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
Publisher
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
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- 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
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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
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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
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Australian Faunal Directory
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- 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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- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
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- 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
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- NetCDF
Distributor
Distributor
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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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
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urn:uuid/cc4dff88-6c9c-4184-85e6-0a06cf77def7
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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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
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