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
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"
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

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: 1898

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

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

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

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
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
Register
Giraffa camelopardalis (northern giraffe)1942.0 kg
Bos taurus (cow)3
Tragelaphus strepsiceros (greater kudu)30189.0 kg
Oryx gazella (gemsbok)19195.0 kg
Sylvicapra grimmia (common duiker)113.0 kg
Madoqua kirkii (Kirk's dik-dik)394.8 kg
Phacochoerus africanus (common warthog)1282.0 kg
"Phacochoerus aethiopicus"
Panthera pardus (leopard)6
Parahyaena brunnea (brown hyena)16
"Hyaena brunnea"
Crocuta crocuta (spotted hyena)266.0 kg
Caracal caracal (caracal)2
"Felis caracal"
Felis lybica (African wildcat)234.5 kg
Genetta genetta 121.7 kg
Mellivora capensis (honey badger)27.7 kg
Canis mesomelas (black-backed jackal)67.9 kg
Herpestes sanguineus 21
Mungos mungo 11.5 kg
Ictonyx striatus (striped polecat)1753.0 g
Papio cynocephalus (yellow baboon)1416.0 kg
Lepus saxatilis 282.0 kg
Orycteropus afer (aardvark)140.0 kg
Hystrix africaeaustralis 1115.0 kg
Numida meleagris 611.3 kg
Pternistis adspersus 19
Lophotis ruficrista 17
Ardeotis kori 1104.0 g
Afrotis afraoides 1
Tockus erythrorhynchus 1150.0 g
Tockus leucomelas 1211.0 g
Tockus monteiri 1
Streptopelia capicola 7142.0 g
Streptopelia senegalensis 18.2 g
Laniarius atrococcineus 8
Plocepasser mahali 56.3 g
Corythaixoides concolor 7258.0 g
Pterocles bicinctus 1237.0 g
Anthus vaalensis 227.0 g
Burhinus capensis 1423.0 g
Coturnix coturnix 190.0 g
Lamprotornis australis 1
Dicrurus adsimilis 1