Einasleigh Uplands
Basic information
Sample name: Einasleigh Uplands
Reference: D. M. Forsyth, A. Pople, L. Woodford, M. Brennan, M. Amos, P. D. Moloney, B. Fanson, and G. Story. 2019. Landscape-scale effects of homesteads, water, and dingoes on invading chital deer in Australia's dry tropics. Journal of Mammalogy 100(6):1954-1965 [ER 3381]
Geography
Country: Australia
State: Queensland
Coordinate: 18° 28' S, 144° 7' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: "We conducted our study on seven cattle ranches (range: 18,100–91,100 ha) in the Einasleigh Uplands (basis of coordinate) bioregion of the North Queensland Dry Tropics (NQDT)"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: pasture
Protection: unprotected
Substrate: ground surface
Disturbance: agriculture,grazing,hunting,invasive animals
MAP: 700.0
Habitat comments: "Open woodlands of Eucalyptus spp. and Corymbia spp. are interspersed with patches of tussock grassland and Acacia and Melaleuca thickets"
"The climate is semi-arid tropical with summer-dominant rainfall"
"Cattle grazing (approximately one animal per 10 ha) is the primary land use in the study area"
"There has been recreational hunting of chital deer on some of these ranches, but this is not thought to greatly affect abundance"
"Feral pigs have been present throughout the study area for many decades"
"Dingoes occur on all ranches, but are controlled by up to twice-yearly coordinated ground- and aerial-poison baiting"
"The climate is semi-arid tropical with summer-dominant rainfall"
"Cattle grazing (approximately one animal per 10 ha) is the primary land use in the study area"
"There has been recreational hunting of chital deer on some of these ranches, but this is not thought to greatly affect abundance"
"Feral pigs have been present throughout the study area for many decades"
"Dingoes occur on all ranches, but are controlled by up to twice-yearly coordinated ground- and aerial-poison baiting"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,ungulates,other large mammals
Focal species: Axis axis
Sampling methods: line transect,automatic cameras
Sample size: 4905 captures or sightings
Years: 2015
Days: 51
Seasons: dry
Nets or traps: 49
Camera type: digital
Cameras paired: yes
Trap spacing: 1.6
Sampling comments: "The cameras were set on 10–14 September 2015 (the late dry season) ... with cameras removed on 27–30 October 2015. Each camera operated for 47−51 days."
"We established one transect on each of the seven ranches, with the minimum distance between transects being 21 km (mean distance = 34 km)"
"The origin of each camera transect ... was located as near as practical to the ranch’s homestead"
"Two remote cameras (RECONYX “Professional” or “Outdoor” models; RECONYX, Inc., Holmen, Wisconsin) were placed at the origin (0 km), and two cameras at distances of 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 km from the origin (i.e., seven pairs of cameras per transect)"
"The two cameras within a pair were set within 100 m of each other, with each placed to view the nearest game trail"
"Cameras were set, unbaited, on either a tree or stake"
"We established one transect on each of the seven ranches, with the minimum distance between transects being 21 km (mean distance = 34 km)"
"The origin of each camera transect ... was located as near as practical to the ranch’s homestead"
"Two remote cameras (RECONYX “Professional” or “Outdoor” models; RECONYX, Inc., Holmen, Wisconsin) were placed at the origin (0 km), and two cameras at distances of 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 km from the origin (i.e., seven pairs of cameras per transect)"
"The two cameras within a pair were set within 100 m of each other, with each placed to view the nearest game trail"
"Cameras were set, unbaited, on either a tree or stake"
Metadata
Sample number: 3755
Contributor: Benjamin Carter
Enterer: Benjamin Carter
Created: 2021-06-04 16:26:02
Modified: 2021-06-04 06:26:02
Abundance distribution
9 species
0 singletons
total count 4905
geometric series index: 9.7
Fisher's α: 1.067
geometric series k: 0.4224
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5957
Shannon's H: 1.2770
Good's u: 1.0000
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