Chorongo
Basic information
Sample name: Chorongo
Sample aka: Tiputini Biodiversity Station
Reference: J. G. Blake, D. Mosquera, J. Guerra, B. A. Loiselle, D. Romo, and K. Swing. 2011. Mineral licks as diversity hotspots in lowland forest of eastern Ecuador. Diversity 3(2):217-234 [ER 1714]
Geography
Country: Ecuador
State: Orellana
Coordinate: 1° 38' 4" S, 76° 9' 53" W
Latlng basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "within the ~1.7-million ha Yasunà Biosphere Reserve"
elevation 190 to 270 m
elevation 190 to 270 m
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Protection: biosphere reserve
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 25.0
MAP: 2860.0
Habitat comments: "undisturbed lowland rainforest" and specifically "terra firme forest"
climate data are for the Tiputini Biodiversity Station and are from Renninger and Phillips (2011, Oecologia)
climate data are for the Tiputini Biodiversity Station and are from Renninger and Phillips (2011, Oecologia)
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, primates, rodents, ungulates, other large mammals, other small mammals, birds
Sampling methods: no design, automatic cameras
Sample size: 1598 captures or sightings
Nets or traps: 2
Net or trap nights: 1214
Camera type: both
Cameras paired: no
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "We used both digital (Snapshot Sniper, LLC) and film-based (Highlander PhotoscoutTM, PTC Technologies) camera traps triggered by an infrared motion-and-heat detector"
dates of field work and number of cameras are not indicated, but it is presumed that only two cameras deployed because the site is a single salt lick
dates of field work and number of cameras are not indicated, but it is presumed that only two cameras deployed because the site is a single salt lick
Metadata
Sample no: 1911
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2016-01-10 21:16:05
Modified: 2018-06-30 11:25:58
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
21 species
6 singletons
total count 1598
geometric series index: 32.8
Fisher's α: 3.414
geometric series k: 0.7361
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8129
Shannon's H: 1.9246
Good's u: 0.9962
Register
| Leucopternis melanops | 1 | 312.0 g |
| Penelope jacquacu | 3 | 1.6 kg |
| Pipile pipile | 458 | |
| Mitu salvini | 12 | 3.1 kg |
| Psophia crepitans | 2 | 1.0 kg |
| Columba plumbea | 43 | |
| Ara macao | 1 | 1.0 kg |
| Didelphis marsupialis (common opossum) | 8 | 1.0 kg |
| Dasypus novemcinctus (nine-banded armadillo) | 13 | 4.4 kg |
| Ateles belzebuth (white-fronted spider monkey) | 1 | |
| Nasua nasua (South American coati) | 1 | 4.4 kg |
| Leopardus pardalis (ocelot) | 1 | 8.4 kg |
| Tapirus terrestris (Brazilian tapir) | 305 | 198.0 kg |
| Dicotyles tajacu (collared peccary) | 85 | |
| "Pecari tajacu" | ||
| Tayassu pecari (white-lipped peccary) | 6 | 29.0 kg |
| Mazama americana (red brocket) | 347 | 26.0 kg |
| Sciurus igniventris | 1 | |
| Cuniculus paca | 183 | |
| Dasyprocta fuliginosa | 105 | 4.9 kg |
| Myoprocta pratti | 16 | 600.0 g |
| Proechimys spp. | 6 | |