Augusto Ruschi Biological Reserve
Basic information
Sample name: Augusto Ruschi Biological Reserve

Reference: L. Fornitano, T. Angeli, R. T. Costa, N. Olifiers, and R. de Cassia Bianchi. 2015. Medium to large-sized mammals of the Augusto Ruschi Biological Reserve, Säo Paulo State, Brazil. Oecologia Australis 19(1):232-243 [ER 2070]
Geography
Country: Brazil

State: Säo Paulo


Coordinate: 21° 10' 33" S, 48° 5' 16" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "in the municipality of Sertäozinho" with "a total area of 757 ha"

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Altered habitat: fragment

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 20.0

MAP: 1868.0

Habitat comments: "five forest fragments ranging from 55.07 ha to 189.21 ha, 300-1000 m apart from each other... pasture and forest fragments of seasonal semi-deciduous forest of Cerrado... surrounded by sugar cane plantations"
climate data are for the Reserva Biológica Augusto Ruschi and are from Wendt et al. (2011, Flora)

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

Sampling methods: baited,automatic cameras

Sample size: 148 captures or sightings

Net or trap nights: 562

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Trap spacing: 0.5

Sampling comments: "Digital camera traps (Scoutgard SG550) were placed every 500 m in the five fragments... from October 2012 to May 2013... the number of sampling points in each fragment varied from two to six. The cameras were baited with bobcat urine (Lynx rufus, BobcatPee®), banana, and bacon"

Metadata
Sample number: 2011

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-05-23 12:22:50

Modified: 2016-12-17 01:19:18

Abundance distribution
9 species
1 singleton
total count 148
geometric series index: 13.0
Fisher's α: 2.110
geometric series k: 0.6180
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7352
Shannon's H: 1.5338
Good's u: 0.9934
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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