Sample name: Los Amigos Conservation Concession (2006)

Reference: M. W. Tobler, S. E. Carrillo-Percastegui, R. Leite Pitman, R. Mares, and G. Powell. 2008. An evaluation of camera traps for inventorying large and medium-sized terrestrial rainforest mammals. Animal Conservation 11(3):169-178 [ER 1703]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Protection: other protected area

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 24.0

MAP: 3000.0

Habitat comments: "mostly primary lowland Amazonian moist forest" with cameras placed "in terra firme and floodplain forests only"
there is "a marked dry season from June to September and a rainy season during the months of November through February"
MAP 2500 to 3500

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

Site area: 5000.0

Sampling methods: quadrat, automatic cameras

Sample size: 725 captures or sightings

Years: 2006

Days: 60

Seasons: dry, wet or monsoon

Nets or traps: 39

Net or trap nights: 2340

Camera type: analog

Cameras paired: yes

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: the survey was carried out "from 16 August to 15 October 2006... at the end of the dry season and the beginning of the rainy season"; the 39 "camera stations were set out in a 2 km grid along the study site’s trail system... covering an area of c. 50 km2... Each camera station included paired cameras facing one another on respective sides of a trail... We used Deercam... passive infrared cameras... Cameras were operating 24h a day and were checked every 5 days to replace film and batteries if necessary"

Sample no: 1895

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-09 16:16:53

Modified: 2018-06-30 11:18:29