Sample name: Salt Pond Mountain

Sample aka: Mountain Lake Biological Station

Reference: M. J. Kelly and E. L. Holub. 2008. Camera trapping of carnivores: trap success among camera types and across species, and habitat selection by species, on Salt Pond Mountain, Giles County, Virginia. Northeastern Naturalist 15(2):249-262 [ER 1724]

Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Protection: national/state forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 8.0

WMT: 19.0

CMT: -3.0

MAP: 1301.0

Habitat comments: "deciduous hardwood forest with stands of Pinus strobus L. (white pine), and Tsuga canadensis L. (Carr.) (eastern hemlock)"
climate data are for the Mountain Lake Biological Station and are from Corbin et al. (2003, Water, Air, and Soil Pollution)

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

Sampling methods: no design, automatic cameras

Sample size: 344 captures or sightings

Years: 2005

Days: 72

Nets or traps: 15

Net or trap nights: 891

Camera type: both

Cameras paired: yes

Trap spacing: 1.25

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "15 camera stations, of which one was later moved... Trap sites were systematically spaced 1 to 1.5 km apart across the study site... We used both active and passive infrared-triggered cameras... We used the widely available film camera systems: the Trail-Master active (TM1550) system, and the passive systems DeerCam200 and CamTrakker; and one passive digital system, Reconyx (Recreational)... A total of nine TrailMasters, 15 DeerCams, two CamTrakkers and two Reconyx were dispersed among the trap sites... At 13 locations we placed two different camera systems on opposite sides of the trail to capture target animals from both sides of their body... Cameras operated from August 11 to October 22, 2005, for a 72-day trapping period"

Sample no: 1921

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-13 20:31:56

Modified: 2018-06-30 10:59:40