Limi Valley
Basic information
Sample name: Limi Valley

Reference: R. P. Lama, T. R. Ghale, M. K. Suwal, R. Ranabhat, and G. R. Regmi. 2018. First photographic evidence of snow leopard Panthera uncia (Mammalia: Carnivora: Felidae) outside current protected areas network in Nepal Himalaya. Journal of Threatened Taxa 10(8):12086-12090 [ER 3033]
Geography
Country: Nepal



Coordinate: 30.29° N, 81.65° E
Geography comments: "Limi Valley is located in the trans-Himalayan steppe environment in Humla District of Nepal (Fig. 1), covering an area of ca. 1200km2"
coordinate based on Limi Valley

Environment
Habitat: tundra

Protection: unprotected

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: none given, but the region is in Köppen zone ET (tundra)

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

Focal species: Panthera uncia

Sampling methods: quadrat,automatic cameras

Sample size: 194 captures or sightings

Years: 2015

Seasons: summer

Nets or traps: 16

Net or trap nights: 195

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Sampling comments: "We conducted a camera-trapping survey in the Limi Valley during July and August, 2015 to conduct a rapid assessment of Snow Leopard status. We divided the total study area into 5x5 km2 grid cells... and placed one or two cameras in each grid... We set up 17 Bushnell Trophy HD cameras in 17 locations (Fig. 1) within 10 grids... A minimum distance between camera-traps was kept at 2.5km, and they were placed at elevations from 3,092–4,608 m... One camera-trap was lost thus only data from the remaining 16 camera-traps were used in the analysis... We defined capture events as independent images of a species at a location captured at least 60 minutes apart"
711 images of birds are not broken down to species

Metadata
Sample number: 3278

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-03-15 22:26:32

Modified: 2019-03-15 11:26:32

Abundance distribution
5 species
0 singletons
total count 194
geometric series index: 5.5
Fisher's α: 0.937
geometric series k: 0.4962
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6039
Shannon's H: 1.1157
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
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