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St. Brieux (winter 2011)
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Basic information
Sample name: St. Brieux (winter 2011)

Reference: P. O'Brien, E. Vander Wal, E. L. Koen, C. D. Brown, J. Guy, F. M. van Beest, and R. K. Brook. 2019. Understanding habitat co-occurrence and the potential for competition between native mammals and invasive wild pigs (Sus scrofa) at the northern edge of their range. Canadian Journal of Zoology 97:537-546 [ER 3343]
Geography
Country: Canada

State: Saskatchewan


Coordinate: 52° 37' N, 104° 51' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "275 km2... near the town of St. Brieux"

Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Protection: unprotected

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: agriculture,grazing

Habitat comments: "part of a broad transition zone between the Prairie and the Boreal Plains ecozones... referred to as the Aspen Parkland Ecoregion... consists of a mix of annual cropland and perennial forage farmland, cattle grazing lands, native deciduous aspen forest, grassland, and wetland"
a plurality of sites are within forest

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

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 124 captures or sightings

Years: 2011

Days: 90

Seasons: winter

Nets or traps: 17

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Sampling comments: "We deployed 17 Hyperfire 900 camera units (Reconyx Inc., Holmen, Wisconsin, USA) from December 2011 to June 2013 in a stratified-random design. We stratified habitats into four dominant types: deciduous forest (n = 6 camera units), grassland (n = 3 camera units), cropland (n = 3 camera units), and wetland (n = 5 camera units)... We considered all photo series that were uninterrupted for up to 5 min as single events"
"winter" is assumed to mean all of December, January, and February, i.e., 90 days
indeterminate rodents, small mustelids, and birds are also listed in the table

Metadata
Sample number: 3711

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2020-11-01 09:18:54

Modified: 2020-10-31 22:18:54

Abundance distribution
9 species
0 singletons
total count 124
extrapolated richness: 10.9
Fisher's α: 2.230
geometric series k: 0.6722
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7700
Shannon's H: 1.7569
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Sus scrofa954 kg herbivore
Odocoileus virginianus4875 kg herbivore
Alces alces4421 kg herbivore
Canis latrans2212 kg carnivore-insectivore
Odocoileus hemionus765 kg browser
Lepus americanus231.4 kg browser
Vulpes vulpes45.3 kg carnivore-insectivore
Procyon lotor25.5 kg carnivore-granivore
Homo sapiens564 kg
Current reference: Herzog et al. 2003 (ER 1261)