Sample name: Belete-Gera National Forest Priority Area (natural forest)

Reference: J. E. J. Mertens, W.-J. Emsens, M. Jocqué, L. Geeraert, and M. De Beenhouwer. 2018. From natural forest to coffee agroforest: implications for communities of large mammals in the Ethiopian highlands. Oryx 54(5):715-722 [ER 3312]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Protection: national/state forest

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: hunting

MAT: 18.4

MAP: 1780.0

Habitat comments: "an Afromontane evergreen climax forest... Mean annual temperature and rainfall at 2,000 m altitude are 18.4ºC and 1,780 mm, respectively... People from various ethnic groups inhabit the region, and they extract coffee, honey, spices, bushmeat, wood and medicines from the forest... In the natural forest, coffee harvesting occurs on a limited scale... The coffee forest patches, in contrast, are characterized by higher levels of anthropogenic disturbance, caused by slashing of undergrowth and active planting and replanting of coffee seedlings"

Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 316 captures or sightings

Years: 2014, 2015

Seasons: wet or monsoon

Nets or traps: 8

Net or trap nights: 928

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Trap spacing: 0.3

Sampling comments: "Sixteen wildlife cameras... 10 Bushnell Trophy Cam 2011... and six Bushnell Trophy Cam XLT 2011... were deployed... for 6 months during the Ethiopian wet season (August 2014-January 2015)... Cameras were... spaced at least 300 m apart... Eight cameras were placed in coffee forest and eight in natural forest, simultaneously"
there were 19,059 camera-trap hours = 794 trap days in coffee forest and 22,272 camera-trap hours = 928 trap days in natural forest

Sample number: 3686

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2020-10-21 18:52:18

Modified: 2021-03-21 07:06:07