Sample name: Mole National Park

Reference: A. C. Burton, M. K. Sam, C. Balangtaa, and J. S. Brashares. 2012. Hierarchical multi-species modeling of carnivore responses to hunting, habitat and prey in a West African protected area. PLoS ONE 7(e38007):1-14 [ER 1786]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 27.8

WMT: 30.5

CMT: 26.1

MAP: 1104.0

Habitat comments: "open savanna woodland is the dominant habitat type, with tree cover averaging about 30% and grasses reaching 2–3 m in height during the April-to-October wet season... most of the park's rivers are seasonal"
MAP stated in text is 1100 mm
climate data are for Mole National Park and are from Dankwa-Wiredu and Euler (2002, Afr J Ecol)

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

Sampling methods: no design, automatic cameras

Sample size: 4091 captures or sightings

Years: 2006 - 2009

Nets or traps: 224

Net or trap nights: 4867

Camera type: analog

Cameras paired: no

Trap spacing: 1.0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "We conducted a camera trap survey between October 2006 and January 2009... we used data from 224 camera stations... we covered representative gradients using systematic sampling within 31 camera arrays... Within an array, stations were spaced at about 1-km intervals... Most stations consisted of a single passive infrared DeerCam DC-300 film camera trap unit"
carnivores are omitted from the table, but are reported by Burton et al. 2011 (Biological Conservation) as "independent detections per 100 trap days"; their figures suffer from rounding error but are acceptable, and were back-computed from their stated trap day total of 5469

Sample no: 1993

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-31 19:11:09

Modified: 2020-10-21 01:37:14