Waterberg Escarpment
Basic information
Sample name: Waterberg Escarpment

Reference: A. B. Stein, T. K. Fuller, and L. L. Marker. 2008. Opportunistic use of camera traps to assess habitat-specific mammal and bird diversity in northcentral Namibia. Biodiversity and Conservation 17(14):3579-3587 [ER 1705]
Geography
Country: Namibia


Coordinate: -20.46133° S, 17.20812° E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: grazing,hunting

MAT: 21.0

WMT: 24.0

CMT: 16.0

MAP: 532.0

Habitat comments: "The farmlands surrounding the Park are mostly managed for livestock production and also support populations of wildlife for game farming, trophy hunting, and conservation... The area is dominated by Acacia mellifera and Dichrostachys cinerea bush, characterized as the thornveld biome"
climate data are for Grootfontein and are from Mileusnic et al. (2014, Journal of Geochemical Exploration)

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

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 388 captures or sightings

Years: 2006

Nets or traps: 4

Net or trap nights: 201

Camera type: analog

Cameras paired: yes

Trap spacing: 5.4

Sampling comments: four "motion-sensor camera stations" were positioned "between June and October 2006... Each station consisted of two motion-sensor cameras secured to trees at a height of 60 cm, pointing towards the path, but offset from each other at >0.5 m... The minimum distance between nearest stations was 3.0 km and the maximum distance was 7.8 km"

Metadata
Sample number: 1898

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-09 19:54:29

Modified: 2016-12-14 21:56:29

Abundance distribution
41 species
16 singletons
total count 388
geometric series index: 80.2
Fisher's α: 11.578
geometric series k: 0.9023
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9329
Shannon's H: 3.0366
Good's u: 0.9588
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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