Waterberg Plateau Park
Basic information
Sample name: Waterberg Plateau Park
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
MAT: 21.0
WMT: 24.0
CMT: 16.0
MAP: 532.0
Habitat comments: there are "four different vegetation zones on top of the plateau: fountain plant communities, rocky outcrop communities, bush savanna, and mixed tree and shrub woodland"
climate data are for Grootfontein and are from Mileusnic et al. (2014, Journal of Geochemical Exploration)
climate data are for Grootfontein and are from Mileusnic et al. (2014, Journal of Geochemical Exploration)
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, primates, rodents, ungulates, other large mammals, other small mammals, birds
Sampling methods: no design, automatic cameras
Sample size: 351 captures or sightings
Years: 2006
Nets or traps: 11
Net or trap nights: 545
Camera type: analog
Cameras paired: yes
Trap spacing: 5.4
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: 11 "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: 1899
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2016-01-09 20:03:13
Modified: 2016-12-14 21:56:22
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
41 species
9 singletons
total count 351
geometric series index: 64.2
Fisher's α: 12.035
geometric series k: 0.9163
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9502
Shannon's H: 3.2617
Good's u: 0.9744
Register
| Ceratotherium simum (white rhinoceros) | 16 | 1479.0 kg |
| Diceros bicornis (black rhinoceros) | 18 | |
| Giraffa camelopardalis (northern giraffe) | 27 | 942.0 kg |
| Syncerus caffer (African buffalo) | 10 | 548.0 kg |
| Hippotragus niger (sable) | 2 | 177.0 kg |
| Hippotragus equinus (roan) | 10 | 246.0 kg |
| Tragelaphus strepsiceros (greater kudu) | 12 | 189.0 kg |
| Oryx gazella (gemsbok) | 9 | 195.0 kg |
| Sylvicapra grimmia (common duiker) | 6 | 13.0 kg |
| Taurotragus oryx (common eland) | 28 | |
| Alcelaphus buselaphus (hartebeest) | 2 | |
| Phacochoerus africanus (common warthog) | 6 | 82.0 kg |
| "Phacochoerus aethiopicus" | ||
| Raphicerus campestris (steenbok) | 1 | 9.7 kg |
| Panthera pardus (leopard) | 12 | |
| Parahyaena brunnea (brown hyena) | 11 | |
| "Hyaena brunnea" | ||
| Caracal caracal (caracal) | 9 | |
| "Felis caracal" | ||
| Felis lybica (African wildcat) | 7 | 4.5 kg |
| Genetta genetta | 33 | 1.7 kg |
| Mellivora capensis (honey badger) | 7 | 7.7 kg |
| Canis mesomelas (black-backed jackal) | 5 | 7.9 kg |
| Herpestes sanguineus | 5 | |
| Mungos mungo | 3 | 1.5 kg |
| Proteles cristatus (aardwolf) | 4 | |
| "Proteles cristata" | ||
| Vulpes chama (Cape fox) | 2 | 2.7 kg |
| Otocyon megalotis (bat-eared fox) | 1 | 3.2 kg |
| Ictonyx striatus (striped polecat) | 5 | 753.0 g |
| Papio cynocephalus (yellow baboon) | 28 | 16.0 kg |
| Lepus saxatilis | 13 | 2.0 kg |
| Orycteropus afer (aardvark) | 6 | 40.0 kg |
| Hystrix africaeaustralis | 28 | 15.0 kg |
| Numida meleagris | 7 | 1.3 kg |
| Pternistis adspersus | 2 | |
| Lophotis ruficrista | 7 | |
| Tockus leucomelas | 1 | 211.0 g |
| Streptopelia capicola | 2 | 142.0 g |
| Burhinus capensis | 1 | 423.0 g |
| Lamprotornis nitens | 1 | |
| Peliperdix coqui | 1 | |
| Pycnonotus nigricans | 1 | 30.8 g |
| Dendroperdix sephaena | 1 | |
| Monticola brevipes | 1 | 33.0 g |