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Booderee National Park Trends in Mammal Abundance 

Ver: 1.0
Status of Data: completed
Update Frequency: notPlanned
Security Classification: unclassified
Dataset Published: 2022-03-23
Dataset Last Modified: 2026-08-18
Metadata viewed 125 times
Dataset accessed 14 times
Metadata Created: 2014-08-18
Metadata Last Modified: 2026-08-19
How to cite this collection:
Dexter, N. (2022). Booderee National Park Trends in Mammal Abundance. Version 1.0. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. https://dx.doi.org/10.4227/05/53F1529A84AF5 
Data can be accessed from the following links:
HTTPBNP_Mammal_data_2003-2014_QB8S0uU.xlsx
HTTPPoint-of-truth metadata URL
HTTPro-crate-metadata.json
A fox control program has been in place in Booderee National Park since 1999 with baiting occurring twice a year. From 2003 onwards baiting has been intensified, with baiting occurring once a month. Since 2003 monitoring has been undertaken to track trends in distribution and abundance of small-medium sized mammal species, in response to fox control. The dataset contains data on mammal species and numbers trapped in Booderee National Park, as well as a record of sex, weight, pes length, and presence of pouch young. 
Credit
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Purpose
Booderee National Park (approx. 6500 ha) is located on the south coast of New South Wales, south-eastern Australia. Predation by the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) has been identified as a key threatening process for small to medium-sized native mammals in Australia. A fox control program has been in place in Booderee National Park since 1999 with baiting occurring twice a year. From 2003 onwards baiting has been intensified, with baiting occurring once a month. Since 2003 monitoring has been undertaken to track trends in distribution and abundance of small-medium sized mammal species, in response to fox control. 
Lineage
Data not provided. 
Method DocumentationData not provided.
Procedure StepsData not provided.
Spatial Description
Monitoring is undertaken across Booderee National Park in a diversity of habitats, including heath, woodland and sclerophyll forest. IBRA region: Sydney Basin 
Temporal Coverage
From 2003-08-20 to 2014-05-30 
Spatial Resolution

Data not provided.

Vertical Extent

Data not provided.

Data Quality Assessment Scope
Census and Population Extrapolation performed using Repeated Measures. Fauna Sampling Technique involves Marking/Tagging and Trapping Arrays 
Data Quality Report
Data not provided. 
Data Quality Assessment Outcome
Data not provided. 
Australian Faunal Directory
Perameles_nasuta
Rattus_fuscipes
Trichosurus_vulpecula
ANZSRC - FOR
Animal behaviour
Conservation and biodiversity
Population ecology
Data Stream
Fauna Survey
GCMD Sciences
ANIMAL SCIENCE - ANIMAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR
ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES - MAMMALS
ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS - SPECIES PREDATION
ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS - SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS
PALEOCLIMATE INDICATORS - POPULATION ABUNDANCE
POPULATION DISTRIBUTION
Horizontal Resolution
10 km - < 50 km or approximately .09 degree - < .5 degree
Parameters
animal body mass
animal pes length
field species name
pouch young count
sex
Project
Others
Temporal Resolution
Monthly - < Annual
Topic
biota
User Defined
Bandicoots
Bush Rat
Common Brushtail Possum
Ecosystem Modelling
Flora, Fauna And Biodiversity (9608)
Long-Nosed Bandicoot
Long-Term Species Monitoring
Mammals
Marsupials
Native Rodents
Placentals
Population Dynamics
Possums
Predator-Prey Interactions
Author
Dexter, Nicholas
Contact Point
Dexter, Nicholas
Publisher
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Dexter, N., Meek, P., Moore, S., Hudson, M., & Richardson, H. (2007). Population responses of small and medium sized mammals to fox control at Jervis Bay, Southeastern Australia. Pacific Conservation Biology, 13(4), 283.
Dexter, N., Hudson, M., Carter, T. and Macgregor, C. (2011), Habitat-dependent population regulation in an irrupting population of long-nosed bandicoots (Perameles nasuta). Austral Ecology, 36: 745754.
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