Alyangula
Basic information
Sample name: Alyangula
Reference: J. Heiniger, S. F. Cameron, and G. Gillespie. 2018. Evaluation of risks for two native mammal species from feral cat baiting in monsoonal tropical northern Australia. Wildlife Research 45(6):518-527 [ER 3009]
Geography
Country: Australia
State: Northern Territory
Coordinate: 13° 50' S, 136° 25' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "in an area of sandstone outcrop near the township of Alyangula" on the island of Groote Eylandt
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna
Protection: unprotected
Substrate: ground surface
MAP: 1300.0
Habitat comments: "laterite plains and sandstone plateaux, with eucalypt woodland being the dominant vegetation. It has a tropical monsoonal climate with a strongly seasonal rainfall averaging 1300 mm per annum, falling mostly between November and April"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,other large mammals,other small mammals,birds,lizards
Sampling methods: no design,baited,automatic cameras
Sample size: 450 captures or sightings
Years: 2016
Days: 8
Seasons: dry
Nets or traps: 60
Net or trap nights: 480
Camera type: digital
Cameras paired: no
Trap spacing: 0.17
Sampling comments: "Field work was undertaken in the late dry season (August–October)... The first baiting trial was initiated at dusk on the 4 September 2016... During this trial, 60 non-toxic cat baits were deployed by hand 170 m apart... A second trial commenced on 9 September 2016... with 60 baits hand-deployed at the same locations... At each bait station, a Reconyx (Holmen, Wisconsin, USA) white-flash motion-sensor camera was deployed facing the bait... Each camera was deployed with a near-horizontal field of view 35 cm from ground level... Cameras were deployed horizontally"
first trial was five days and the second was three days
first trial was five days and the second was three days
Metadata
Sample number: 3238
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-03-03 16:59:51
Modified: 2019-03-03 05:59:51
Abundance distribution
14 species
3 singletons
total count 450
geometric series index: 23.4
Fisher's α: 2.741
geometric series k: 0.6788
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7343
Shannon's H: 1.5783
Good's u: 0.9934
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