Salt Pond Mountain
Basic information
Sample name: Salt Pond Mountain
Sample aka: Mountain Lake Biological Station
Reference: M. J. Kelly and E. L. Holub. 2008. Camera trapping of carnivores: trap success among camera types and across species, and habitat selection by species, on Salt Pond Mountain, Giles County, Virginia. Northeastern Naturalist 15(2):249-262 [ER 1724]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Virginia
County: Giles
Coordinate: 37.376° N, -80.522° W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "around Mountain Lake Biological Station (MLBS) on Salt Pond Mountain... primarily within the Jefferson National Forest"
Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest
Protection: national/state forest
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 8.0
WMT: 19.0
CMT: -3.0
MAP: 1301.0
Habitat comments: "deciduous hardwood forest with stands of Pinus strobus L. (white pine), and Tsuga canadensis L. (Carr.) (eastern hemlock)"
climate data are for the Mountain Lake Biological Station and are from Corbin et al. (2003, Water, Air, and Soil Pollution)
climate data are for the Mountain Lake Biological Station and are from Corbin et al. (2003, Water, Air, and Soil Pollution)
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals,birds
Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras
Sample size: 344 captures or sightings
Years: 2005
Days: 72
Nets or traps: 15
Net or trap nights: 891
Camera type: both
Cameras paired: yes
Trap spacing: 1.25
Sampling comments: "15 camera stations, of which one was later moved... Trap sites were systematically spaced 1 to 1.5 km apart across the study site... We used both active and passive infrared-triggered cameras... We used the widely available film camera systems: the Trail-Master active (TM1550) system, and the passive systems DeerCam200 and CamTrakker; and one passive digital system, Reconyx (Recreational)... A total of nine TrailMasters, 15 DeerCams, two CamTrakkers and two Reconyx were dispersed among the trap sites... At 13 locations we placed two different camera systems on opposite sides of the trail to capture target animals from both sides of their body... Cameras operated from August 11 to October 22, 2005, for a 72-day trapping period"
Metadata
Sample number: 1921
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2016-01-13 20:31:56
Modified: 2018-06-30 10:59:40
Abundance distribution
13 species
3 singletons
total count 344
geometric series index: 18.6
Fisher's α: 2.672
geometric series k: 0.6458
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6559
Shannon's H: 1.5701
Good's u: 0.9913
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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Procyon lotor | 25 | 5.5 kg carnivore-granivore |
Ursus americanus | 17 | 115 kg browser-insectivore |
Lynx rufus | 13 | 9.0 kg carnivore |
Tamias striatus | 13 | 113 g frugivore-insectivore |
Meleagris gallopavo | 10 | 7.8 kg omnivore |
Canis latrans | 9 | 12 kg carnivore-insectivore |
Urocyon cinereoargenteus | 5 | 4.1 kg frugivore-carnivore |
Didelphis virginiana | 4 | 1.1 kg insectivore-carnivore |
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Accipiter striatus | 1 | 9.7 g carnivore |