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Camera Trap Images from Daintree Discovery Centre, Cow Bay, Core 1 ha 

Ver: 1.0
Status of Data: completed
Update Frequency: notPlanned
Security Classification: unclassified
Record Last Modified: 2025-12-02
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Accessed 9 times
Dataset Created: 2017-01-22
Dataset Published: 2021-08-09
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How to cite this collection:
Liddell, M. & Weigand, N. (2021). Camera Trap Images from Daintree Discovery Centre, Cow Bay, Core 1 ha. Version 1.0. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. https://portal.tern.org.au/metadata/7c725b4c-1202-4862-869e-87855e0bb389 
The Daintree Rainforest SuperSite comprises two sites (a) the Daintree Rainforest Observatory at Cape Tribulation, comprising a long-term monitoring sites, canopy crane, and extensive researcher and teaching infrastructure and (b) research facilities at the Daintree Discovery Centre at Cow Bay, an award winning ecotourism interpretive centre featuring a canopy tower, aerial walkway and scientific monitoring. This dataset contains high quality passive infrared wildlife cameras were used to acquire information on faunal biodiversity at the Daintree Discovery Centre at Cow Bay. One camera trap was deployed adjacent to the 1 ha core plot between 22/01/2017 and 08/06/2017. The core plot is located within the fetch of the flux tower and is the focal site of recurrent monitoring. The camera (Reconyx HC600 HyperFire) was attached to a tree at 0.5 metre high.
The forest is classed as complex mesophyll vine forest (type 1a) and has an average canopy height of 25m. The dominant canopy trees belong to the Arecaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Rutaceae, Meliaceae, Myristicaceae and Icacinaceae families. It is continuous for several kilometres around the Cow Bay Tower except for an area 600m north-east of the flux tower, which is cleared agricultural land used for a cattle farm. For additional information on the Daintree Rainforest SuperSite, see https://www.tern.org.au/tern-observatory/tern-ecosystem-processes/daintree-rainforest-supersite/

Other images collected at the site include digital cover photography, phenocam time-lapse images (3 above canopy, 1 under canopy), panoramic landscape and photopoints.


Camera trap results for the Daintree Discovery Centre between January and April 2017. 
Credit
We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. The Cow Bay site is managed by James Cook University in a collaboration with the Daintree Discovery Centre. The site was co-funded by the Daintree Discovery Centre and the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN). 
Purpose
Data not provided. 
Lineage
Data not provided. 
Method DocumentationData not provided.
Procedure Steps

1. 

Camera Trap: Deployment of a camera trap adjacent to the one hectare core Cow Bay plot. Instruments:
1 x wildlife camera (Reconyx HC600 HyperFire HD Covert IR)
1 x camera security boxes
1 x Python cable locks 

2. 

Sampling description: The camera was deployed adjacent to the one hectare core Cow Bay plot between 22/01/2017 and 08/06/2017. The camera (Reconyx HC600 HyperFire HD Covert IR) was attached to a tree at 0.5 metres high. Data were downloaded from SD cards and NiCad batteries replaced on a regular cycle during the camera trap deployment. 

Daintree Discovery Centre at Cow Bay, 100km from Cairns in Far North Queensland.
Temporal Coverage
From 2017-01-22 to 2017-06-08 
Spatial Resolution

Data not provided.

Vertical Extent

Data not provided.

ANZSRC - FOR
Animal physiological ecology
Forest biodiversity
GCMD Sciences
AGRICULTURE - ANIMAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR
SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING - VISIBLE IMAGERY
Horizontal Resolution
Point Resolution
Instruments
Reconyx Hyperfire HC600
Parameters
animal occurrence
Platforms
Daintree Rainforest, Cow Bay, core1ha
Temporal Resolution
Daily - < Weekly
Topic
biota
environment
User Defined
acidic, dystrophic, brown dermosol
camera trap
Casuarius casuarius johnsonii
Complex Mesophyll Vine Forest
Megapodius reinwardt
Melomys cervinipes- melomys
TERN Ecosystem Processes
Uromys caudimaculatus
Author
Liddell, Michael
Co-Author
Weigand, Nico
Contact Point
Liddell, Michael
Publisher
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Daintree Rainforest SuperSite
Camera Trap Survey Trial (Daintree Discovery Centre, between January and April 2017)
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