Rocky River
Basic information
Sample name: Rocky River

Reference: D. Muñoz, J. Kapfer, and C. Olfenbuttel. 2014. Do available products to mask human scent influence camera trap survey results?. Wildlife Biology 20(4):246-252 [ER 1725]
Geography
Country: United States

State: North Carolina


County: Chatham


Coordinate: 35.70° N, -79.27° W
Coordinate basis: based on political unit

Geography comments: "16.2 ha of privately owned land"
coordinate is based on Chatham County

Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 16.0

MAP: 1010.0

Habitat comments: "oak–hickory forest... mostly uninhabited with only scattered agriculture close by"
climate data are for the Duke Forest and are from Caldwell (1969, Am Midl Nat)

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals

Site area: 12.9

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 3354 captures or sightings

Years: 2011, 2012

Days: 210

Nets or traps: 8

Camera type: unclear

Cameras paired: no

Sampling comments: "We randomly applied one of two treatments, ‘scent unmasked’ or ‘scent masked’ , to each of the eight cameras... Camera traps were placed semi-randomly" within the site; the study "ran from September 2011 to the beginning of March 2012, with each camera simultaneously in operation for 210 trap-nights"

Metadata
Sample number: 1923

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-13 20:50:47

Modified: 2016-12-14 10:40:56

Abundance distribution
10 species
1 singleton
total count 3354
geometric series index: 12.8
Fisher's α: 1.269
geometric series k: 0.4461
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6895
Shannon's H: 1.3020
Good's u: 0.9997
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Canis latrans912 kg carnivore-insectivore
Castor canadensis311 kg
Didelphis virginiana2511.1 kg insectivore-carnivore
Lynx rufus19.0 kg carnivore
Mephitis mephitis21.5 kg carnivore-insectivore
Odocoileus virginianus97175 kg herbivore
Procyon lotor6685.5 kg carnivore-granivore
Sciurus carolinensis1428519 g frugivore
Sylvilagus floridanus161.1 kg herbivore
Urocyon cinereoargenteus54.1 kg frugivore-carnivore