Abundance Of Rodent On Different Land Management Intervention In Simien Mountains National Park North Ethiopia

This study deals with the abundance rodents in different land management intervention.rnOvergrazing is one of the conservation challenges of the Simien Mountains National Park .rnOvergrazing has been devastating the fragile afro-alpine Ecosystem. The objective of thisrnstudy was to identify habitat quality and abundance of rodent by recording the new rodentrnhole and the common mole rat hill between May, 2017 (wet season) and January andrnFebruary 2018 (dry season), assessed thirteen transect lines in average 2-4 km each. In morernrodents captured were investigated in six major sites (within twelve) sub sites and the gridsrnwere established within representative vegetation covers.During dry season, five species ofrnrodents Lophuromys flavopunctatus, Arvicanthis abyssinicus, Stenocephalemys grisiecauda,rnOtomys typus,Mus mahomet and one species of insectivores, Crocidiura baileyi, werernrecorded. There was significance variation in habitat quality among different landrnmanagement intervention fresh rodent holes and common mole rat hills (p

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