Sample name: Ingwezi Game Management Project

Reference: R. J. Welch, T. Grant, and D. M. Parker. 2019. Using camera traps to generate a species inventory for medium-sized and large mammals in South West Zimbabwe. African Journal of Wildlife Research 49(1):89-99 [ER 3311]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Protection: other protected area

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 20.4

MAP: 650.0

Habitat comments: "This area is managed as a conservancy and includes 15 small-scale cattle farmers who provide some form of protection to the wildlife and are compensated by profits received from trophy hunting. The study area forms the western end of the extensive Matobo Hills range, made up of large balancing granite boulders known as kopjes... the Mangwe district is exposed to human settlements, trophy hunting, agriculture (small-scale maize production and cattle farming) and high levels of poaching. The study area falls within the Savanna Biome (van Wyk & van Wyk, 1997) and the overall vegetation type is characterized as deciduous tree savanna... Annual rainfall in the region is less than 650 mm and is highly erratic (Lightfoot, 1981; Moyo, 2000). The average annual temperature is 20.4°C with an average high of 27.4°C and average low of 13.4°C"

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

Focal species: Panthera pardus

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 480 captures or sightings

Years: 2009

Nets or traps: 10

Net or trap nights: 400

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: yes

Sampling comments: "A camera trapping survey was carried out from 23 October to 5 December 2009 and was originally designed to meet the requirements for estimating the density of leopards... cameras... were placed within a minimum leopard home range size of 10 km2... Twenty Wildview Xtreme 5 (Wildview, Grand Prairie, Texas) cameras were placed in pairs, facing each other... images of the same species at the same camera site within a period of 30 minutes were excluded "

Sample number: 3685

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2020-10-21 14:32:13

Modified: 2020-10-21 03:32:13