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
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
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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Register
Bos taurus | 110 | 337 kg |
Vombatus ursinus | 446 | 29 kg |
Vulpes vulpes | 24 | 5.3 kg carnivore-insectivore |
Felis catus | 23 | |
Trichosurus vulpecula | 15 | 2.1 kg folivore |
Wallabia 'bicolor' | 15 | |
Menura novaehollandiae | 12 | 1.1 kg |
Oryctolagus cuniculus | 6 | 2.5 kg browser-grazer |
Cervus spp. | 4 | |
Ardea ibis | 2 | |
Physignathus lesueurii | 2 | |
Rattus spp. | 1 | |
Chenonetta jubata | 1 | 815 g |