Bull Neck Swamp Research Forest
Basic information
Sample name: Bull Neck Swamp Research Forest
Reference: A. P. Rockhill, R. Sollman, R. A. Powell, and C. S. DePerno. 2016. A comparison of survey techniques for medium- to large-sized mammals in forested wetlands. Southeastern Naturalist 15(1):175-187 [ER 3332]
Geography
Country: United States
State: North Carolina
Coordinate: 35° 57' 30" N, 76° 25' 30" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text as range
Geography comments: "a 25-km2 wetland located on the south side of Albemarle Sound in eastern North Carolina... owned by North Carolina State University"
Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest
Protection: unprotected
Substrate: ground surface
Disturbance: recent fire,hunting,selective logging
WMT: 21.7
CMT: 10.4
MAP: 1265.0
Habitat comments: a "working forest with active, small-scale timber harvests, prescribed by burning, and hunting... a forested wetland with secondary and tertiary dirt roads bordered by canals and has 5 land-cover types: non-riverine swamp forest, peatland Chamaecyparis thyoides L. (Atlantic White-cedar) forest, mesic mixed-hardwood forest, tidal cypress–gum swamp, and tidal freshwater marsh. Based on 50-year climate records, monthly mean temperatures ranged from 10.4 ºC to 21.7 ºC and rainfall averaged 126.5 cm per year"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals
Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras
Sample size: 653 captures or sightings
Years: 2007
Days: 92
Seasons: summer
Nets or traps: 9
Camera type: digital
Cameras paired: no
Trap spacing: 2.6
Sampling comments: there was "a grid of 2.6-km2 cells... We assigned to each cell (n = 9) 2 scent stations, 1 camera station, and 1 predator-calling station... We placed 1 digital camera (Capture 3.0; Cuddeback Digital, DePere, WI) equipped with an infrared sensor triggered by temperature and movement at 9 of the 18 scent stations... data presented are from June, July, and August of 2007" (presumably meaning there were 92 trap-nights per camera)
Metadata
Sample number: 3702
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2020-10-29 22:01:44
Modified: 2020-10-29 11:01:44
Abundance distribution
12 species
4 singletons
total count 653
geometric series index: 19.1
Fisher's α: 2.087
geometric series k: 0.5790
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5665
Shannon's H: 1.2524
Good's u: 0.9939
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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