Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary (poor habitat area)
Basic information
Sample name: Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary (poor habitat area)
Reference: D. Pawar, H. P. Nelson, D. R. L. Pawar, and S. Khanwilkar. 2019. Estimating leopard Panthera pardus fusca (Mammalia: Carnivora: Felidae) abundance in Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary, Madhya Pradesh, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 11(5):13531-13544 [ER 3358]
Geography
Country: India
State: Madhya Pradesh
Coordinate: 25° 30' N, 74° 26' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "The 345km2 Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary, established in 1981, lies between -25.500ºN and 77.433ºE longitude... It extends over the districts of Sheopur and Morena... An area of 890km2 buffer zone was added to the sanctuary later"
this apparently means 25.5º N, not south
elevation 238 to 498 m
this apparently means 25.5º N, not south
elevation 238 to 498 m
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Protection: wildlife protected area
Substrate: ground surface
MAP: 760.0
Habitat comments: "within the Kathiawar-Gir dry deciduous forest eco-regions... A large population of feral cattle... also roam the forests" but the reserve is currently uninhabited
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals,birds
Focal species: Panthera pardus fusca
Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras
Sample size: 475 captures or sightings
Years: 2017
Nets or traps: 8
Net or trap nights: 90
Camera type: digital
Cameras paired: yes
Trap spacing: 1.875
Sampling comments: "The study was conducted over a 40-day period from 18 March to 26 April 2017 during the summer season" in two areas each of "15km2", one in "poor" and one in "good" habitat
the "good" area was sampled from 9 April to 27 April
"Sixteen trail cameras... Bushnell Trophy Cam HD Aggressor No-Glow... were used... The cameras were deployed in pairs... at a height of approximately 40cm... four to six metres apart... To minimise the possibility of double counting, an interval of at least 20 minutes was taken before recording the same object again... inter-camera distances during a six-day trapping session were between 1.25km and 2.5km... trapping was conducted over two survey periods of 18 days for each habitat"
counts are otherwise apparently just of photos without a further attempt to minimise double-counting
the abstract says there were 180 trap-nights: this apparently means 30 six-day trapping sessions in separate "observation blocks" that were each about 1 km2 in area, each block apparently having one trap, so there were 90 trap-nights in each habitat
the "good" area was sampled from 9 April to 27 April
"Sixteen trail cameras... Bushnell Trophy Cam HD Aggressor No-Glow... were used... The cameras were deployed in pairs... at a height of approximately 40cm... four to six metres apart... To minimise the possibility of double counting, an interval of at least 20 minutes was taken before recording the same object again... inter-camera distances during a six-day trapping session were between 1.25km and 2.5km... trapping was conducted over two survey periods of 18 days for each habitat"
counts are otherwise apparently just of photos without a further attempt to minimise double-counting
the abstract says there were 180 trap-nights: this apparently means 30 six-day trapping sessions in separate "observation blocks" that were each about 1 km2 in area, each block apparently having one trap, so there were 90 trap-nights in each habitat
Metadata
Sample number: 3721
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2020-11-07 15:06:26
Modified: 2020-11-07 04:06:26
Abundance distribution
23 species
3 singletons
total count 475
geometric series index: 31.1
Fisher's α: 5.050
geometric series k: 0.7986
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8483
Shannon's H: 2.3330
Good's u: 0.9937
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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| Panthera pardus | 1 | 33 kg carnivore |
| Bos taurus | 141 | 337 kg |
| Paradoxurus hermaphroditus | 7 | 2.4 kg frugivore-insectivore |
| Felis lybica ornata | 1 | 4.5 kg carnivore |
| Vulpes bengalensis | 18 | 2.9 kg |
| Boselaphus tragocamelus | 11 | 263 kg browser-grazer |
| Axis axis | 86 | 40 kg browser-grazer |
| Canis lupus familiaris | 1 | 43 kg carnivore |
| Tetracerus quadricornis | 5 | |
| Semnopithecus entellus | 63 | 10 kg folivore-frugivore |
| Mellivora capensis | 3 | 7.7 kg carnivore-invertivore |
| Sus scrofa | 20 | 54 kg herbivore |
| Hystrix indica | 9 | 13 kg browser |
| Lepus nigricollis | 3 | |
| Canis aureus | 24 | 9.9 kg carnivore-frugivore |
| Felis chaus | 20 | 5.3 kg carnivore |
| Macaca mulatta | 2 | 8.0 kg folivore-frugivore |
| Urva smithii | 3 | |
| "Herpestes smithii" | ||
| Cervus unicolor | 21 | 100 kg browser-grazer |
| "Rusa unicolor" | ||
| Melursus ursinus | 3 | 67 kg insectivore-frugivore |
| Viverricula indica | 10 | 3.0 kg invertivore-carnivore |
| Hyaena hyaena | 5 | 30 kg carnivore-insectivore |
| Pavo cristatus | 18 | 4.8 kg omnivore |