Taunton National Park
Basic information
Sample name: Taunton National Park

Reference: Y. Wang and D. O. Fisher. 2012. Dingoes affect activity of feral cats, but do not exclude them from the habitat of an endangered macropod. Wildlife Research 39(7):611-620 [ER 1733]
Geography
Country: Australia

State: Queensland


Coordinate: 22° 34' S, 149° 11' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: a park of 11,626 ha "in central Queensland"

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 22.0

CMT: 19.0

MAP: 650.0

Habitat comments: "The park comprises two former cattle properties... Vegetation includes a mosaic of cleared grassy patches dominated by introduced buffel grass, Acacia forests and Eucalyptus woodlands"
climate data are for the Fitzroy Catchment and are from Murphy et al. (2015, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews)

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,ungulates,other large mammals,other small mammals,birds

Site area: 11626

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 1396 captures or sightings

Years: 2009, 2010

Nets or traps: 41

Net or trap nights: 4045

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Sampling comments: sampling was with "41 camera traps... We used several different models of digital-camera traps, including 16 Moultrie Game Spy D-50s... 16 Cuddeback Excites... 7 Reconyx Rapidfire... 2 Bushnell Trailscout Pro" that were placed in "42 random locations spaced at least 500m apart throughout the park"; sampling was "From August 2009 to August 2010... One camera was moved to a second location after 4 weeks"

Metadata
Sample number: 1932

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-14 14:46:14

Modified: 2016-12-15 04:33:08

Abundance distribution
13 species
0 singletons
total count 1396
extrapolated richness: 13.8
Fisher's α: 1.982
geometric series k: 0.6454
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8366
Shannon's H: 2.0613
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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