Large mammals in Israel from camera traps

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Description

Observations of large mammals composed from camera traps. The monitoring array takes place in 11 monitoring units, while some of the larger units are further divided into subunits (different geographical regions) or habitats (different ecosystems). In some of the units the effect of proximity to man-made elements was also evaluated; in such cases there are also distinct sample sites near and far from the studied effect (e.g. settlements). Each unit x subunit x habitat x proximity combination usually contains 5 monitoring sites. In each such site, we positioned a transect of 900 m of 9 camera traps (with 100 m gaps) for about 10 days. All mammal photos were identified and grouped into observation events (represented by rows in the data file); an observation event is a set adjacent photos of the same species.Occupancy and activity levels estimates derived from HAMAARAG's large mammals monitoring program data play an important role in acting as indicators for trends in biodiversity, habitat change and climate change. New collaborations are extremely valuable to make the most of the data. Researchers are welcome to contact the dataset creator to collaborate on comparative analyses and meta-analysis.

Data Records

The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 92 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

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This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Dorman M (2015): Large mammals in Israel from camera traps. v1.5. Hamaarag. Dataset/Samplingevent. http://cloud.gbif.org/eubon/resource?r=camera&v=1.5

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Hamaarag. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: cdae52c7-a6f2-460e-b0e9-33c795a34224. Hamaarag publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Israel.

Keywords

Samplingevent; Camera trap; large mammals

Contacts

Michael Dorman

Metadata Provider ●
Originator ●
Point Of Contact

Quantitative Ecologist

HaMaarag

91391 Jerusalem

michael.dorman@hamaarag.org.il

+972-72-2222912

http://www.hamaarag.org.il

Kyle Braak

Processor

GBIF

kbraak@gbif.org

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3696-3496

Geographic Coverage

Israel

Bounding Coordinates	South West [29.47, 34.19], North East [33.41, 35.89]

Taxonomic Coverage

Large mammals

Class	Mammalia (mammals)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date	2012-01-01 / 2014-12-31

Sampling Methods

In each such site, we positioned a transect of 900 m of 9 camera traps (with 100 m gaps) for about 10 days. All mammal photos were identified and grouped into observation events (represented by rows in the attached file); an observation event is a set of adjacent photos of the same species.

Study Extent	The monitoring array takes place in 11 monitoring units, while some of the larger units are further divided into subunits (different geographical regions) or habitats (different ecosystems). In some of the units the effect of proximity to man-made elements was also evaluated; in such cases there are also distinct sample sites near and far from the studied effect (e.g. settlements). Each unit x subunit x habitat x proximity combination usually contains 5 monitoring sites.
Quality Control	Each identification (scientific name) is matched against the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy as a quality control to make sure that each identification is correct.

Study Extent

The monitoring array takes place in 11 monitoring units, while some of the larger units are further divided into subunits (different geographical regions) or habitats (different ecosystems). In some of the units the effect of proximity to man-made elements was also evaluated; in such cases there are also distinct sample sites near and far from the studied effect (e.g. settlements). Each unit x subunit x habitat x proximity combination usually contains 5 monitoring sites.

Quality Control

Each identification (scientific name) is matched against the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy as a quality control to make sure that each identification is correct.

Method step description:

In each such site, we positioned a transect of 900 m of 9 camera traps (with 100 m gaps) for about 10 days.
All mammal photos were identified and grouped into observation events (represented by rows in the data file); an observation event is a set adjacent photos of the same species.
To the data file, added the spatial location (taken from the camera position, and averaged per site in this particular version), the time of the event and an individual count.

Additional Metadata

Purpose
Alternative Identifiers	cdae52c7-a6f2-460e-b0e9-33c795a34224
	http://cloud.gbif.org/eubon/resource?r=camera