Kangaroo Valley (low cattle disturbance)
Basic information
Sample name: Kangaroo Valley (low cattle disturbance)

Reference: P. Borchard and I. A. Wright. 2010. Using camera-trap data to model habitat use by bare-nosed wombats (Vombatus ursinus) and cattle (Bos taurus) in a south-eastern Australian agricultural riparian ecosystem. Australian Mammalogy 32(1):16-22 [ER 1709]
Geography
Country: Australia

State: New South Wales


Coordinate: 34° 44' S, 150° 32' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: coordinate is based on Kangaroo Valley

Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: grazing

WMT: 21.1

CMT: 11.0

MAP: 1110.0

Habitat comments: "extensively cleared for dairy farming in the mid to late 1800s... Remnant ribbons of native Eastern Riverine Forest still occur... The low-cattle-impact sites (Category 1) were recognised as follows: impact restricted to tracks, tracks used only intermittently, soils generally undisturbed by hard hooves. The high-cattle-impact sites (Category 4) were defined as follows: few vegetated areas undisturbed, tracks heavily used, soils highly disturbed or compacted"
daily February and March min/max 16.3/25.8 and 6.2/15.8

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

Focal species: Vombatus ursinus

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 661 captures or sightings

Years: 2006, 2007

Days: 365

Nets or traps: 8

Net or trap nights: 2920

Camera type: analog

Cameras paired: no

Trap spacing: 0.04

Sampling comments: "Eight independent streambank study sites (each 100 m in length) were used for the study... Four sites had low levels of cattle disturbance (Sites 5, 7, 14 and 16), while the other four sites had high levels (Sites 2, 4, 10 and 11)... the distance between sites was at least 350–400 m... Two motion-sensing infrared-triggered Trapacameras... 35-mm cameras... were used" continuously at each site "between July 2006 and August 2007"; "camera-trap stations were located ~30 m and 70 m along a well-worn track"
trapping effort estimated as 365 days x 8 traps

Metadata
Sample number: 1903

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-10 10:38:16

Modified: 2016-01-12 06:34:19

Abundance distribution
13 species
2 singletons
total count 661
geometric series index: 18.2
Fisher's α: 2.294
geometric series k: 0.6015
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5123
Shannon's H: 1.1741
Good's u: 0.9970
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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