Sample name: Bharatpur and Jagannathprasad

Sample aka: Chandaka-Dampara Wildlife Sanctuary

Reference: S. Debata and K. K. Swain. 2020. Mammalian fauna in an urban influenced zone of Chandaka-Dampara Wildlife Sanctuary in Odisha, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 12(8):15767-15775 [ER 3348]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Protection: wildlife protected area

Substrate: ground surface

MAP: 1542.0

Habitat comments: "The climate of the area is tropical and the three distinct seasons-summer (March-June), monsoon (July-October) and winter (November-February)-are experienced here. The annual mean temperature of the area varies between 12ºC during January to 42ºC during May with an average annual rainfall of 1, 542mm. Vegetation of the area is an admixture of mixed deciduous, semi-evergreen and bamboo brakes and the major portion of the area is covered with bushy and shrubby vegetation... Although currently, there is no human habitation and human activities within the area, it is experiencing severe biotic pressure from the growth and development of Bhubaneswar City"
reported temperatures are respectively winter daily lows and summer daily highs

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

Sampling methods: no design, automatic cameras

Sample size: 2179 captures or sightings

Years: 2019

Days: 120

Nets or traps: 9

Net or trap nights: 771

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "The study was carried out for four months (1 January-30 April 2019) by using nine automatically triggered camera traps (Cuddeback and Moultrie, USA). The area was first divided into square shaped 1km2 grids" with "one camera trap in each grid for a minimum of 25 days... we could only sample nine grids at a time... Each photo was rated as an independent capture, if the time between consecutive photographs of the same subject was more than 30 minutes apart... effort resulted in 771.31 trap days"
cattle and water buffalo count is 141 photos, undifferentiated, but RAIs of 15.81 and 2.46 are reported, so the separate counts are 122 and 19
a vehicle count of 676 is also reported; Homo sapiens count is of "human traffic"

Sample no: 3717

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2020-11-05 15:21:01

Modified: 2020-11-05 04:21:33