Inventario de fauna en el Campus Salache, Cantón Latacunga, provincia de Cotopaxi

This investigation Project was made in Salache campus, belong to the Technical University in order to know the species of fauna found in the area, to translate it into a descriptive photographic guide. For this, a diagnosis of the study area was carried out, determining the characteristics of the place, obtaining three zones according to its geographical location, zone one (farm house), has a division of the other two zones since the main access road is located and it has several buildings and natural areas, zone two (crops) which is an area that has several seasonal crops, as well as the areas of the pastures where cattle are found, as well as alpacas, finally there is zone three (stage ) away from the intervened areas with a remnant of vegetation according to the ecosystem in the upper part of it; these areas have been anthropogenically intervened at different levels and types of use. In each of them, the application of different methods and techniques for the registration of fauna species was carried out, such as intensive search for birds, mammals and reptiles, fall traps for amphibians, homemade traps for fish; from which a total of 15 species of birds, 2 of reptiles, were obtained, without having results for fish, amphibians and mammals. Of the birds, the Tyrannidae family is the most abundant, with species such as Pyrocephalus obscurus, Myiotheretes striaticollis, Phrygilus unicolor, among the main ones. By applying the Sorensen index it was possible to verify the similarity of species that coexist between the study areas, obtaining 81.48% between zone one and two, while 25% between zone one and three, finally 42.10% between zone two and three. On the other hand, of the total species found, 99% are in a state of conservation of least concern (LC) and 1% are not evaluated (NE), thus obtaining an important step for the development of the local population, since the lack of information is not enough, motivating future researchers to focus on the study of flora and fauna on campus. This research will serve as reference and reference material on the existing fauna in the selected study place, for future generations in the tourism career as well as the public interested in the study of fauna.

• Main Author: Guamán Amaguaña, Ericka Natali (author)
• Format: bachelorThesis
• Language: spa
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: INVENTARIO DE FAUNA; CAMPUS SALACHE; ÁREA DE ESTUDIO; ECOTURISMO
• Online Access: http://repositorio.utc.edu.ec/handle/27000/7801