Xalapa
Basic information
Sample name: Xalapa

Reference: I. Mella-Méndez, R. Flores-Peredo, J. Pérez-Torres, S. Hernândez-Gonzâlez, D. U. Gonzâlez-Uribe, and B. S. Bolívar-Cimé. 2019. Activity patterns and temporal niche partitioning of dogs and medium-sized wild mammals in urban parks of Xalapa, Mexico. Urban Ecosystems 22:1061-1070 [ER 3254]
Geography
Country: Mexico

State: Veracruz



Coordinate: 19° 32' 24" N, 96° 55' 39" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: elevation of the five parks ranges from 1274 to 1580 m with a median of 1352

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: inhabited area

Protection: other protected area

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 18.0

MAP: 1350.0

Habitat comments: "The climate is temperate humid C (fm) with an annual average temperature of 18 ºC and 1100-1600 mm of average annual precipitation... The dominant vegetation type is the mountain cloud forest"

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

Sites: 5

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 946 captures or sightings

Years: 2014

Nets or traps: 60

Net or trap nights: 720

Trap spacing: 0.135

Sampling comments: "Inside the city, we chose five representative urban parks" with "recreational activities such as walking, running and cycling... From March to August 2014 we established 12 camera trap stations in each of the five urban parks... We randomly set six camera traps (Spy Game Moultrie® M990i), which remained active two consecutive days, twice a month in each park... The Inter-camera distance was ranged between 70 and 200 m"
"independent records" were defined as photographs separated by at least 10 minutes

Metadata
Sample number: 3593

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2020-01-14 20:07:44

Modified: 2020-01-14 09:07:44

Abundance distribution
12 species
2 singletons
total count 946
geometric series index: 15.3
Fisher's α: 1.938
geometric series k: 0.5727
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7203
Shannon's H: 1.6872
Good's u: 0.9979
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Didelphis marsupialis4601.1 kg insectivore-carnivore
Philander opossum65451 g
Dasypus novemcinctus904.4 kg invertivore
Urocyon cinereoargenteus634.1 kg frugivore-carnivore
Canis lupus familiaris10543 kg carnivore
"Canis familiaris"
Neogale frenata3144 g carnivore
"Mustela frenata"
Bassariscus astutus98949 g insectivore-frugivore
Procyon lotor185.5 kg carnivore-granivore
Sciurus aureogaster33440 g
Heterogeomys hispidus1
"Orthogeomys hispidus"
Dasyprocta mexicana1
Sylvilagus floridanus91.1 kg herbivore