Davis Mountain Preserve
Basic information
Sample name: Davis Mountain Preserve

Reference: C. C. Dennison, P. M. Harveson, and L. A. Harveson. 2016. Assessing habitat relationships of mountain lions and their prey in the Davis Mountains, Texas. Southwestern Naturalist 61(1):18-27 [ER 3010]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Texas



Coordinate: 30° 38' N, 104° 10' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: "on 34,200 ha at the heart of the Davis Mountains on The Nature Conservancy’s Davis Mountain Preserve and two adjacent private ranches" (coordinate based on Davis Mountains)
elevation 1468 to 2460 m

Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Protection: nature reserve

Substrate: ground surface

MAP: 510.0

Habitat comments: almost all sites are in woodlands dominated by pine, juniper, and oak

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,ungulates,birds

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 2136 captures or sightings

Years: 2012, 2013

Seasons: winter,spring,summer,autumn

Nets or traps: 38

Net or trap nights: 7846

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: yes

Trap spacing: 2.5

Sampling comments: "We placed paired trail cameras at 38 locations... a grid was overlaid on the study area, with each grid square encompassing 9 km2. We placed one camera pair in each grid square. Camera locations were placed an average of 2–3 km apart... We used a variety of trail camera models" including TrophyCam, Moutrie, Stealth Cam, Rogue IR, and Wildview Infrared Extreme models; "Cameras were activated at each site for a minimum of 3 months between June 2012 and March 2013... Any detections of the same species of animal at the same site within 1 h of each other were considered to be photos of the same individual(s)"

Metadata
Sample number: 3239

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-03-03 19:35:55

Modified: 2019-03-03 08:42:52

Abundance distribution
18 species
3 singletons
total count 2136
geometric series index: 22.9
Fisher's α: 2.696
geometric series k: 0.6852
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8461
Shannon's H: 2.1198
Good's u: 0.9986
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Puma concolor5449 kg carnivore
Odocoileus hemionus11565 kg browser
Odocoileus virginianus10975 kg herbivore
Sus scrofa61854 kg herbivore
Cervus canadensis303170 kg browser-grazer
"Cervus elaphus"
Dicotyles tajacu24421 kg browser
"Pecari tajacu"
Lynx rufus239.0 kg carnivore
Canis latrans27512 kg carnivore-insectivore
Ammotragus lervia680 kg
Cathartes aura110.7 g carnivore
Coragyps atratus140.5 g carnivore
Buteo jamaicensis130.4 g carnivore
Urocyon cinereoargenteus2054.1 kg frugivore-carnivore
Bassariscus astutus7949 g insectivore-frugivore
Meleagris gallopavo157.8 kg omnivore
Bubo virginianus434.0 g carnivore
Bos taurus148337 kg
Equus ferus caballus7422 kg
"horse"