Waterberg Plateau Park (surrounding flatlands)
Basic information
Sample name: Waterberg Plateau Park (surrounding flatlands)

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
Latlng 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"
MAP 400 to 500 mm

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

Sampling methods: no design, automatic cameras

Sample size: 383 captures or sightings

Years: 2006

Nets or traps: 4

Net or trap nights: 200

Camera type: analog

Cameras paired: yes

Trap spacing: 5.4

Basal area status: not applicable

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 no: 1897

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-09 19:44:55

Modified: 2016-12-14 21:56:35

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
35 species
6 singletons
total count 383
geometric series index: 52.2
Fisher's α: 9.372
geometric series k: 0.8845
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9318
Shannon's H: 3.011
Good's u: 0.9844
Register
Bos taurus (cow)5
Equus africanus asinus (African wild ass)2
Tragelaphus strepsiceros (greater kudu)17189.0 kg
Oryx gazella (gemsbok)10195.0 kg
Sylvicapra grimmia (common duiker)513.0 kg
Madoqua kirkii (Kirk's dik-dik)24.8 kg
Taurotragus oryx (common eland)5
Phacochoerus africanus (common warthog)2582.0 kg
"Phacochoerus aethiopicus"
Panthera pardus (leopard)19
Parahyaena brunnea (brown hyena)8
"Hyaena brunnea"
Caracal caracal (caracal)3
"Felis caracal"
Felis lybica (African wildcat)204.5 kg
Genetta genetta 191.7 kg
Acinonyx jubatus (cheetah)142.0 kg
Mellivora capensis (honey badger)27.7 kg
Canis mesomelas (black-backed jackal)87.9 kg
Herpestes sanguineus 28
Mungos mungo 31.5 kg
Vulpes chama (Cape fox)22.7 kg
Otocyon megalotis (bat-eared fox)53.2 kg
Ictonyx striatus (striped polecat)2753.0 g
Papio cynocephalus (yellow baboon)2116.0 kg
Lepus saxatilis 272.0 kg
Orycteropus afer (aardvark)440.0 kg
Pedetes capensis 62.4 kg
Hystrix africaeaustralis 2815.0 kg
Numida meleagris 651.3 kg
Pternistis adspersus 20
Lophotis ruficrista 12
Ardeotis kori 1104.0 g
Tockus leucomelas 4211.0 g
Streptopelia capicola 1142.0 g
Plocepasser mahali 16.3 g
Bubo africanus 1
Lamprotornis nitens 1