THE VALUE OF MAMMAL MONITORING ON THE FIVE RIVERS RESERVE, BRONTE

摘要

A survey of terrestrial mammals was undertaken on the Five Rivers Reserve as part of the 2014 National Bush Blitz program and Save The Tasmanian Devil Program. Motion sensor cameras were installed at 46 sites on roads and tracks across the reserve and collected six weeks later. Camera images were scored according to species presence; their detection rate and a determination of the number of individual Tasmania devils, feral cats, eastern quoll and spotted-tailed quoll was made. A total of 24 vertebrate species were identified from 4,375 fauna images collected over 1,669 trap nights. Of these 15 were mammal species.