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St. Brieux (spring 2012)
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Basic information
Sample name: St. Brieux (spring 2012)

Reference: P. O'Brien, E. Vander Wal, E. L. Koen, C. D. Brown, J. Guy, F. M. van Beest, and R. K. Brook. 2019. Understanding habitat co-occurrence and the potential for competition between native mammals and invasive wild pigs (Sus scrofa) at the northern edge of their range. Canadian Journal of Zoology 97:537-546 [ER 3343]
Geography
Country: Canada

State: Saskatchewan


Coordinate: 52° 37' N, 104° 51' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "275 km2... near the town of St. Brieux"

Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Protection: unprotected

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: agriculture,grazing

Habitat comments: "part of a broad transition zone between the Prairie and the Boreal Plains ecozones... referred to as the Aspen Parkland Ecoregion... consists of a mix of annual cropland and perennial forage farmland, cattle grazing lands, native deciduous aspen forest, grassland, and wetland"
a plurality of sites are within forest

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

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 314 captures or sightings

Years: 2012

Days: 92

Seasons: spring

Nets or traps: 17

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Sampling comments: "We deployed 17 Hyperfire 900 camera units (Reconyx Inc., Holmen, Wisconsin, USA) from December 2011 to June 2013 in a stratified-random design. We stratified habitats into four dominant types: deciduous forest (n = 6 camera units), grassland (n = 3 camera units), cropland (n = 3 camera units), and wetland (n = 5 camera units)... We considered all photo series that were uninterrupted for up to 5 min as single events"
"winter" is assumed to mean all of March, April, and May, i.e., 92 days
indeterminate rodents, small mustelids, and birds are also listed in the table

Metadata
Sample number: 3712

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2020-11-01 09:20:38

Modified: 2020-10-31 22:20:38

Abundance distribution
12 species
0 singletons
total count 314
extrapolated richness: 13.5
Fisher's α: 2.473
geometric series k: 0.6970
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8152
Shannon's H: 2.0137
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Sus scrofa1654 kg herbivore
Odocoileus virginianus10675 kg herbivore
Alces alces20421 kg herbivore
Canis latrans3812 kg carnivore-insectivore
Odocoileus hemionus1065 kg browser
Cervus canadensis5329 kg browser-grazer
Lepus americanus621.4 kg browser
Vulpes vulpes75.3 kg carnivore-insectivore
Procyon lotor145.5 kg carnivore-granivore
Erethizon dorsatum29.9 kg herbivore
Mephitis mephitis211.5 kg carnivore-insectivore
Homo sapiens1364 kg
Current reference: Huckleberry et al. 2001 (ER 3215)