Rocky River
Basic information
Sample name: Rocky River

Reference: D. Muñoz, J. Kapfer, and C. Olfenbuttel. 2014. Do available products to mask human scent influence camera trap survey results?. Wildlife Biology 20(4):246-252 [ER 1725]
Geography
Country: United States

State: North Carolina

County: Chatham

Coordinate: 35.7° N, -79.27° W
Latlng basis: based on political unit

Geography comments: "16.2 ha of privately owned land"
coordinate is based on Chatham County

Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 16.0

MAP: 1010.0

Habitat comments: "oak–hickory forest... mostly uninhabited with only scattered agriculture close by"
climate data are for the Duke Forest and are from Caldwell (1969, Am Midl Nat)

Methods
Life forms: carnivores, rodents, ungulates, other small mammals

Site area: 12.9

Sampling methods: no design, automatic cameras

Sample size: 3354 captures or sightings

Years: 2011, 2012

Days: 210

Nets or traps: 8

Net or trap nights: 0

Camera type: unclear

Cameras paired: no

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "We randomly applied one of two treatments, ‘scent unmasked’ or ‘scent masked’ , to each of the eight cameras... Camera traps were placed semi-randomly" within the site; the study "ran from September 2011 to the beginning of March 2012, with each camera simultaneously in operation for 210 trap-nights"

Metadata
Sample no: 1923

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-13 20:50:47

Modified: 2016-12-14 10:40:56

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
10 species
1 singleton
total count 3354
geometric series index: 12.8
Fisher's α: 1.269
geometric series k: 0.4819
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6895
Shannon's H: 1.302
Good's u: 0.9997
Register
Canis latrans (coyote)912.0 kg
Castor canadensis 311.0 kg
Didelphis virginiana 2511.0 kg
Lynx rufus (bobcat)1
Mephitis mephitis (striped skunk)2
Odocoileus virginianus (white-tailed deer)971
Procyon lotor (raccoon)6685.5 kg
Sciurus carolinensis 1428519.0 g
Sylvilagus floridanus 161.1 kg
Urocyon cinereoargenteus (gray fox)54.1 kg