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Medium and large mammals in an Andean National Park in southwestern Colombia

  • Laura Maria Barajas-Rebolledo ORCID logo , Edwar Guarín ORCID logo , Néstor Roncancio Duque ORCID logo und Héctor E. Ramírez-Chaves ORCID logo EMAIL logo
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 8. März 2024
Mammalia
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Abstract

The Complejo Volcánico Doña Juana – Cascabel National Natural Park is located between the departments of Cauca and Nariño in the southern Andean Region of Colombia. Due to the country’s social challenges and the difficult access to the Doña Juana – Cascabel National Natural Park the biological knowledge concerning groups such as mammals, is based on studies prior to the park’s declaration, reports from park rangers and residents. Between October 2017 and February 2018, eight trail cameras were set up in the Doña Juana – Cascabel National Natural Park and its buffer zone. We reviewed the information captured in these cameras and identified eight mammal species, three of which are new reports for the park. In total, 24 species were reported, including charismatic Andean species such as the spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus), and the Andean tapir (Tapirus pinchaque). The mammal diversity documented for the park is low (24 species) compared to other Andean areas. Further field work is necessary to complete the species inventories. Nevertheless, this research, to our knowledge is the first effort to study the medium and large mammals of the Doña Juana – Cascabel National Natural Park since its establishment in 2008.

Keywords: Andes; inventory; mammalia; trail camera; threatened category
Corresponding author: Héctor E. Ramírez-Chaves, Grupo de Investigación en Genética, Biodiversidad y Manejo de Ecosistemas, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Caldas, Caldas, Colombia; and Centro de Museos, Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia, E-mail:

Acknowledgments

We thank the staff of Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia for their help and for providing us with the necessary information for this work. This work is part of LMBR’s bachelor’s in biology work, who thanks her family and friends for their support during the development of this work.

  1. Research ethics: All procedures were in accordance with the national laws, and no illegal human activity or human individuals were photographed during the study.

  2. Author contributions: EG: Data collection and database filling. NRD, HERC: Idea, formulation. All authors analyzed data, wrote the paper, and approved the final version for submission.

  3. Competing interests: The authors state no conflict of interest.

  4. Research funding: HERC thanks Fulbright Colombia: Investigador Visitante Colombiano cohort 2023 for a scholarship.

  5. Data availability: The raw data can be obtained on request from the corresponding author.

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Received: 2023-09-05
Accepted: 2024-01-09
Published Online: 2024-03-08
Published in Print: 2024-05-27

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Andes; inventory; mammalia; trail camera; threatened category

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  1. Frontmatter
  2. Biogeography
  3. Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist
  4. New records of Histiotus montanus and Neoeptesicus ulapesensis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in Argentina
  5. Filling the gap of distribution of the pale-winged dog-like bat Peropteryx pallidoptera (Chiroptera, Emballonuridae) in Brazil and Peru
  6. First record of Peropteryx leucoptera (Chiroptera, Emballonuridae) for the Caatinga of Northeastern Brazil and additional records for the Amazon and Atlantic Rainforest
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