Sample name: Wanglang Nature Reserve (2020)

Reference: Z. X. Liu, B. Dayananda, R. A. Jeffree, C. Tian, Y. Y. Zhang, B. Yu, Y. Zheng, Y. Jing, P. Y. Si, and J. Q. Li. 2020. Giant panda distribution and habitat preference: the influence of sympatric large mammals. Global Ecology and Conservation 24:e01221 [ER 3398]

Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Protection: nature reserve

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 14.7

MAP: 867.0

Habitat comments: Cameras were placed in "three forest types: coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest, evergreen fall and broad mixed forest and deciduous broad-leaved forest"
Climate data are for the Wanglang National Nature Reserve and are from Xu et al. (2015, J. Mt. Sci.)

Life forms: carnivores,primates,ungulates,birds

Sampling methods: automatic cameras

Sample size: 1475 captures or sightings

Years: 2018, 2019

Nets or traps: 33

Net or trap nights: 5094

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Sampling comments: "We divided the WNNR into 1 km2 square-shaped grids and chose the presence of paths with giant panda signs (feeding traces, footprint, droppings etc.) in order to set one camera in each of the grids"
"Thirty-three cameras were placed between 2640 and 3204m above sea level"
"We used infrared automatic cameras (LTL AcornTM 6210) and at each grid a camera was fixed on a tree or bamboo bush at 30–80 cm above the ground"
"The cameras were continuously monitored between May 2018 and June 2019"
Only 10 wild species (in addition to the giant panda) "with higher photographic rates" are reported in the study. Apparently, species with "lower photographic rates" were discarded (and thus are not reported) to "avoid the disproportionate statistical effects of occasional occurrences"

Sample number: 3779

Contributor: Benjamin Carter

Enterer: Benjamin Carter

Created: 2021-06-09 13:10:00

Modified: 2021-06-10 00:58:56