Algar
Basic information
Sample name: Algar
Reference: E. R. Tattersall, J. M. Burgar, J. T. Fisher, and A. C. Burton. 2020. Mammal seismic line use varies with restoration: Applying habitat restoration to species at risk conservation in a working landscape. Biological Conservation 241:108295 [ER 3462]
Geography
Country: Canada
State: Alberta
Coordinate: 56.258801° N, -112.690903° W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "The study took place in the Algar sub-range of the East Side Athabasca River (ESAR) caribou range, approximately 70 km southwest of Fort McMurray, Alberta"
Environment
Habitat: boreal forest/taiga
Altered habitat: disturbed forest
Protection: unprotected
Substrate: ground surface
Disturbance: selective logging
Habitat comments: "The 570 km2 area is within the western sedimentary basin of the Canadian boreal forest, and contains vegetation cover broadly typical of this region: lowland habitat of mature black spruce and tamarack wetlands, with upland habitat of aspen, white spruce, and jack pine"
"Anthropogenic features were almost exclusively legacy seismic, with a total of 524 km of seismic lines and a linear feature density of 1.1 km/km2"
"Anthropogenic features were almost exclusively legacy seismic, with a total of 524 km of seismic lines and a linear feature density of 1.1 km/km2"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals
Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras
Sample size: 3054 captures or sightings
Years: 2015 - 2018
Nets or traps: 60
Net or trap nights: 43361
Camera type: digital
Cameras paired: no
Sampling comments: "We randomly selected line segments ... for camera trap sampling locations, deploying a total of 60 Reconyx HyperFire PC900 camera traps (Reconyx, Holman, WI)"
"Camera trap data were collected between November 2015 and November 2018"
"We set each camera trap on a tree at the edge of a seismic line, facing across the line, at a height of approximately 1 m"
"We set up cameras at least 500 m apart to increase the probability of independent detections; in some cases, line segment proximity resulted in cameras ... being less than 500 m apart (minimum distance 338 m)"
"Cameras were programmed to take one image per trigger, with a one second lag between triggers, no quiet periods, and one daily ‘time-lapse’ image at noon to test camera function and record background conditions"
"Camera trap data were collected between November 2015 and November 2018"
"We set each camera trap on a tree at the edge of a seismic line, facing across the line, at a height of approximately 1 m"
"We set up cameras at least 500 m apart to increase the probability of independent detections; in some cases, line segment proximity resulted in cameras ... being less than 500 m apart (minimum distance 338 m)"
"Cameras were programmed to take one image per trigger, with a one second lag between triggers, no quiet periods, and one daily ‘time-lapse’ image at noon to test camera function and record background conditions"
Metadata
Sample number: 3818
Contributor: Benjamin Carter
Enterer: Benjamin Carter
Created: 2021-06-16 12:23:54
Modified: 2021-06-16 02:23:54
Abundance distribution
16 species
1 singleton
total count 3054
geometric series index: 19.4
Fisher's α: 2.213
geometric series k: 0.6386
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8447
Shannon's H: 2.0623
Good's u: 0.9997
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