Sample name: Western Trento Province (2012)

Reference: C. Tattoni, N. Bragalanti, C. Groff, and F. Rovero. 2015. Patterns in the use of rub trees by the Eurasian Brown Bear. Hystrix 26(2):1-7 [ER 1758]

Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 4.0

MAP: 992.0

Habitat comments: "The trees are found mainly in broad leave forests (beech) but also in coniferous (spruce and fir) and mixed forests"
climate data are for Pellizano in western Trento Province and are from Carletti et al. (2009, Plant Soil)

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

Site area: 40000

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 3305 captures or sightings

Years: 2012

Seasons: spring,summer,autumn

Nets or traps: 20

Net or trap nights: 3101

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Sampling comments: "Our camera trapping study targeted each year 20 rub trees... to ensure a representative coverage of the core area of the population (600 km2; Groff et al., 2015), we divided the area into four quadrants and selected five rub trees in each, ensuring that the distance between adjacent trees was greater than 3 km. This selection resulted in targeted rub trees (density of 0.05/km2)... Camera traps were set to function continuously... from April to November... We used UV565HD digital camera traps equipped with an infra- red LED flash for video recording... set to work... in continuous across the 24 hours"; there were "9302 camera days over the three years" and it is assumed that 1/3 pertain to 2012

Sample number: 1962

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-23 20:54:48

Modified: 2016-12-15 10:26:55