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Booderee National Park trends in mammal abundance

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.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2014-08-18
Date (Publication)
2022-03-23
Date (Revision)
2025-12-11
Edition
1.0

Identifier

Title
DataCite
Code
doi:10.4227/05/53F1529A84AF5
Codespace
http://dx.doi.org

Publisher

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Author

Booderee National Park - Dexter, Nicholas (Senior Project Officer)
Booderee National Park, Village Road, JERVIS BAY, 2540, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
JERVIS BAY
New South Wales
2540
AUSTRALIA
Website
https://www.tern.org.au/

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.
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.
Status
Completed

Point of contact

Booderee National Park - Dexter, Nicholas (Senior Project Officer)
Booderee National Park, Village Road, JERVIS BAY, 2540, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
Booderee National Park, Village Road
JERVIS BAY
New South Wales
2540
AUSTRALIA
Topic category
  • Biota

Extent

Description
Monitoring is undertaken across Booderee National Park in a diversity of habitats, including heath, woodland and sclerophyll forest. IBRA region: Sydney Basin
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Temporal extent

Time period
2003-08-20 2014-05-30
Title
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.
Website
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.

Related documentation

Title
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.
Website
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.

Related documentation

Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
GCMD Science Keywords
  • ANIMAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR
  • MAMMALS
  • POPULATION ABUNDANCE
  • POPULATION DISTRIBUTION
  • SPECIES PREDATION
  • SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Animal behaviour
  • Population ecology
  • Conservation and biodiversity
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • sex
  • Unitless
  • animal body mass
  • Gram
  • field species name
  • Unitless
  • pes length
  • Millimetre
  • pouch young
  • Number
QUDT Units of Measure
  • Unitless
  • Gram
  • Unitless
  • Millimetre
  • Number
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • 10 km - < 50 km or approximately .09 degree - < .5 degree
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • Monthly - < Annual
Australian Faunal Directory
  • Trichosurus_vulpecula
  • Rattus_fuscipes
  • Perameles_nasuta
Keywords (Discipline)
  • Flora, Fauna And Biodiversity (9608)
  • Long-Term Species Monitoring
  • Population Dynamics
  • Ecosystem Modelling
  • Predator-Prey Interactions
  • Bush Rat
  • Common Brushtail Possum
  • Long-Nosed Bandicoot
  • Bandicoots
  • Mammals
  • Marsupials
  • Native Rodents
  • Placentals
  • Possums

Resource constraints

Use limitation
The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license allows others to copy, distribute, display, and create derivative works provided that they credit the original source and any other nominated parties. Details are provided at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Linkage
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Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
Alternate title
CC-BY
Edition
4.0
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
TERN services are provided on an “as-is” and “as available” basis. Users use any TERN services at their discretion and risk. They will be solely responsible for any damage or loss whatsoever that results from such use including use of any data obtained through TERN and any analysis performed using the TERN infrastructure. <br /><br />Web links to and from external, third party websites should not be construed as implying any relationships with and/or endorsement of the external site or its content by TERN.<br /><br />Please advise any work or publications that use this data via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting
Other constraints
(C)2014 Director of National Parks (Parks Australia). Rights owned by Director of National Parks (Parks Australia).

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
/attachment/cc4dff88-6c9c-4184-85e6-0a06cf77def7/BNP_Mammal_data_2003-2014_QB8S0uU.xlsx

Distribution Information

Distribution format

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia, 4068
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
ro-crate-metadata.json

Data quality info

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Other
Census and Population Extrapolation performed using Repeated Measures. Fauna Sampling Technique involves Marking/Tagging and Trapping Arrays

Resource lineage

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Process step

Description
Sampling design: Mammal trapping commenced in August 2003 at the same time that intensive fox control began. One hundred traps are placed at 500m intervals along trails throughout the Park, with 50 trap sites in the eastern half of the Park and 50 trap sites in the western half of the Park. This forms two continuous transects of 24.5 km in each half of the Park.

Process step

Description
Mammal trapping: Traps are 20 x 20 x 50 cm wire cage traps, with every fifth trap a 30 x 30 x 60 cm cage trap. One end of the trap is covered by plastic to shelter trapped animals and traps are baited with a mixture of rolled oats and peanut butter. Trapping occurs every three months, over a two week period. In the first week, 50 traps in the eastern half of the Park are open for four nights and checked each morning. In the second week; 50 traps in the western half of the Park are open for four nights and checked each morning. Any bandicoots or possums trapped are weighed, sexed, pes length measured (bandicoots only) and marked with a PIT tag (Trovan ID 100). Females are searched for pouch young or indications of recent lactation. Numbers of bush rats trapped are also recorded.

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:4326

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/cc4dff88-6c9c-4184-85e6-0a06cf77def7

Title
TERN GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/cc4dff88-6c9c-4184-85e6-0a06cf77def7

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Date info (Creation)
2014-08-18T00:00:00.000000+00:00
Date info (Revision)
2025-12-11T22:53:32.524658+00:00

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-1:2014/AMD 1:2018 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals
Edition
1

Metadata standard

Title
ISO/TS 19115-3:2016
Edition
1.0

Metadata standard

Title
ISO/TS 19157-2:2016
Edition
1.0
Title
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-3:2016 and ISO 19157-2:2016
Date (published)
2021
Edition
1.0

Identifier

Code
10.5281/zenodo.5652221
Website
https://github.com/ternaustralia/TERN-ISO19115/releases/tag/v1.0

 
 

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Keywords

ANZSRC Fields of Research
Animal behaviour Conservation and biodiversity Population ecology
GCMD Science Keywords
ANIMAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR MAMMALS POPULATION ABUNDANCE POPULATION DISTRIBUTION SPECIES PREDATION SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS

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