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

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
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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