Ingwezi Game Management Project
Basic information
Sample name: Ingwezi Game Management Project

Reference: R. J. Welch, T. Grant, and D. M. Parker. 2019. Using camera traps to generate a species inventory for medium-sized and large mammals in South West Zimbabwe. African Journal of Wildlife Research 49(1):89-99 [ER 3311]
Geography
Country: Zimbabwe


Coordinate: 20° 52' S, 28° 8' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text as range

Geography comments: "a number of private cattle (Bos domesticus) and game ranches (-20°74' to -21°00'S and 28°00' to 28°16'E), known as the Ingwezi Game Management Project, in the Mangwe District" (this apparently means 20º44')

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Protection: other protected area

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 20.4

MAP: 650.0

Habitat comments: "This area is managed as a conservancy and includes 15 small-scale cattle farmers who provide some form of protection to the wildlife and are compensated by profits received from trophy hunting. The study area forms the western end of the extensive Matobo Hills range, made up of large balancing granite boulders known as kopjes... the Mangwe district is exposed to human settlements, trophy hunting, agriculture (small-scale maize production and cattle farming) and high levels of poaching. The study area falls within the Savanna Biome (van Wyk & van Wyk, 1997) and the overall vegetation type is characterized as deciduous tree savanna... Annual rainfall in the region is less than 650 mm and is highly erratic (Lightfoot, 1981; Moyo, 2000). The average annual temperature is 20.4°C with an average high of 27.4°C and average low of 13.4°C"

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

Focal species: Panthera pardus

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 480 captures or sightings

Years: 2009

Nets or traps: 10

Net or trap nights: 400

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: yes

Sampling comments: "A camera trapping survey was carried out from 23 October to 5 December 2009 and was originally designed to meet the requirements for estimating the density of leopards... cameras... were placed within a minimum leopard home range size of 10 km2... Twenty Wildview Xtreme 5 (Wildview, Grand Prairie, Texas) cameras were placed in pairs, facing each other... images of the same species at the same camera site within a period of 30 minutes were excluded "

Metadata
Sample number: 3685

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2020-10-21 14:32:13

Modified: 2020-10-21 03:32:13

Abundance distribution
34 species
9 singletons
total count 480
geometric series index: 54.1
Fisher's α: 8.358
geometric series k: 0.8568
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8366
Shannon's H: 2.4980
Good's u: 0.9813
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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