Sample name: Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary (good habitat area)

Reference: D. Pawar, H. P. Nelson, D. R. L. Pawar, and S. Khanwilkar. 2019. Estimating leopard Panthera pardus fusca (Mammalia: Carnivora: Felidae) abundance in Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary, Madhya Pradesh, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 11(5):13531-13544 [ER 3358]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Protection: wildlife protected area

Substrate: ground surface

MAP: 760.0

Habitat comments: "within the Kathiawar-Gir dry deciduous forest eco-regions... A large population of feral cattle... also roam the forests" but the reserve is currently uninhabited

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

Focal species: Panthera pardus fusca

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 1644 captures or sightings

Years: 2017

Days: 18

Nets or traps: 8

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: yes

Trap spacing: 1.875

Sampling comments: "The study was conducted over a 40-day period from 18 March to 26 April 2017 during the summer season" in two areas each of "15km2", one in "poor" and one in "good" habitat
the "good" area was sampled from 21 March to 8 April
"Sixteen trail cameras... Bushnell Trophy Cam HD Aggressor No-Glow... were used... The cameras were deployed in pairs... at a height of approximately 40cm... four to six metres apart... To minimise the possibility of double counting, an interval of at least 20 minutes was taken before recording the same object again... inter-camera distances during a six-day trapping session were between 1.25km and 2.5km... trapping was conducted over two survey periods of 18 days for each habitat"
counts are otherwise apparently just of photos without a further attempt to minimise double-counting
the abstract says there were 180 trap-nights: this apparently means 30 six-day trapping sessions in separate "observation blocks" that were each about 1 km2 in area
however, the actual number of trap nights should be 8 traps x 18 days = 144

Sample number: 3720

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2020-11-07 15:03:24

Modified: 2021-06-21 22:23:58