Sample name: Los Amigos Conservation Concession (2005)

Reference: M. W. Tobler, S. E. Carrillo-Percastegui, R. Leite Pitman, R. Mares, and G. Powell. 2008. An evaluation of camera traps for inventorying large and medium-sized terrestrial rainforest mammals. Animal Conservation 11(3):169-178 [ER 1703]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Protection: other protected area

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 24.0

MAP: 3000.0

Habitat comments: "mostly primary lowland Amazonian moist forest" with cameras placed "in terra firme and floodplain forests only"
there is "a marked dry season from June to September and a rainy season during the months of November through February"
MAP 2500 to 3500

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

Site area: 5000.0

Sampling methods: quadrat, automatic cameras

Sample size: 428 captures or sightings

Years: 2005

Days: 60

Seasons: dry, wet or monsoon

Nets or traps: 24

Net or trap nights: 1440

Camera type: analog

Cameras paired: yes

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: the survey was "carried out from 14 September to 13 November 2005... at the end of the dry season and the beginning of the rainy season... 24 camera stations were set out in a 2 km grid along the study site’s trail system... covering an area of c. 50 km2... Each camera station included paired cameras facing one another on respective sides of a trail... We used Deercam... passive infrared cameras... Cameras were operating 24h a day and were checked every 5 days to replace film and batteries if necessary"

Sample no: 1894

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-09 16:05:54

Modified: 2018-06-30 11:18:19