BDBSA Project Metadata Detail

Survey/Project Number: 846          Total No. of Sites: 96
Survey/Project Name: Bandicoot Trapping/Post Fire:Scott Ck CP
Abstract: In 2007, a project to examine the response of the threatened southern brown bandicoot(Isoodon obesulus obesulus) to prescription burning was established in Scott Creek Conservation Park. Experimental design, trapping, telemetry and habitat assessment protocols, and database design were established at that point by Kirstin Abley (nee Long. Since then the response of bandicoots to post-fire changes in habitat has been monitored through a regular trapping program. Habitat assessments were undertaken pre-fire and 12 months post-fire. The report by Joss Bentley reports on the results of the trapping undertaken in November 2010 (3.5 years post-fire) and summarises the results of the monitoring program to date. Luke Price has continued on with the project 2011 and 2012.
 
Start Date: 01/01/2007      End Date: 01/01/2020
Survey Type: Fauna only
   
Study Area Description: Scott Creek Conservation Park.
Objectives
         Vegetation: *** No vegetation survey objectives recorded
         Fauna: Refer to Abstract.
Methodology
         Vegetation: *** No vegetation methodology recorded
         Fauna: One Elliott trap and one cage trap were set at each of the 64 trap sites on lines A, AB, C, D, E and Z (Figure 1), a similar effort to the 2.5 years post-fire monitoring. Cage traps were checked twice daily, in the morning and evening, and were covered with hessian bags to provide shelter. Elliott traps were opened in the evening and checked in the morning before being closed for the day. Traps were baited with rolled oats and peanut butter. Captured bandicoots were checked for microchips to determine whether they had previously been captured, and if not, were chipped and a tissue sample taken. If they were new animals, or this was their first capture for the season, individuals were sexed, weighed, and measurements made of head and pes length. Female s pouches were checked for young, which if present were counted and their stage of development described. Once processed, all bandicoots were released at the trap site. Animals other than bandicoots were identified and immediately released at the point of capture.

Data Distribution Rules: Public Dataset
Project Basis: Unknown :
Information Authority: Department for Environment and Heritage (BDBSA:Adelaide) - Blackhill Office - Regional Ecologist