Sample name: Drakensberg Midlands

Reference: T. Ramesh and C. T. Downs. 2015. Impact of land use on occupancy and abundance of terrestrial mammals in the Drakensberg Midlands, South Africa. Journal for Nature Conservation 23:9-18 [ER 1748]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Altered habitat: cropland

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 31.8

CMT: 9.2

MAP: 975.0

Habitat comments: original vegetation is shown to be "grassland" in Fig. 1, but the sites are on farms and "The main land uses in this region are dairy production using indigenous grassland pasture, seed potatoes Solanum tuberosum and maize Zea mays"
climate data are for Fort Nottingham in the Drakensberg Midlands and are from Ramesh and Downs (2014, J Ornith)

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

Sites: 3

Site area: 113200.0

Sampling methods: no design, automatic cameras

Sample size: 3319 captures or sightings

Years: 2012, 2013

Nets or traps: 15

Net or trap nights: 1320

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Trap spacing: 1.7

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "The minimum convex polygon size of the camera survey areas was 43.2km2 for A and 35km2 for both B and C... we conducted camera trapping survey between October 2012 and January 2013 using a systematic grid 2 km2 covering all three different sites varied in land use patterns at 44 locations. We did not have large number of traps (15 traps)... Each grid had a minimum of one camera trap site with mean inter-trap distance of 1.7km Each camera was operated for 30 days amounting to a total effort of 1320 trap nights... surveys used fixed [Camera LtI Acorn 6210MC digital] cameras... left to operate for 24 h a day"

Sample no: 1950

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-20 11:22:00

Modified: 2016-12-15 06:24:25