Patharia Hill
Basic information
Sample name: Patharia Hill

Sample aka: Patharia Hill Reserve Forest

Reference: H. A. Rahman, K. P. McCarthy, J. L. McCarthy, and M. M. Faisal. 2021. Application of Multi-Species Occupancy Modeling to assess mammal diversity in northeast Bangladesh. Global Ecology and Conservation 25:e01385 [ER 3486]
Geography
Country: Bangladesh


Coordinate: 24° 35' N, 92° 15' E
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Geography comments: Patharia Hill is a ∼60 km2 Forest Reserve located in northeastern Bangladesh
"The topography is hilly with elevations ranging from 50 to 300 m"

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: fragment

Protection: unprotected

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 32.0

CMT: 9.0

MAP: 3334.0

Habitat comments: "Northeastern Bangladesh ... once harboured a diverse array of forest types, from tropical evergreen, to mixed and/or semi-evergreen forest"
"The landscape is now heavily fragmented, and the remaining forest is mostly confined to ten patches varying in size from 10 to 100 km2"
"Remaining forests are mostly of three types: semi-evergreen hill forest, shrubs, or mixed bamboo forest"
"Annual temperature ranges from 32 °C (August–October) to 9 °C (January), and nearly 80% of the annual average rainfall (3334 mm) occurs between May and October"
"Although designated a "Reserve Forest", Patharia Hill is not officially protected"

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

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 104 captures or sightings

Years: 2014

Days: 48

Seasons: wet or monsoon

Nets or traps: 10

Net or trap nights: 311

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Trap spacing: 1.1

Sampling comments: "At each station, we deployed a single camera trap (Bushnell Trophy Cam HD™)"
"We set trap stations approximately 1.1 km apart opportunistically throughout the forest fragment"
"We mounted each camera to a tree, approximately 25-30 cm above the ground, with metal chain, and inside a theft-proof box made of steel"
"To maximize the capture probability of felids, we used scent-based lures, randomly alternating between either Calvin Klein Obsession for Men, or chicken body parts"
"In some locations we also used an additional visual attractant (a chicken feather)"
"Each camera was active for 24 h per day and programmed to take two photos per trigger event, with a 15s delay before a subsequent trigger event could occur"

Metadata
Sample number: 3825

Contributor: Benjamin Carter

Enterer: Benjamin Carter

Created: 2021-06-18 12:46:50

Modified: 2021-06-19 01:30:24

Abundance distribution
15 species
4 singletons
total count 104
extrapolated richness: 25.2
Fisher's α: 4.809
geometric series k: 0.8046
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8753
Shannon's H: 2.3030
Good's u: 0.9617
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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