Nile Delta
Basic information
Sample name: Nile Delta

Sample aka: Murchison Falls Conservation Area

Reference: R. K. Fuda, S. J. Ryan, J. B. Cohen, J. Hartter, and J. L. Frair. 2018. Assessing the impacts of oil exploration and restoration on mammals in Murchison Falls Conservation Area, Uganda. African Journal of Ecology 56:804-817 [ER 3306]
Geography
Country: Uganda


Coordinate: 2° 11' N, 31° 47' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: cameras were within Murchison Falls National Park, itself within the Murchison Falls Conservation Area
coordinate based on Murchison Falls National Park
elevation 619 to 1271 m

Environment
Habitat: boreal forest/taiga

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 29.0

CMT: 22.0

MAP: 1300.0

Habitat comments: "temperature ranges from 22 to 29ยบ C... Average annual rainfall ranges from 1,100 to 1,500 mm... Major vegetation types... include grassland, woodland and swamps"
area was disturbed by oil drilling between 2008 and 2014

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

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 1756 captures or sightings

Years: 2014

Nets or traps: 15

Net or trap nights: 1089

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Trap spacing: 2

Sampling comments: "From May to August 2014, we surveyed the Nile Delta area of MFCA and the area to the east using 15 infrared motion‐triggered camera traps... e moved cameras twice during the study period creating a total of 45 sites with 15 sites each within three disturbance strata. During each subsurvey period, cameras were placed at five sites in each stratum. All sites were >2 km apart"

Metadata
Sample number: 3683

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2020-10-21 08:10:26

Modified: 2020-10-20 21:10:26

Abundance distribution
27 species
2 singletons
total count 1756
extrapolated richness: 34.2
Fisher's α: 4.528
geometric series k: 0.8036
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9008
Shannon's H: 2.5524
Good's u: 0.9989
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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