Waterberg Plateau Park (surrounding flatlands)
Basic information
Sample name: Waterberg Plateau Park (surrounding flatlands)
Reference: A. B. Stein, T. K. Fuller, and L. L. Marker. 2008. Opportunistic use of camera traps to assess habitat-specific mammal and bird diversity in northcentral Namibia. Biodiversity and Conservation 17(14):3579-3587 [ER 1705]
Geography
Country: Namibia
Coordinate: -20.46133° S, 17.20812° E
Latlng basis: stated in text
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna
Substrate: ground surface
Disturbance: grazing, hunting
MAT: 21.0
WMT: 24.0
CMT: 16.0
MAP: 532.0
Habitat comments: "The farmlands surrounding the Park are mostly managed for livestock production and also support populations of wildlife for game farming, trophy hunting, and conservation... The area is dominated by Acacia mellifera and Dichrostachys cinerea bush, characterized as the thornveld biome"
MAP 400 to 500 mm
MAP 400 to 500 mm
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, primates, rodents, ungulates, other large mammals, other small mammals, birds
Sampling methods: no design, automatic cameras
Sample size: 383 captures or sightings
Years: 2006
Nets or traps: 4
Net or trap nights: 200
Camera type: analog
Cameras paired: yes
Trap spacing: 5.4
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: four "motion-sensor camera stations" were positioned "between June and October 2006... Each station consisted of two motion-sensor cameras secured to trees at a height of 60 cm, pointing towards the path, but offset from each other at >0.5 m... The minimum distance between nearest stations was 3.0 km and the maximum distance was 7.8 km"
Metadata
Sample no: 1897
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2016-01-09 19:44:55
Modified: 2016-12-14 21:56:35
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
35 species
6 singletons
total count 383
geometric series index: 52.2
Fisher's α: 9.372
geometric series k: 0.8845
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9318
Shannon's H: 3.011
Good's u: 0.9844
Register
| Bos taurus (cow) | 5 | |
| Equus africanus asinus (African wild ass) | 2 | |
| Tragelaphus strepsiceros (greater kudu) | 17 | 189.0 kg |
| Oryx gazella (gemsbok) | 10 | 195.0 kg |
| Sylvicapra grimmia (common duiker) | 5 | 13.0 kg |
| Madoqua kirkii (Kirk's dik-dik) | 2 | 4.8 kg |
| Taurotragus oryx (common eland) | 5 | |
| Phacochoerus africanus (common warthog) | 25 | 82.0 kg |
| "Phacochoerus aethiopicus" | ||
| Panthera pardus (leopard) | 19 | |
| Parahyaena brunnea (brown hyena) | 8 | |
| "Hyaena brunnea" | ||
| Caracal caracal (caracal) | 3 | |
| "Felis caracal" | ||
| Felis lybica (African wildcat) | 20 | 4.5 kg |
| Genetta genetta | 19 | 1.7 kg |
| Acinonyx jubatus (cheetah) | 1 | 42.0 kg |
| Mellivora capensis (honey badger) | 2 | 7.7 kg |
| Canis mesomelas (black-backed jackal) | 8 | 7.9 kg |
| Herpestes sanguineus | 28 | |
| Mungos mungo | 3 | 1.5 kg |
| Vulpes chama (Cape fox) | 2 | 2.7 kg |
| Otocyon megalotis (bat-eared fox) | 5 | 3.2 kg |
| Ictonyx striatus (striped polecat) | 2 | 753.0 g |
| Papio cynocephalus (yellow baboon) | 21 | 16.0 kg |
| Lepus saxatilis | 27 | 2.0 kg |
| Orycteropus afer (aardvark) | 4 | 40.0 kg |
| Pedetes capensis | 6 | 2.4 kg |
| Hystrix africaeaustralis | 28 | 15.0 kg |
| Numida meleagris | 65 | 1.3 kg |
| Pternistis adspersus | 20 | |
| Lophotis ruficrista | 12 | |
| Ardeotis kori | 1 | 104.0 g |
| Tockus leucomelas | 4 | 211.0 g |
| Streptopelia capicola | 1 | 142.0 g |
| Plocepasser mahali | 1 | 6.3 g |
| Bubo africanus | 1 | |
| Lamprotornis nitens | 1 | |