Acambuco
Basic information
Sample name: Acambuco
Reference: M. S. Di Bitetti, S. A. Albanesi, M. J. Foguet, C. De Angelo, and A. D. Brown. 2013. The effect of anthropic pressures and elevation on the large and medium-sized terrestrial mammals of the subtropical mountain forests (Yungas) of NW Argentina. Mammalian Biology 78(1):21-27 [ER 1734]
Geography
Country: Argentina
State: Salta
Coordinate: 22° 10' 51" S, 64° 55' 40" W
Latlng basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "centered in the small (70 families) rural community of Acambuco... and the Acambuco Provincial Reserve"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Protection: other protected area
Substrate: ground surface
Disturbance: agriculture, grazing, hunting
MAT: 22.0
MAP: 1200.0
Habitat comments: "Premontane Forest (Selva Pedemontana) and Montane Humid Forest (Selva Montana)... Local people practice extractive activities (including hunting), practice agriculture, and raise cattle within the Acambuco Reserve"
climate data are for Yacuiba and are from Lardeaux et al. (2008, Malaria Journal)
climate data are for Yacuiba and are from Lardeaux et al. (2008, Malaria Journal)
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, rodents, ungulates, other large mammals, other small mammals
Sampling methods: line transect, automatic cameras
Sample size: 350 captures or sightings
Years: 2010
Nets or traps: 24
Net or trap nights: 1316
Camera type: digital
Cameras paired: no
Trap spacing: 2.09
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "We conducted a camera-trap survey between September 23 and November 18, 2010. We deployed 24 camera-trap stations, each with a digital camera-trap unit (Moultrie M-40)... Camera-trap stations were located along the main dirt road which extends north and south of the locality of Acambuco... The mean distance from a camera-trap station to its nearest one was 2.09" km
Metadata
Sample no: 1933
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2016-01-14 17:41:03
Modified: 2020-01-14 07:30:52
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
20 species
2 singletons
total count 350
geometric series index: 27.7
Fisher's α: 4.604
geometric series k: 0.7984
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8583
Shannon's H: 2.254
Good's u: 0.9943
Register
| Thylamys sp. | 1 | |
| Euphractus sexcinctus | 3 | 4.7 kg |
| Euryoryzomys legatus | 2 | |
| Dasyprocta punctata | 12 | 2.7 kg |
| Sylvilagus brasiliensis | 72 | |
| Equus africanus asinus (African wild ass) | 4 | |
| "Equus asinus" | ||
| Equus ferus caballus (wild horse) | 3 | |
| "Equus caballus" | ||
| Tapirus terrestris (Brazilian tapir) | 2 | 198.0 kg |
| Bos taurus (cow) | 62 | |
| Mazama gouazoubira (gray brocket) | 22 | 14.0 kg |
| Dicotyles tajacu (collared peccary) | 5 | |
| "Pecari tajacu" | ||
| Sus scrofa (pig) | 14 | |
| Puma concolor (cougar) | 1 | |
| Herpailurus yagouaroundi (jaguarundi) | 4 | |
| "Puma yagouaroundi" | ||
| Leopardus pardalis (ocelot) | 9 | 8.4 kg |
| Leopardus wiedii (margay) | 5 | 2.6 kg |
| Canis lupus familiaris (gray wolf) | 7 | 43.0 kg |
| "Canis lupus" | ||
| Cerdocyon thous (crab-eating fox) | 57 | 5.2 kg |
| Nasua nasua (South American coati) | 2 | 4.4 kg |
| Eira barbara (tayra) | 63 | 4.3 kg |