Sample name: Hotohama (2010 - 2011)

Sample aka: Amami City

Reference: K. Shionosaki, S. Sasaki, F. Yamada, and S. Shibata. 2016. Changes in free-roaming cat activity following a regulation prohibiting feeding: A case study at a mountain forest near residential area in Amami City on Amami-Ohshima Island, Japan. Wildlife and Human Society 3(2):1-13 [ER 3321]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: fragment

Protection: unprotected

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: hunting

WMT: 27.7

CMT: 15.5

MAP: 2840.0

Habitat comments: "the climate is warm (mean temperatures: summer, 27.7ºC; winter, 15.5ºC) and wet (mean annual rainfall: 2,840 mm). The vegetation at the study area is subtropical evergreen broad leaf forest... The study area (2 km2 in size) is adjacent to three residential areas... A paved, two-lane forest road runs through the center of the study area. The road is mainly used by local hunters during the winter season"

Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates

Sampling methods: no design,baited,automatic cameras

Sample size: 2628 captures or sightings

Years: 2010, 2011

Days: 192

Nets or traps: 178

Net or trap nights: 34176

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Trap spacing: 0.1

Sampling comments: "The first survey had a six-month duration, between November 2010 and April 2011, prior to the regulations' enforcement. The second survey commenced two weeks after the regulation was issued, and it was carried out for seven months, between October 2011 and April 2012. For the first survey, 178 Trophy Cams (Bushnell Outdoor Products, Kansas, USA) were set up, and 186 cameras for the second survey. The cameras were set at 100 m intervals... An attractant was set on the ground in front of each camera station... Each attractant included a small piece of dried squid and fish sausage"

Sample number: 3691

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2020-10-28 19:55:31

Modified: 2020-10-28 08:55:31