Sample name: Ruaha National Park (dry season, random placement)

Reference: J. J. Cusack, A. J. Dickman, J. M. Rowcliffe, C. Carbone, D. W. Macdonald, and T. Coulson. 2015. Random versus game trail-based camera trap placement strategy for monitoring terrestrial mammal communities. PLOS ONE 10(e0126373):1-14 [ER 1751]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 21.0

MAP: 500.0

Habitat comments: "semi-arid to arid, with rainfall peaks occurring from December to January and March to April... The vegetation cover is a mosaic of typical East African semi-arid savannah and northerly Zambesian miombo woodland"
MAP stated in text; MAT is for Mfyome (north of Iringa) and is from Lund and Treue (2008, World Development)

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

Site area: 10800.0

Sampling methods: no design, automatic cameras

Sample size: 2782 captures or sightings

Years: 2013, 2015

Seasons: dry

Nets or traps: 54

Net or trap nights: 2820

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "The study area was first divided into 2-km2 grid cells... Fifty-four adjacent cells were then selected" and cameras were placed on natural game trails... Both cameras within a sampling pair were of the same model" (Reconyx HC500); camera pairs were separated by up to 50 m, with "random" and "trail-based" cameras yielding separate counts; "Sampling periods consisted of 8 successive weeks in both the dry (19th September 2013–18th November 2013) and wet season (21st December 2013–21st February 2014)"

Sample no: 1953

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-20 13:41:49

Modified: 2020-05-29 10:03:53