Akole Tahsil
Basic information
Sample name: Akole Tahsil

Reference: V. Athreya, M. Odden, J. D. C. Linnell, J. Krishnaswamy, and U. Karanth. 2013. Big cats in our backyards: persistence of large carnivores in a human dominated landscape in India. PLOS ONE 8(e57872):1-8 [ER 3001]
Geography
Country: India

State: Maharashtra


Coordinate: 19.52° N, 74.01° E
Coordinate basis: stated in text as range

Geography comments: "in Akole Tahsil located in the Ahmednagar district (19.576959 N 73.937123 E to 19.460715 N 74.089954 E) of western Maharashtra... The intensive study area covered a 179 km2 area"

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: cropland

Protection: unprotected

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: "a densely populated, irrigated valley... Approximately 80% of the human population is rural with farming of sugar cane, millets, and vegetables being the major source of livelihood. Rainfall varies from 1000 to 2000 mm per year... with a human population density of 177 km-2"

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,other small mammals,birds

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 1184 captures or sightings

Years: 2008

Days: 30

Nets or traps: 40

Net or trap nights: 1110

Camera type: analog

Cameras paired: yes

Trap spacing: 1.5

Sampling comments: "Forty camera trap locations were selected... Most trap sites were on human trails. The duration of the camera trap survey was fixed at 30 days between November 2008 and December 2008... The sampling was carried out in two trapping sessions of 15 days each covering two blocks, each with 20 trap locations... Of the 40 trap locations, three became non-operational due to theft of cameras... an average trap spacing of about 1.5 km was maintained... Each camera trap had two camera units facing each other 5 m apart, fixed at locations judged to be optimal leopard travel routes. Deercam DC 300 passive detection camera traps protected by metal shells were used and set at a height of 40– 45 cm above the ground" and these were film cameras

Metadata
Sample number: 3230

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-02-28 19:51:16

Modified: 2019-02-28 08:51:16

Abundance distribution
13 species
3 singletons
total count 1184
geometric series index: 18.6
Fisher's α: 2.043
geometric series k: 0.5711
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4845
Shannon's H: 1.0966
Good's u: 0.9975
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Panthera pardus8133 kg carnivore
Prionailurus rubiginosus10
Viverricula indica53.0 kg invertivore-carnivore
Vulpes bengalensis12.9 kg
Felis chaus205.3 kg carnivore
Hyaena hyaena6530 kg carnivore-insectivore
Canis aureus indicus39.9 kg carnivore-frugivore
Lepus nigricollis8
Homo sapiens83064 kg
Felis catus147
"domestic cat"
Canis lupus familiaris1243 kg carnivore
"domestic dog"
Urva spp.1
"Herpestes spp."
Vanellus indicus1181 g carnivore