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Newins-Ziegler Woods
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Basic information
Sample name: Newins-Ziegler Woods

Sample aka: University of Florida

Reference: M. Bainum III, K. E. Sieving, R. McCleery, and D. Wald. 2015. Demonstrating camera trap techniques and their application for identifying feral cats across a college campus. Journal of Undergraduate Research 16(3):1-5 [ER 3253]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Florida


Coordinate: 29.65° N, -82.35° W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: a forest fragment very roughly 200 x 100 m based on the published map combined with a Google map
coordinate based on University of Florida

Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Altered habitat: fragment

Protection: unprotected

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: "a thicket near the heart of campus with limited foot traffic, and its densely wooded dirt trails keep people from interacting directly with much of the area"

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,other small mammals

Sampling methods: no design,baited,automatic cameras

Sample size: 54 captures or sightings

Nets or traps: 2

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Sampling comments: "Cuddeback camera models" were used, apparently one camera at each of two stations
baiting of some kind was used to attract cats
there were at least five trapping nights, but the actual total is not stated
counts are of images; only two distinct individual cats were photographed

Metadata
Sample number: 3591

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2020-01-14 19:39:49

Modified: 2021-06-04 08:44:38

Abundance distribution
3 species
0 singletons
total count 54
extrapolated richness: 3.4
Fisher's α: 0.685
geometric series k: 0.4000
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5577
Shannon's H: 0.9059
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Procyon lotor255.5 kg carnivore-granivore
"raccoon"
Didelphis virginiana42.2 kg insectivore-carnivore
"opossum"
Felis catus25
"cat"
Current reference: Herzog et al. 2003 (ER 1261)