Sample name: Alyangula

Reference: J. Heiniger, S. F. Cameron, and G. Gillespie. 2018. Evaluation of risks for two native mammal species from feral cat baiting in monsoonal tropical northern Australia. Wildlife Research 45(6):518-527 [ER 3009]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Protection: unprotected

Substrate: ground surface

MAP: 1300.0

Habitat comments: "laterite plains and sandstone plateaux, with eucalypt woodland being the dominant vegetation. It has a tropical monsoonal climate with a strongly seasonal rainfall averaging 1300 mm per annum, falling mostly between November and April"

Life forms: carnivores, rodents, other large mammals, other small mammals, birds, lizards

Sampling methods: no design, baited, automatic cameras

Sample size: 450 captures or sightings

Years: 2016

Days: 8

Seasons: dry

Nets or traps: 60

Net or trap nights: 480

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Trap spacing: 0.17

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "Field work was undertaken in the late dry season (August–October)... The first baiting trial was initiated at dusk on the 4 September 2016... During this trial, 60 non-toxic cat baits were deployed by hand 170 m apart... A second trial commenced on 9 September 2016... with 60 baits hand-deployed at the same locations... At each bait station, a Reconyx (Holmen, Wisconsin, USA) white-flash motion-sensor camera was deployed facing the bait... Each camera was deployed with a near-horizontal field of view 35 cm from ground level... Cameras were deployed horizontally"
first trial was five days and the second was three days

Sample no: 3238

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-03-03 16:59:51

Modified: 2019-03-03 05:59:51