Sample name: Table Mountain National Park

Reference: R. B. Colyn, F. G. T. Radloff, and M. J. O'Riain. 2018. Camera trapping mammals in the scrubland's of the Cape Floristic Kingdom - the importance of effort, spacing and trap placement. Biodiversity Conservation 27:503-520 [ER 3346]

Habitat: Mediterranean woodland

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: "within the Peninsula Sandstone Fynbos vegetation type... The area experiences a temperate Mediterranean climate"

Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates,birds,turtles

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 407 captures or sightings

Days: 69

Nets or traps: 25

Net or trap nights: 3312

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Trap spacing: 0.5

Sampling comments: the area "was populated with 25 Bushnell HD camera traps which were evenly spaced with an oblique distance of 500 m between them"
half the cameras were located "20 m from each grid point" and half "to a maximum of 120 m from each designated grid point" and separate counts of large mammals are given for each category, but not for the other taxa
"Consecutive photographs of the same species at a given camera station were deemed independent if photographs were taken > 1 h apart"

Sample number: 3715

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2020-11-02 08:30:42

Modified: 2020-11-01 21:30:42