Mudumalai Tiger Reserve
Basic information
Sample name: Mudumalai Tiger Reserve

Reference: T. Ramesh, R. Kalle, K. Sankar, and Q. Qureshi. 2015. Role of body size in activity budgets of mammals in the Western Ghats of India. Journal of Tropical Ecology 31(4):315-323 [ER 1746]
Geography
Country: India

State: Tamil Nadu

Coordinate: 12° 38' 30" N, 77° 34' 30" E
Latlng basis: stated in text as range

Geography comments: "at the junction of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala states"
altitude 960 to 1266 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Protection: wildlife protected area

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 35.0

CMT: 8.0

MAP: 1500.0

Habitat comments: "deciduous (DD), semi-evergreen (SE) and dry thorn (DT) forests"
MAP 1000 to 2000 m (varies spatially)

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

Site area: 18700.0

Sampling methods: no design, automatic cameras

Sample size: 11267 captures or sightings

Years: 2008 - 2010

Nets or traps: 40

Net or trap nights: 7200

Camera type: analog

Cameras paired: yes

Trap spacing: 1.8

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "The present study was carried out in an intensive study area of 187 km2... Camera-trap data for our study were collected between November and April during 2008, 2009 and 2010... Cameras were distributed uniformly across the sites every 1.8 km... Each station comprised a pair of passive infrared analogue camera traps DeerCamR DC300... we had 20 trap stations in deciduous forest, and 17 and 13 traps in semi-evergreen and dry thorn forests respectively"

Metadata
Sample no: 1946

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-19 21:26:56

Modified: 2016-01-19 10:26:56

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
26 species
0 singleton
total count 11267
geometric series index: 26.9
Fisher's α: 3.181
geometric series k: 0.7809
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.844
Shannon's H: 2.3274
Good's u: 1
Register
Panthera tigris (tiger)267
Panthera pardus (leopard)331
Cuon alpinus (dhole)175
Hyaena hyaena (striped hyena)2230.0 kg
Melursus ursinus (sloth bear)21367.0 kg
Elephas maximus (Asian elephant)33893711.0 kg
Bos gaurus (gaur)931481.0 kg
Cervus unicolor (sambar deer)645
"Rusa unicolor"
Axis axis (chital)234040.0 kg
Sus scrofa (pig)297
Muntiacus sp. 138
"Muntiacus muntjak": most likely M. malabaricus based on the geographic location, but possibly M. vaginalis
Tetracerus quadricornis (four-horned antelope)8
Felis chaus (jungle cat)475.3 kg
Prionailurus rubiginosus (rusty-spotted cat)7
Prionailurus bengalensis (leopard cat)3
Urva vitticolla 117
"Herpestes vitticollis"
Urva edwardsii 28
"Herpestes edwardsii"
Urva smithii 61
"Herpestes smithii"
Viverricula indica 1253.0 kg
Paradoxurus hermaphroditus (Asian palm civet)302.4 kg
Paradoxurus jerdoni (brown palm civet)12
Semnopithecus priam (tufted gray langur)41910.0 kg
"Semnopithecus entellus": see Nag et al. 2011
Macaca radiata (bonnet macaque)1764.8 kg
Moschiola indica (Indian spotted chevrotain)153
"Moschiola meminna"
Lepus nigricollis 811
Hystrix indica 52213.0 kg