Los Amigos Conservation Concession (2005)
Basic information
Sample name: Los Amigos Conservation Concession (2005)

Reference: M. W. Tobler, S. E. Carrillo-Percastegui, R. Leite Pitman, R. Mares, and G. Powell. 2008. An evaluation of camera traps for inventorying large and medium-sized terrestrial rainforest mammals. Animal Conservation 11(3):169-178 [ER 1703]
Geography
Country: Peru



Coordinate: 12° 33' 0" S, 70° 5' 30" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text as range

Geography comments: "About two-thirds of the study site were within the Los Amigos Conservation Concession... a 1400 km2 privately managed protected area, with the remainder falling within two active logging concessions"
coordinate is the midpoint of ranges stated in the text
elevation 250 to 320 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Protection: other protected area

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 24.0

MAP: 3000.0

Habitat comments: "mostly primary lowland Amazonian moist forest" with cameras placed "in terra firme and floodplain forests only"
there is "a marked dry season from June to September and a rainy season during the months of November through February"
MAP 2500 to 3500

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

Site area: 5000

Sampling methods: quadrat,automatic cameras

Sample size: 428 captures or sightings

Years: 2005

Days: 60

Seasons: dry,wet or monsoon

Nets or traps: 24

Net or trap nights: 1440

Camera type: analog

Cameras paired: yes

Sampling comments: the survey was "carried out from 14 September to 13 November 2005... at the end of the dry season and the beginning of the rainy season... 24 camera stations were set out in a 2 km grid along the study site’s trail system... covering an area of c. 50 km2... Each camera station included paired cameras facing one another on respective sides of a trail... We used Deercam... passive infrared cameras... Cameras were operating 24h a day and were checked every 5 days to replace film and batteries if necessary"

Metadata
Sample number: 1894

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-09 16:05:54

Modified: 2018-06-30 11:18:19

Abundance distribution
25 species
3 singletons
total count 428
geometric series index: 34.4
Fisher's α: 5.792
geometric series k: 0.8272
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8947
Shannon's H: 2.5925
Good's u: 0.9930
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Didelphis marsupialis211.1 kg insectivore-carnivore
Tamandua tetradactyla14.8 kg insectivore
Dasypus kappleri29.9 kg invertivore-carnivore
Dasypus novemcinctus14.4 kg invertivore
Priodontes maximus538 kg insectivore
Atelocynus microtis4
Nasua nasua24.4 kg invertivore-frugivore
Eira barbara34.3 kg frugivore-carnivore
Herpailurus yagouaroundi15.4 kg carnivore
"Puma yagouaroundi"
Leopardus pardalis158.4 kg carnivore
Leopardus wiedii22.6 kg carnivore
Panthera onca1465 kg carnivore
Puma concolor1449 kg carnivore
Tapirus terrestris39198 kg browser-frugivore
Mazama americana826 kg frugivore-browser
Mazama gouazoubira1714 kg frugivore-browser
Tayassu pecari9529 kg browser
Dicotyles tajacu2321 kg browser
"Pecari tajacu"
Dasyprocta punctata502.7 kg frugivore
Myoprocta acouchy2984 g frugivore
Cuniculus paca147.4 kg frugivore
Crypturellus undulaus yapura4
Mitu tuberosa28 frugivore
Penelope jacquacu71.6 kg frugivore
Psophia leucoptera561.4 kg