Acambuco
Basic information
Sample name: Acambuco

Reference: M. S. Di Bitetti, S. A. Albanesi, M. J. Foguet, C. De Angelo, and A. D. Brown. 2013. The effect of anthropic pressures and elevation on the large and medium-sized terrestrial mammals of the subtropical mountain forests (Yungas) of NW Argentina. Mammalian Biology 78(1):21-27 [ER 1734]
Geography
Country: Argentina

State: Salta


Coordinate: 22° 9' 51" S, 63° 54' 40" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "centered in the small (70 families) rural community of Acambuco... and the Acambuco Provincial Reserve"

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Protection: other protected area

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: agriculture,grazing,hunting

MAT: 22.0

MAP: 1200.0

Habitat comments: "Premontane Forest (Selva Pedemontana) and Montane Humid Forest (Selva Montana)... Local people practice extractive activities (including hunting), practice agriculture, and raise cattle within the Acambuco Reserve"
climate data are for Yacuiba and are from Lardeaux et al. (2008, Malaria Journal)

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

Sampling methods: line transect,automatic cameras

Sample size: 350 captures or sightings

Years: 2010

Nets or traps: 24

Net or trap nights: 1316

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Trap spacing: 2.09

Sampling comments: "We conducted a camera-trap survey between September 23 and November 18, 2010. We deployed 24 camera-trap stations, each with a digital camera-trap unit (Moultrie M-40)... Camera-trap stations were located along the main dirt road which extends north and south of the locality of Acambuco... The mean distance from a camera-trap station to its nearest one was 2.09" km

Metadata
Sample number: 1933

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-14 17:41:03

Modified: 2020-01-14 07:30:52

Abundance distribution
20 species
2 singletons
total count 350
extrapolated richness: 27.7
Fisher's α: 4.604
geometric series k: 0.7984
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8583
Shannon's H: 2.2540
Good's u: 0.9943
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Thylamys sp.1
Euphractus sexcinctus34.7 kg
Euryoryzomys legatus2
Dasyprocta punctata122.7 kg frugivore
Sylvilagus brasiliensis72
Equus africanus asinus4287 kg
"Equus asinus"
Equus ferus caballus3422 kg
"Equus caballus"
Tapirus terrestris2198 kg browser-frugivore
Bos taurus62337 kg
Mazama gouazoubira2214 kg frugivore-browser
Dicotyles tajacu521 kg
"Pecari tajacu"
Sus scrofa1454 kg herbivore
Puma concolor149 kg carnivore
Herpailurus yagouaroundi45.4 kg carnivore
"Puma yagouaroundi"
Leopardus pardalis98.4 kg carnivore
Leopardus wiedii52.6 kg carnivore
Canis lupus familiaris743 kg carnivore
"Canis lupus"
Cerdocyon thous575.2 kg carnivore-frugivore
Nasua nasua24.4 kg invertivore-frugivore
Eira barbara634.3 kg frugivore-carnivore