Mainaro
Basic information
Sample name: Mainaro

Sample aka: Kibale National Park

Reference: J. Widness and G. P. Aronsen. 2017. Camera trap data on mammal presence, behaviour and poaching: a case study from Mainaro, Kibale National Park, Uganda. African Journal of Ecology 56(2):383-389 [ER 2856]
Geography
Country: Uganda


Coordinate: 0° 21' 35" N, 30° 23' 18" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "~108 km2 of southwest Kibale" in the national park

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: "Much of the Mainaro area was cleared for farmland in the 1980s; however, farmers were removed in the eraly 1990s... In 1994, a large-scale reforestation programme was started... Cameras were placed in both the mature forest and in regenerating areas"

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,ungulates,other large mammals

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 67 captures or sightings

Years: 2006, 2008 - 2010

Days: 95

Nets or traps: 6

Net or trap nights: 621

Camera type: both

Cameras paired: no

Sampling comments: "Camera traps were set at a height of 0.5–1 m in various habitat types and were active 18–32 days per year (average = 24 days)... The traps included two DeerCam DC300 35-mm film cameras, five Cuddeback NF-4300 NoFlash infrared digital cameras, and two Recon Extreme Infrared Extreme Weather Model 5.0 digital cameras... Images separated by 60 min or more were treated as separate events"

Metadata
Sample number: 3090

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2018-09-08 17:51:25

Modified: 2018-09-08 07:53:40

Abundance distribution
12 species
3 singletons
total count 67
extrapolated richness: 20.9
Fisher's α: 4.260
geometric series k: 0.7729
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8370
Shannon's H: 2.0797
Good's u: 0.9557
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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