus not suitable for supporting the coastal species like the Golden-rumped Sengi (Rhynchocyon chrysopygus). Hence, the collection data can be used to inform on the changes in the size of ASF overtime, as result of anthropogenic activities around it and how it consequently affects the distribution of species conserved in this forest.
The project was funded by British Ecological Society (Ecologists in Africa (http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/funding/ecologists-in-africa/) grant Number 4632-5670) and Sino-African Joint Research Center, CAS (SAJC201612). Bat Conservation International also provided 30 mist nets used in the survey. National Museums of Kenya allowed Simon Musila to undertake the project. We appreciate the guidance provided by Simon Kajengo as we worked at night in Gede villages and assistance in data collection by Aaron Musyoka.
This study was undertaken in and around Arabuko-Sokoke Forest (ASF). The forest is found in Gede, Kilifi County, Watamu-Kenya, about 100 km north of Mombasa city at a latitude of 3° 20’ S and longitude 39° 50’ E. The ASF is the largest continuous coastal forest in eastern Africa, which consists of three rather distinct types of broadleaved forest (“mixed forest”, “Brachystegia forest” and “Cynometra forest” (Burgess et al. 1998, Bennun and Njoroge, 1999). The area around ASF mainly comprises of human settlements and cultivated land, consisting of small individual farms here referred to as ‘farmlands’ dominated with exotic fruit trees (mostly mango Mangifera indica, cashew Anacardium occidentale, and coconut Cocos nucifera (Musila et al. 2018a,b)
This study was undertaken by many people, in the name of collectors who worked in and around Arabuko-Sokoke Forest (ASF) since 1932 to 2017. Vouchers were collected for different small mammals using different methods appropriate for each taxon, preserved in 70% ethanol, and deposited in the Mammalogy Section lab of the National Museums of Kenya. Field protocols followed guidelines recommended by the American Society of Mammalogists (Sikes and Gannon 2011). For taxonomy and common names of small mammals we follow Kingdon (2015).
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dataset
Musila S, Syingi R, Zuhura A, Webala P, Patterson B, Rathbun G, Gichuki N (2019): A Collection of different species of small mammals in Arabuko-Sokoke Forest and adjacent farmlands in Gede, Kilifi County, Kenya. v1.1. National Museums of Kenya. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.museums.or.ke/ipt/resource?r=collection_mam&v=1.1
Bennun, L.A. and P. Njoroge. 1999. Important Bird Areas in Kenya. Nature Kenya,
Nairobi.pp. 450.
Burgess, N.D., G.P. Clarke and W.A. Rodgers. 1998. Coastal forests of eastern Africa:
status, endemism patterns and their potential causes. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 64: 337-367
Kingdon J (2015). Kingdon field guide to African mammals 2nd edition. Bloomsburg publishing. London-UK.
Musila, S., R. Syingi, G. Nathan and I. Castro-Arellano. 2018a. Bat activity in the interior of Arabuko-Sokoke Forest and adjacent farmlands in Kenya. Barbastella. 11.
Musila, S., P. Prokop and G. Gichuki. 2018b. Knowledge and perceptions of, and attitudes to, bats by people living around Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, Malindi-Kenya. Anthrozoös. 31:2, 247-262.
Sikes RS, Gannon WL (2011) Guidelines of the American Society of Mammalogists for the use of wild mammals in research. J Mammal 92:235-253
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