Mwanihana
Basic information
Sample name: Mwanihana

Sample aka: Udzungwa Mountains

Reference: F. Rovero, E. Martin, M. Rosa, J. A. Ahumada, and D. Spitale. 2014. Estimating species richness and modelling habitat preferences of tropical forest mammals from camera trap data. PLOS ONE 9(e103300):1-12 [ER 1745]
Geography
Country: Tanzania


Coordinate: 7° 45' S, 36° 52' E
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Geography comments: "The study was conducted in Mwanihana forest"
elevation 290 to 2250 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: selective logging

WMT: 22.6

CMT: 17.2

MAP: 1500.0

Habitat comments: "The forest habitat broadly ranges east-west from lowland, deciduous forest to montane, evergreen forest... The lower elevation habitats, which include deciduous, semi-deciduous and riverine evergreen forest, have been degraded historically and have large portions of secondary, regenerating vegetation... Anthropogenic disturbance in the form of firewood collection occurred at the lower elevations"

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

Site area: 12000

Sampling methods: quadrat,automatic cameras

Sample size: 1257 captures or sightings

Years: 2009

Days: 133

Nets or traps: 20

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Sampling comments: "Camera trapping was conducted from July to November 2009... We used [Reconyx RM45] digital cameras... we designed a regular grid of 60 camera trap locations at a density of one camera per 2 km2, and placed at random across the forest... we sampled the 60 points by deploying three consecutive arrays of 20 camera traps (south, central and northern Mwanihana, respectively). Therefore, the data collection lasted 133 days"

Metadata
Sample number: 1945

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-19 21:03:02

Modified: 2016-01-19 10:03:02

Abundance distribution
26 species
2 singletons
total count 1257
geometric series index: 32.9
Fisher's α: 4.638
geometric series k: 0.7896
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8379
Shannon's H: 2.2387
Good's u: 0.9984
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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Dendrohyrax arboreus232.0 kg browser
Loxodonta africana112731 kg browser-grazer
Petrodromus tetradactylus3
Rhynchocyon cirnei4
Rhynchocyon udzungwensis45
Atilax paludinosus32.8 kg invertivore-carnivore
Bdeogale crassicauda130 invertivore-carnivore
Civettictis civetta114 kg frugivore-insectivore
Genetta servalina lowei183.0 kg carnivore-invertivore
Mellivora capensis77.7 kg carnivore-invertivore
Mungos mungo21.5 kg insectivore-carnivore
Nandinia binotata22.7 kg frugivore-invertivore
Panthera pardus833 kg carnivore
Cercocebus sanjei73 frugivore
Cercopithecus mitis22 frugivore-folivore
Papio cynocephalus316 kg browser-grazer
Piliocolobus gordonorum5
"Procolobus gordonorum"
Colobus angolensis1
Cricetomys gambianus2761.4 kg frugivore-granivore
Hystrix africaeaustralis1115 kg browser
Paraxerus vexillarius46
Cephalophus harveyi36712 kg
Cephalophus spadix60
Nesotragus moschatus1143.7 kg browser
"Neotragus moschatus"
Potamochoerus larvatus1838 kg grazer-browser
Syncerus caffer4548 kg grazer-browser