Sample name: Nuristan Province

Reference: K. Stevens, A. Deghan, M. Karlstetter, F. Rawan, M. I. Tawhid, S. Ostrowski, J. M. Ali, and R. Ali. 2011. Large mammals surviving conflict in the eastern forests of Afghanistan. Oryx 45(2):265-271 [ER 1713]

Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: hunting

Habitat comments: "historically characterized by extended oak Quercus spp. forests up to 2, 500 m, where they are displaced by coniferous forests comprising juniper Juniperus spp., pine Pinus spp. and deodar cedar Cedrus deodara. The tree line is at 3, 600 m and, above that, there are alpine shrublands, heaths and meadows... All cameras were placed within oak and coniferous forests"

Life forms: carnivores, rodents

Site area: 5000.0

Sampling methods: no design, automatic cameras

Sample size: 391 captures or sightings

Years: 2007, 2009

Seasons: winter, spring

Nets or traps: 5

Net or trap nights: 901

Camera type: analog

Cameras paired: yes

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "We overlaid a grid of 27 squares of 50 km2 over the study site; not all the grids covered forest... Teams also conducted three camera-trap surveys in August 2007, November–December 2007 and January – March 2009 in six of the 50-km2 grid cells that, according to residents and survey teams, had intact forest cover and evidence of common leopard. Ten camera traps were placed in five pairs" (presumably in each cell); Wildlife Pro and Deer Cam film camera pairs were used; there were "9–10 sites per grid cell, totalling 97 sites" and "After 10 days of trapping the five camera pairs were moved to another five sites within the grid cell" (meaning that at any one time, density was five stations per 50 km2)
separate counts are given for the three field campaigns but are lumped here because the trap night total cannot be broken down

Sample no: 1910

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-10 21:03:28

Modified: 2016-01-12 06:49:13