Drambos Cave
Basic information
Sample name: Drambos Cave
Sample aka: Kharakhena
Reference: K. M. Boyer-Ontl and J. D. Pruetz. 2014. Giving the forest eyes: the benefits of using camera traps to study unhabituated chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in southeastern Senegal. International Journal of Primatology 35:881-894 [ER 3303]
Geography
Country: Senegal
Coordinate: 12° 55' N, 11° 32' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "in southeastern Senegal along the Malian and Guinean borders within the Department of Kedougou... Kharakhena is the name of the nearest village to the study site, located at 12° 54.513′ N, 11°32.115′ W" and the exact site is agbout "10 km to the southwest" of the village
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna
Protection: unprotected
Substrate: ground surface
Habitat comments: "the habitat is a mosaic of Sudanian savanna and Guinean woodland... The region is hot and dry much of the year with a rainy season lasting 4 mo, from June through September... annual rainfall averages <1000 mm"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates
Focal species: Pan troglodytes verus
Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras
Sample size: 29742 captures or sightings
Years: 2011 - 2013
Seasons: dry,wet or monsoon
Nets or traps: 1
Net or trap nights: 275
Camera type: digital
Cameras paired: no
Sampling comments: the study used five cameras "in the Drambos group's range" and apparently only one was stationed at the cave
the camera was a Reconyx PC800 HyperFire and the study was "From April 2011 through April 2013"
the camera was a Reconyx PC800 HyperFire and the study was "From April 2011 through April 2013"
Metadata
Sample number: 3682
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2020-10-20 22:05:26
Modified: 2020-10-20 11:05:26
Abundance distribution
14 species
0 singletons
total count 29742
extrapolated richness: 15.2
Fisher's α: 1.406
geometric series k: 0.5220
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6806
Shannon's H: 1.3720
Good's u: 1.0000
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| Hystrix cristata | 7901 | 12 kg |
| Cricetomys gambianus | 3449 | 1.4 kg frugivore-granivore |
| Phacochoerus africanus | 3201 | 82 kg grazer-browser |
| Panthera pardus pardus | 536 | 33 kg carnivore |
| Genetta genetta | 381 | 1.7 kg insectivore-frugivore |
| Mellivora capensis | 84 | 7.7 kg carnivore-invertivore |
| Crocuta crocuta | 64 | 66 kg carnivore |
| Mungos mungo | 43 | 1.5 kg insectivore-carnivore |
| Atilax paludinosus | 12 | 2.8 kg invertivore-carnivore |
| Civettictis civetta | 6 | 14 kg frugivore-insectivore |
| Chlorocebus aethiops | 6 | frugivore-folivore |
| "Cercopithecus aethiops" | ||
| Herpestes sanguineus | 3 | 465 g |
| "Galerella sanguinea" | ||
| Xerus erythropus | 3 | |