Huasabas-Sahuaripa Region
Basic information
Sample name: Huasabas-Sahuaripa Region

Reference: G. P. Lorenzana Piña, R. A. Castillo Gamez, and C. A. López Gonzâlez. 2004. Distribution, habitat association, and activity patterns of medium and large-sized mammals of Sonora, Mexico. Natural Areas Journal 24(4):354-357 [ER 1789]
Geography
Country: Mexico

State: Sonora



Coordinate: 29° 29' N, 109° 16' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: "in east-central Sonora in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental Mountain Range" (apparently the same as the Huasabas-Sahuaripa region study area of López Gonzâlez and Lorenzana Piña 2002, Wild Earth; coordinate is the midpoint between Huasabas and Sahuaripa)
elevation 400 to 1000 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 20.0

MAP: 500.0

Habitat comments: "The climate is dry... Nearly 70% of the annual precipitation falls between July and September... The main vegetation types are sinaloan thornscrub (ST) and oak woodland (OW)" but there is also a "thornscrub-woodland ecotone (TW)"

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

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 350 captures or sightings

Years: 1999 - 2001

Net or trap nights: 2348

Camera type: analog

Cameras paired: no

Trap spacing: 3

Sampling comments: study used "35 mm Camtrakker camera traps connected to a passive infrared sensor... Sampling was carried out between July 1999 and August 2001. We conducted 16 separate sampling sessions... at 88 sampling sites... 51 in ST, 28 in OW and 9 in TW... in each session, we placed three to nine camera traps, separating them 1 to 5 km""

Metadata
Sample number: 1997

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-02-04 19:55:29

Modified: 2016-02-04 08:55:29

Abundance distribution
18 species
3 singletons
total count 350
geometric series index: 25.4
Fisher's α: 4.019
geometric series k: 0.7685
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8485
Shannon's H: 2.2015
Good's u: 0.9914
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Didelphis virginiana41.1 kg insectivore-carnivore
Canis latrans3712 kg carnivore-insectivore
Urocyon cinereoargenteus884.1 kg frugivore-carnivore
Leopardus pardalis38.4 kg carnivore
Lynx rufus139.0 kg carnivore
Puma concolor2649 kg carnivore
Panthera onca2065 kg carnivore
Conepatus leuconotus1
"Conepatus mesoleucus"
Spilogale putorius2633 g carnivore-invertivore
Taxidea taxus17.0 kg carnivore
Bassariscus astutus4949 g insectivore-frugivore
Nasua narica64.6 kg frugivore-invertivore
Procyon lotor15.5 kg carnivore-granivore
Dicotyles tajacu421 kg browser
"Pecari tajacu"
Odocoileus virginianus8175 kg herbivore
Otospermophilus variegatus5695 g
"Spermophilus variegatus"
Lepus alleni25
Sylvilagus floridanus291.1 kg herbivore