Kloof/Hillcrest
Basic information
Sample name: Kloof/Hillcrest
Sample aka: Durban

Reference: C. D. Widdows, T. Ramesh, and C. T. Downs. 2015. Factors affecting the distribution of large spotted genets (Genetta tigrina) in an urban environment in South Africa. Urban Ecosystems 18(4):1401-1413 [ER 3013]
Geography
Country: South Africa
State: KwaZulu-Natal

Coordinate: -29.785982° S, 30.829842° E
Basis of coordinate: stated in text
Geography comments: "urban suburbs of Kloof/ Hillcrest... The altitude of the study site is≥560 m ASL"
Climate and habitat
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna
Altered habitat: combined
Protection: unprotected
Substrate: ground surface
MAP: 974.0
Habitat comments: "Most rainfall occurs in the summer... The vegetation in the study area is dominated by KwaZulu-Natal sandstone sourveld scattered with low shrubs and patches of riverine forests... 68 % of this grassland biome has been transformed due to plantations, cultivations and urban development... This landscape has numerous urban nature reserves"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, primates, rodents, ungulates, other large mammals
Sampling methods: no design, automatic cameras
Sample size: 1354
Years: 2012, 2013
Nets or traps: 5
Net or trap nights: 582
Camera type: digital
Cameras paired: no
Sampling comments: "We used five digital camera traps (LtI Acorn ® 6210MC, China) triggered by passive infrared sensors, set up at 28 sites during June 2012 – October 2013... We set camera height between 30 and 40 cm above the ground... The event of photographing an individual from the camera traps operating at a single camera station was considered to be an independent record/detection... the first capture of the individual within one minute time frame was considered as an independent record/detection"
Metadata
Sample: 3244
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-03-06 20:04:46
Modified: 2020-01-14 16:40:31
Abundance distribution
20 species
1 singleton
total count 1354
standardised richness: 15.3
Fisher's α: 3.327
geometric series k: 0.7424
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8926
Shannon's H: 2.4890
Good's u: 0.9993
Register
Mungos mungo71.5 kg insectivore-carnivore
Philantomba monticola1044.3 kg frugivore-folivore
Equus quagga burchellii24100 kg grazer
"Equus burchelli"
Tragelaphus scriptus20531 kg browser-grazer
Potamochoerus larvatus2438 kg grazer-browser
Caracal caracal1512 kg carnivore
"Felis caracal"
Sylvicapra grimmia12513 kg browser-grazer
Canis lupus familiaris28743 kg carnivore
"Canis domesticus"
Felis catus52
Thryonomys swinderianus55.2 kg
Procavia capensis47 browser
Genetta tigrina1181.7 kg invertivore-carnivore
Herpestes ichneumon42.9 kg carnivore-insectivore
Hystrix africaeaustralis7115 kg browser
Cephalophus natalensis1 browser
Galerella sanguinea20465 g carnivore-insectivore
Otolemur crassicaudatus11
Chlorocebus pygerythrus97
Atilax paludinosus942.8 kg invertivore-carnivore
Ichneumia albicauda433.1 kg invertivore-carnivore