Sample name: PT Asiatic Persada oil palm

Reference: T. Maddox, D. Priatna, E. Gemita, and A. Salampessy. 2007. The conservation of tigers and other wildlife in oil palm plantations. Jambi Province, Sumatra, Indonesia (October 2007). ZSL Conservation Report 7:1-62 [ER 2068]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: plantation

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: data are for palm oil plantation sensu stricto only
plantation "formed in 1979" and expanded until 1996
no description of climate

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

Sampling methods: quadrat,automatic cameras

Sample size: 369 captures or sightings

Nets or traps: 16

Net or trap nights: 1111

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Trap spacing: 0.5

Sampling comments: "a mixture of 'Camtrakker' and 'Photoscout' cameras were used with passive sensors" with cameras "set up randomly... in grids of 16 camera in a 4x4 configuration, with 500m spacing between cameras... left in position for one month, giving a maximum of 496 trap nights (16x31), if every camera worke on every night.. The grid was left in three different areas of the oil palm for one month each, providing a total of 1111 camera-trap nights"
data for the entire concession including all habitats and for the entire landscape including the plantation are also given; these data include traps "used to target tigers" but the current survey includes randomly placed cameras only
opportunistic sighting data are also reported

Sample number: 2009

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-05-23 11:06:03

Modified: 2016-05-23 01:06:03