Between George and Karatara
Basic information
Sample name: Between George and Karatara

Reference: A. Braczkowski, L. Watson, D. Coulson, and R. Randall. 2012. Diet of leopards in the southern Cape, South Africa. African Journal of Ecology 50(3):377-380 [ER 1785]
Geography
Country: South Africa

State: Western Cape



Coordinate: 33° 56' 0" S, 22° 38' 30" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "in a 320-km2 area between George (S 33°58′, E 22°27′) and Karatara (S 33°54′, E 22°50′), on the narrow coastal plateau of the southern Cape"
coordinate is the average of the two stated values
elevation 150 to 260 m

Environment
Habitat: Mediterranean woodland

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: grazing

MAT: 16.2

MAP: 965.0

Habitat comments: "The climate is Mediterranean with a mean annual rainfall of 700–1230 mm... Mountain fynbos dominates the slopes of the Outeniqua mountains... Afrotemperate forest is found on the coastal plateau... and forms part of the largest forest complex in southern Africa but is interspersed with pine plantations and pastureland, mainly for cattle Bos taurus. The plateau contains a number of towns and rural settlements"
MAP is stated in the text; MAT is for the Knysna Forest and is from Seydack and Bigalke (1992, Oecologia)

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates

Focal species: Panthera pardus

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 711 captures or sightings

Years: 2008 - 2010

Nets or traps: 21

Net or trap nights: 1026

Camera type: unclear

Cameras paired: unclear

Trap spacing: 2.9

Sampling comments: the study used "fourteen digital camera-traps rotated across 21 locations (2008–2010). Cameras were positioned at least 1 km apart (mean = 2.9, range = 1.1–12.27) alongside animal trails (38%) and dirt roads (62%), in three of the four major habitat types (i.e. forest = 65%, plantation = 21% and pastureland = 14%)"

Metadata
Sample number: 1992

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-31 18:01:51

Modified: 2016-12-17 00:07:30

Abundance distribution
16 species
1 singleton
total count 711
geometric series index: 19.3
Fisher's α: 2.907
geometric series k: 0.7138
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8611
Shannon's H: 2.2133
Good's u: 0.9986
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Bos taurus157337 kg
Tragelaphus scriptus15431 kg browser-grazer
Hystrix africaeaustralis8915 kg browser
Papio hamadryas7712 kg
Panthera pardus4633 kg carnivore
Canis lupus familiaris4243 kg carnivore
"Canis familiaris"
Caracal caracal3912 kg carnivore
Genetta tigrina341.7 kg invertivore-carnivore
Mellivora capensis247.7 kg carnivore-invertivore
Potamochoerus larvatus2438 kg grazer-browser
Chlorocebus pygerythrus123.5 kg
"Cercopithecus pygerythrus"
Philantomba monticola44.3 kg frugivore-folivore
Herpestes pulverulentus3787 g carnivore-insectivore
"Galerella pulverulenta"
Herpestes ichneumon32.9 kg carnivore-insectivore
Raphicerus melanotis29.1 kg
Atilax paludinosus12.8 kg invertivore-carnivore