Havelland
Basic information
Sample name: Havelland

Reference: T. Rottstock, T. Göttert, and U. Zeller. 2020. Relatively undisturbed African savannas - an important reference for assessing wildlife responses to livestock grazing systems in European rangelands. Global Ecology and Conservation 23:e01124 [ER 3426]
Geography
Country: Germany

State: Brandenburg



Coordinate: 52.537601° N, 12.5741° E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "The study area within Westhavelland Nature Park (Havelland) is located about 100 km west of Berlin"

Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Altered habitat: pasture

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: grazing

MAT: 9.3

MAP: 589.0

Habitat comments: "The landscape developed at the end of the Weichselian Glaciation and is characterized by a mosaic of forests, freshwater bodies, arable land and grassland"
"The mean annual temperature measures about 9.3 °C and the average annual perception is 589 mm (distributed all over the year, with most rainfall during summer)"
"Grazing of livestock represents a significant management tool"
"Grazing systems can be distinguished between permanent and rotational grazing systems"

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,ungulates

Sampling methods: line transect,automatic cameras

Sample size: 605 captures or sightings

Years: 2017

Days: 65

Nets or traps: 20

Net or trap nights: 770

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Trap spacing: 0.05

Sampling comments: "We deployed commercially available digital camera traps (Stealth Cam® G45NG PRO HD) with infrared sensor and infrared flash ... 20 of these camera traps were attached to wooden vegetation at about 1 m height"
"Camera traps were established in form of transects with uniform spacing"
"The distances between camera traps ... were identical"
"During period of data collection, camera traps operated 24 h per day, and took bursts of five photos with a delay of 30 s between trigger activations"
"Data was collected on a weekly basis"

Within the study area, comparisons were made between the data collected when livestock was present versus when livestock was absent. The register below corresponds to the data collected when livestock was absent.

Metadata
Sample number: 3808

Contributor: Benjamin Carter

Enterer: Benjamin Carter

Created: 2021-06-12 12:26:55

Modified: 2021-06-13 23:44:27

Abundance distribution
6 species
1 singleton
total count 605
geometric series index: 7.5
Fisher's α: 0.925
geometric series k: 0.2966
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4507
Shannon's H: 0.9169
Good's u: 0.9983
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Cervus elaphus33142 kg browser-grazer
Capreolus capreolus43622 kg browser
Sus scrofa3754 kg herbivore
Meles meles810 kg invertivore-herbivore
Procyon lotor15.5 kg carnivore-granivore
Vulpes vulpes905.3 kg carnivore-insectivore