Chorongo
Basic information
Sample name: Chorongo

Sample aka: Tiputini Biodiversity Station

Reference: J. G. Blake, D. Mosquera, J. Guerra, B. A. Loiselle, D. Romo, and K. Swing. 2011. Mineral licks as diversity hotspots in lowland forest of eastern Ecuador. Diversity 3(2):217-234 [ER 1714]
Geography
Country: Ecuador

State: Orellana

Coordinate: 1° 38' 4" S, 76° 9' 53" W
Latlng basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "within the ~1.7-million ha Yasuní Biosphere Reserve"
elevation 190 to 270 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Protection: biosphere reserve

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 25.0

MAP: 2860.0

Habitat comments: "undisturbed lowland rainforest" and specifically "terra firme forest"
climate data are for the Tiputini Biodiversity Station and are from Renninger and Phillips (2011, Oecologia)

Methods
Life forms: carnivores, primates, rodents, ungulates, other large mammals, other small mammals, birds

Sampling methods: no design, automatic cameras

Sample size: 1598 captures or sightings

Nets or traps: 2

Net or trap nights: 1214

Camera type: both

Cameras paired: no

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "We used both digital (Snapshot Sniper, LLC) and film-based (Highlander PhotoscoutTM, PTC Technologies) camera traps triggered by an infrared motion-and-heat detector"
dates of field work and number of cameras are not indicated, but it is presumed that only two cameras deployed because the site is a single salt lick

Metadata
Sample no: 1911

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-10 21:16:05

Modified: 2018-06-30 11:25:58

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
21 species
6 singletons
total count 1598
geometric series index: 32.8
Fisher's α: 3.414
geometric series k: 0.7361
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8129
Shannon's H: 1.9246
Good's u: 0.9962
Register
Leucopternis melanops 1312.0 g
Penelope jacquacu 31.6 kg
Pipile pipile 458
Mitu salvini 123.1 kg
Psophia crepitans 21.0 kg
Columba plumbea 43
Ara macao 11.0 kg
Didelphis marsupialis 81.0 kg
Dasypus novemcinctus 134.4 kg
Ateles belzebuth 1
Nasua nasua (South American coati)14.4 kg
Leopardus pardalis (ocelot)18.4 kg
Tapirus terrestris (Brazilian tapir)305198.0 kg
Dicotyles tajacu (collared peccary)85
"Pecari tajacu"
Tayassu pecari (white-lipped peccary)629.0 kg
Mazama americana (red brocket)34726.0 kg
Sciurus igniventris 1
Cuniculus paca 183
Dasyprocta fuliginosa 1054.9 kg
Myoprocta pratti 16600.0 g
Proechimys spp. 6