Dataset: Activity and movement of small mammals at the urban fringe
| Field | Value | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | Taylor, Casey | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Northern Beaches, Sydney | en_AU |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 2019-2020 | en_AU |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-04-08T01:27:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-04-08T01:27:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-04-08 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28043 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This dataset contains numbers of introduced black rat and long-nosed bandicoot visits to wildlife cameras in urban backyards as well as yard attributes including the presence of compost, mulch in gardens, vegetable or herbs gardens, chickens, cats, and dogs and whether rodent control was implemented on the property. | en_AU |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_AU |
| dc.rights | Copyright All Rights Reserved | en_AU |
| dc.subject | ecology | en_AU |
| dc.subject | urban | en_AU |
| dc.subject | wildlife | en_AU |
| dc.subject | management | en_AU |
| dc.subject | zoonoses | en_AU |
| dc.subject | mammals | en_AU |
| dc.subject | hosts | en_AU |
| dc.title | Dataset: Activity and movement of small mammals at the urban fringe | en_AU |
| dc.type | Dataset | en_AU |
| dc.subject.asrc | 05 Environmental Sciences | en_AU |
| dc.description.method | We used ScoutGuard 560K infrared wildlife cameras to estimate ground-dwelling small mammal activity in yards (n=56). Eighteen of the 56 yards were paired sites, where cameras were placed in adjacent bushland <100m away (n=18). We placed two cameras in yards for 3 nights: one facing lawn to target mammals that forage in the open (e.g., long-nosed bandicoots), and one facing garden to target mammals that forage under cover (e.g., black rats). Black rat visits on the first night of camera trapping have the strongest relationship with known population size (Weerakoon et al. 2014), so we considered 3 nights to be sufficient for estimating activity in the two habitats. Cameras were attached to wooden stakes approximately 30-50 cm above the ground. We sprayed a cold-pressed peanut oil lure (7 ml; 10 squirts from a plastic spray bottle) one meter from each camera in the centre of the camera field of view. We programmed cameras to capture 30-second high-resolution (1280 × 720) videos with a 5-minute interval to reduce the chance of capturing multiple videos of the same visitation, therefore we considered each video or detection a new ‘visit’. Camera sensitivity was set to high and to record videos from dusk until dawn (e.g., 18:00-06:00h) when the target small mammals were most active. When visiting yards we recorded the presence of compost, vegetable and/or herb gardens, chickens, cats, dogs, mulch in gardens, bird feeders, and whether the yard was adjacent to bushland, fully fencer and whether rodent control was implemented. | en_AU |
| dc.relation.other | Paddy Pallin Science Grant | |
| dc.relation.other | Stipend from Northern Beaches Council | |
| usyd.faculty | SeS faculties schools::Faculty of Science::School of Life and Environmental Sciences | en_AU |
| workflow.metadata.only | No | en_AU |
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