Sample name: Naungmung and Machanbaw Townships

Reference: M. Rao, T. Myint, T. Zaw, and S. Htun. 2005. Hunting patterns in tropical forests adjoining the Hkakaborazi National Park, north Myanmar. Oryx 39(3):282-300 [ER 1788]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: grazing, hunting, mining, selective logging

MAT: 19.8

MAP: 3960.0

Habitat comments: "Selective extraction of commercial timber is legally permitted within these protected public forests. Paddy and shifting cultivation, hunting, mining, raising livestock and gathering of diverse non-timber forest products constitute the primary occupations of the relatively low human population in the area... The habitat is primarily subtropical broadleaved forest with patches of shifting cultivation, agricultural and degraded lands"
dailiy min/max 3.7/35.8ºC
climate data are for the Putao Plain and are from Rapolle et al. (2011, Ornithological Monographs)

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

Sites: 4

Sampling methods: no design, automatic cameras

Sample size: 168 captures or sightings

Years: 2002, 2003

Nets or traps: 16

Net or trap nights: 1238

Camera type: analog

Cameras paired: no

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "camera traps were deployed... at the four sites. Each camera trap was positioned near a salt lick or fruiting tree close to the end of every transect, with 16 traps deployed at any one time. Camera traps were left in the forest for 30–35 days and deployed at 64 different positions at the four sites over the entire study period for a total of 1, 238 trap nights"; film cameras were used

Sample no: 1996

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-02-04 17:03:47

Modified: 2016-12-17 00:21:20