This report summarizes the basic mammalian diversity information for Mountain Zebra National Park based on the Snapshot Safari project. This is a large-scale international camera trap network to study and monitor the diversity and ecological dynamics of southern and eastern African mammals (see Pardo et al 2021).

The project is coordinated in South Africa by Nelson by Mandela University’s Wildlife Ecology Lab. The images collected by the CTs (as much as thousands per site) are sent to the United States (University of Minnesota) to be processed via a citizen science platform (Zooniverse) and machine learning (a popular IT field that allows automatized recognition of elements in an image).

Survey effort

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General inventory

Number of observed species across the study area

Number of species detected at each camera site

Number of camera sites where species were detected

Number of events per station (not stantardized by effort)

Spatial distribution of species richness

Basic information per species

This table include information about Relative Abundance Index or capture frequencies standardized by effort at the grid level (RAI.Gral) and by each camera trap effort (RAImean), as well as number of sites occupied (Sites.Occ) and naive occupancy (Occ.Naive)

Common.Name Total.Cam.Sites Cam.Days Total.Count RAI.Gral RAImean RAI.sd Sites.Occ Occ.Naive
aardvarkantbear 19 3732 7 0.19 0.22 0.51 5 0.26
aardwolf 19 3732 36 0.96 0.97 2.20 5 0.26
baboon 19 3732 106 2.84 3.04 3.44 14 0.74
blesbok 19 3732 5 0.13 0.11 0.47 1 0.05
buffalo 19 3732 35 0.94 0.84 1.13 10 0.53
bushbuck 19 3732 3 0.08 0.05 0.16 2 0.11
bushpig 19 3732 3 0.08 0.14 0.55 2 0.11
caracal 19 3732 2 0.05 0.03 0.10 2 0.11
cheetah 19 3732 3 0.08 0.05 0.22 1 0.05
duikercommon 19 3732 43 1.15 1.50 3.37 5 0.26
eland 19 3732 52 1.39 1.86 2.85 13 0.68
foxbateared 19 3732 13 0.35 0.23 0.81 2 0.11
foxcape 19 3732 1 0.03 0.06 0.28 1 0.05
gemsbokoryx 19 3732 34 0.91 1.02 1.63 8 0.42
genetcommonsmallspotted 19 3732 9 0.24 0.31 0.76 5 0.26
hare 19 3732 44 1.18 2.50 7.33 9 0.47
harespring 19 3732 2 0.05 0.05 0.14 2 0.11
hartebeestred 19 3732 79 2.12 2.26 3.24 13 0.68
hyenabrown 19 3732 12 0.32 0.25 0.42 6 0.32
jackalblackbacked 19 3732 197 5.28 7.44 14.11 15 0.79
kudu 19 3732 180 4.82 7.99 10.44 16 0.84
lion 19 3732 22 0.59 0.49 1.16 5 0.26
mongooseyellow 19 3732 2 0.05 0.05 0.21 1 0.05
monkeyvervet 19 3732 110 2.95 3.84 7.68 10 0.53
porcupine 19 3732 53 1.42 1.65 2.39 11 0.58
reedbuckmountain 19 3732 2 0.05 0.13 0.48 2 0.11
rhebokgrey 19 3732 20 0.54 2.71 9.25 4 0.21
rhinocerosblack 19 3732 29 0.78 1.14 2.34 10 0.53
springbok 19 3732 147 3.94 3.25 5.75 9 0.47
steenbok 19 3732 4 0.11 0.16 0.51 2 0.11
warthog 19 3732 41 1.10 0.98 3.14 2 0.11
wildebeestblack 19 3732 120 3.22 2.60 8.01 5 0.26
zebramountain 19 3732 420 11.25 12.26 11.23 17 0.89

Bar Plot for RAI General

This plot shows the Relative Abundance Index (better called capture frequencies) of all species, using the total camera days so comparison should be taken cautiously

Plot RAI alt

In this plot the effort is considered per each camera trap

RAI alt of threatened species (VU, EN, CR) as per IUCN classification

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