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: suburban
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: 2019-03-06 21:40:32
Abundance distribution
20 species
1 singleton
total count 1354
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 mungo | 7 | 1.5 kg insectivore-carnivore |
| Philantomba monticola | 104 | 4.5 kg frugivore-folivore |
| Equus quagga burchellii | 24 | 100 kg grazer |
| "Equus burchelli" | ||
| Tragelaphus scriptus | 205 | 31 kg browser-grazer |
| Potamochoerus larvatus | 24 | 38 kg grazer-browser |
| Caracal caracal | 15 | 12 kg carnivore |
| "Felis caracal" | ||
| Sylvicapra grimmia | 125 | 13 kg browser-grazer |
| Canis lupus familiaris | 287 | 44 kg carnivore |
| "Canis domesticus" | ||
| Felis catus | 52 | |
| Thryonomys swinderianus | 5 | 5.2 kg |
| Procavia capensis | 47 | browser |
| Genetta tigrina | 118 | 1.8 kg invertivore-carnivore |
| Herpestes ichneumon | 4 | 2.9 kg carnivore-insectivore |
| Hystrix africaeaustralis | 71 | 15 kg browser |
| Cephalophus natalensis | 1 | browser |
| Galerella sanguinea | 20 | carnivore-insectivore |
| Otolemur crassicaudatus | 11 | |
| Chlorocebus pygerythrus | 97 | |
| Atilax paludinosus | 94 | 2.8 kg invertivore-carnivore |
| Ichneumia albicauda | 43 | 3.1 kg invertivore-carnivore |