Haw River
Basic information
Sample name: Haw River

Reference: D. Muñoz, J. Kapfer, and C. Olfenbuttel. 2014. Do available products to mask human scent influence camera trap survey results?. Wildlife Biology 20(4):246-252 [ER 1725]
Geography
Country: United States

State: North Carolina


County: Alamance


Coordinate: 36.04° N, -79.40° W
Coordinate basis: based on political unit

Geography comments: "16.2 ha of privately owned land"
coordinate is based on Alamance County

Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 16.0

MAP: 1010.0

Habitat comments: "mainly exurban with minor components of agriculture nearby"
climate data are for the Duke Forest and are from Caldwell (1969, Am Midl Nat)

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals

Site area: 16.2

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 2051 captures or sightings

Years: 2011

Days: 158

Nets or traps: 8

Camera type: unclear

Cameras paired: no

Sampling comments: "We randomly applied one of two treatments, ‘scent unmasked’ or ‘scent masked’ , to each of the eight cameras... Camera traps were placed semi-randomly" within the site; "Camera traps were active at the Haw River site from early February to mid-July 2011, with each camera simultaneously in operation for 158 trap-nights"

Metadata
Sample number: 1922

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-13 20:46:41

Modified: 2016-12-14 10:40:58

Abundance distribution
9 species
0 singletons
total count 2051
geometric series index: 10.4
Fisher's α: 1.210
geometric series k: 0.4870
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7803
Shannon's H: 1.6257
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Canis latrans5912 kg carnivore-insectivore
Didelphis virginiana1342.2 kg insectivore-carnivore
Lontra canadensis27.1 kg piscivore
Lynx rufus39.0 kg carnivore
Odocoileus virginianus63275 kg herbivore
Procyon lotor4255.5 kg carnivore-granivore
Sciurus carolinensis459519 g frugivore
Sylvilagus floridanus3341.1 kg herbivore
Urocyon cinereoargenteus34.1 kg frugivore-carnivore