Mudumalai Tiger Reserve
Basic information
Sample name: Mudumalai Tiger Reserve

Reference: T. Ramesh, R. Kalle, K. Sankar, and Q. Qureshi. 2015. Role of body size in activity budgets of mammals in the Western Ghats of India. Journal of Tropical Ecology 31(4):315-323 [ER 1746]
Geography
Country: India

State: Tamil Nadu



Coordinate: 11° 37' 30" N, 76° 33' 30" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text as range

Geography comments: "at the junction of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala states"
altitude 960 to 1266 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Protection: wildlife protected area

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 35.0

CMT: 8.0

MAP: 1500.0

Habitat comments: "deciduous (DD), semi-evergreen (SE) and dry thorn (DT) forests"
MAP 1000 to 2000 m (varies spatially)

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

Site area: 18700

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 11267 captures or sightings

Years: 2008 - 2010

Nets or traps: 40

Net or trap nights: 7200

Camera type: analog

Cameras paired: yes

Trap spacing: 1.8

Sampling comments: "The present study was carried out in an intensive study area of 187 km2... Camera-trap data for our study were collected between November and April during 2008, 2009 and 2010... Cameras were distributed uniformly across the sites every 1.8 km... Each station comprised a pair of passive infrared analogue camera traps DeerCamR DC300... we had 20 trap stations in deciduous forest, and 17 and 13 traps in semi-evergreen and dry thorn forests respectively"

Metadata
Sample number: 1946

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-19 21:26:56

Modified: 2016-01-19 10:26:56

Abundance distribution
26 species
0 singletons
total count 11267
geometric series index: 26.9
Fisher's α: 3.181
geometric series k: 0.7549
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8440
Shannon's H: 2.3274
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Panthera tigris267168 kg carnivore
Panthera pardus33133 kg carnivore
Cuon alpinus17514 kg carnivore
Hyaena hyaena2230 kg carnivore-insectivore
Melursus ursinus21367 kg insectivore-frugivore
Elephas maximus33893711 kg grazer-browser
Bos gaurus931481 kg
Cervus unicolor645100 kg grazer-browser
"Rusa unicolor"
Axis axis234040 kg browser-grazer
Sus scrofa29754 kg herbivore
Muntiacus sp.138
"Muntiacus muntjak": most likely M. malabaricus based on the geographic location, but possibly M. vaginalis
Tetracerus quadricornis8
Felis chaus475.3 kg carnivore
Prionailurus rubiginosus7
Prionailurus bengalensis33.4 kg carnivore
Urva vitticolla117
"Herpestes vitticollis"
Urva edwardsii28
"Herpestes edwardsii"
Urva smithii61
"Herpestes smithii"
Viverricula indica1253.0 kg invertivore-carnivore
Paradoxurus hermaphroditus302.4 kg frugivore-insectivore
Paradoxurus jerdoni12 frugivore-insectivore
Semnopithecus priam41910.0 kg
"Semnopithecus entellus": see Nag et al. 2011
Macaca radiata1764.8 kg browser
Moschiola indica153
"Moschiola meminna"
Lepus nigricollis811
Hystrix indica52213 kg browser