Sample name: Waterberg Plateau Park

Reference: A. B. Stein, T. K. Fuller, and L. L. Marker. 2008. Opportunistic use of camera traps to assess habitat-specific mammal and bird diversity in northcentral Namibia. Biodiversity and Conservation 17(14):3579-3587 [ER 1705]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 21.0

WMT: 24.0

CMT: 16.0

MAP: 532.0

Habitat comments: there are "four different vegetation zones on top of the plateau: fountain plant communities, rocky outcrop communities, bush savanna, and mixed tree and shrub woodland"
climate data are for Grootfontein and are from Mileusnic et al. (2014, Journal of Geochemical Exploration)

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

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 351 captures or sightings

Years: 2006

Nets or traps: 11

Net or trap nights: 545

Camera type: analog

Cameras paired: yes

Trap spacing: 5.4

Sampling comments: 11 "motion-sensor camera stations" were positioned "between June and October 2006... Each station consisted of two motion-sensor cameras secured to trees at a height of 60 cm, pointing towards the path, but offset from each other at >0.5 m... The minimum distance between nearest stations was 3.0 km and the maximum distance was 7.8 km"

Sample number: 1899

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-09 20:03:13

Modified: 2016-12-14 21:56:22