Sample name: Groenefontein Nature Reserve (thicket vegetation)

Reference: G. K. H. Mann, M. J. O'Riain, and D. M. Parker. 2015. The road less travelled: assessing variation in mammal detection probabilities with camera traps in a semi-arid biodiversity hotspot. Biodiversity and Conservation 24(3):531-545 [ER 1747]

Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland

Protection: nature reserve

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 17.7

MAP: 244.0

Habitat comments: "We sampled biodiversity with camera traps in three vegetation types: fynbos, subtropical thicket, and riverine vegetation"; the latter forms "dense clumps of bush separated by open areas"
climate data are for Oudtshoorn and are from Schmiedel and Jürgens (2004, Plant Ecology)

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

Sampling methods: line transect,automatic cameras

Sample size: 232 captures or sightings

Years: 2012

Nets or traps: 15

Net or trap nights: 1148

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Trap spacing: 0.025

Sampling comments: the reserve is 5200 ha and adjoining property 1100 ha; it is not clear whether the cameras cover the entire area
"three 100 m transects a minimum of 1 km apart... Camera traps were placed at 25 m intervals with the first camera on the road and the remaining four in a perpendicular straight line leading away from the edge of the road... Sampling was done with Cuddeback Capture cameras... All transects were run simultaneously for a period of approximately 90 days during the period from late August to early December 2012... Camera failure was low in fynbos vegetation (two cameras failed, 26 trap nights lost)"

Sample number: 1949

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-20 10:08:40

Modified: 2016-12-15 06:19:54