| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1988 |
| Authors: | C. A. Spinage |
| Journal: | Afr. J. Ecol. |
| Volume: | 26 |
| Pagination: | 73-88 |
| Date Published: | 1988 |
| Keywords: | Amphibia, Central Africa, Chaerephon ansorgei, Chaerephon nigeriae, Chiroptera, Coleura afra, Emballonuridae, Epomophorus gambianus, Hipposideridae, Hipposideros abae, Hipposideros cyclops, Hipposideros ruber centralis, Lavia frons affinis, Mammalia, Megadermatidae, Micropteropus pusillus, Molossidae, Mops congicus [M. trevori], Myonycteris torquata, Neoromicia guineensis, Neoromicia nanus, Neoromicia somalicus, Nycteridae, Nycteris hispida, Nycticeinops schlieffenii, Otomops martiensseni, plants, protected areas, Pteropodidae, Reptilia, Rhinolophidae, Rhinolophus fumigatus, Rhinolophus landeri, Scotophilus dinganii, Scotophilus nigritellus [viridis], Taphozous mauritianus, Vegetation, Vespertilionidae |
| Abstract: | A description is given of the 11,560 km2 Bamingui-Bangoran National Park situated in the mid-Sudanian phytogeographic domain of the Central African Republic. Attention is drawn to the interest of the ecology of this little-known zone, which lies between north-south and east-west ecotones, of the sahel-tropical forest and oriental region west Africa, respectively. Preliminary collections of plants and small mammals were made. An analysis of the flora and the large mammals observed suggests a predominantly West African affinity. The sub-specific endemism shown by the large mammals appears more probably linked to Pleistocene isolation by the Chari-Logone river system, than to a mega Lake Chad as has been postulated elsewhere. |
| URL: | Spinage 1988.pdf http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1988.tb00959.x |