Sample name: Bañados del Quirquincho (bañadero forest)

Reference: P. B. Puechagut, N. Politi, E. R. de los Llanos, L. Lizarraga, C. L. Bianchi, L. M. Bellis, and L. O. Rivera. 2018. Association between livestock and native mammals in a conservation priority area in the Chaco of Argentina. Mastozoología Neotropical 25(2):1-12 [ER 3333]

Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland

Protection: unprotected

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: grazing, selective logging

MAP: 575.0

Habitat comments: "in the semi-arid Chaco... The climate is markedly seasonal with rainfall between 450 and 700 mm... The vegetation is a medium-tall xerophilous forest with a canopy layer of about 12 m tall"
this sample is specifically in "bañadero forest (BF) or short forest/scrub dominated by Prosopis spp., located in land depressions that flood in the summer"
"In the study area there are a few small human settlements spread throughout the wetland, where the rural residents have a subsistence economy based on small-scale and unplanned livestock ranching and forest exploitation for charcoal and fence posts (Altrichter 2006). Livestock graze freely"

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

Sampling methods: no design, automatic cameras

Sample size: 218 captures or sightings

Years: 2012, 2013

Seasons: dry

Nets or traps: 20

Net or trap nights: 640

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Trap spacing: 1.0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "We conducted fieldwork from August 2012 to May 2013... We chose to focus our study on the dry season... we set camera traps 1000±250 m apart... To consider two records as independent, we used the criterion of an interval of >12 h between successive photographs"
Bushnell Trophy Cam Trail cameras were used

Sample no: 3703

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2020-10-30 15:41:19

Modified: 2021-03-21 06:50:48