Table 2. Camera trap survey specifications and marbled cat photographic capture data derived from intensive camera trap surveys of multiple study areas in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo.
| Study area | Camera trap grid | Survey effort and marbled cat capture data | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Area (km2)a | Protocol b | No. cam. stations | No. cam. stations on road / trail | Mean elevation and range (m.a.s.l) | Survey Dates | No. trap days | No. independent capturesc | Detection frequencyd | No. different animalse | |||
| Adults | cubs | Adults | cubs | |||||||||
| Crocker | 149.7 | Sim. | 35 | 3 / 32 | 1029 (383–1452) | 6/10/11–27/2/12 | 4059 | 11 | 0 | 0.27 | 5 (3) | 0 |
| Danum Valleyf | 157.0 | Split-grid | 79 | 0 / 79 | 384 (153–804) | 24/3/12–6/10/12 | 5837 | 39 | 0 | 0.67 | 17 (10) | 0 |
| Kabili Sepilok | 49.4 | Sim. | 35 | 0 / 35 | 66 (8–134) | 9/2/11–25/5/11 | 2054 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kinabatangan | 359.5 | Split-grid | 66 | 0 / 66 | 35 (5–135) | 24/7/10–17/12/10 | 4340 | 5 | 0 | 0.12 | 3 (2) | 0 |
| Malua | 102.8 | Sim. | 38 | 38 / 0 | 177 (68–286) | 9/7/08–12/2/09 | 3869 | 5 | 0 | 0.13 | 3 (2) | 0 |
| Tabin Northf | 71.4 | Sim. | 37 | 1 / 36 | 140 (11–407) | 16/12/09–22/4/10 | 3300 | 27 | 1 | 0.82 | 8 (2) | 1 |
| Tabin South | 72.9 | Sim. | 37 | 11 / 27 | 209 (62–431) | 18/9/09–11/1/10 | 3162 | 15 | 0 | 0.47 | 4 (1) | 0 |
| Tawauf | 149.0 | Sim. | 77 | 0 / 77 | 706 (209–1195) | 21/10/12–30/12/13 | 17397 | 72 | 1 | 0.41 | 28 (4) | 1 |
| Ulu Segama | 60.1 | Sim. | 22 | 19 / 3 | 252 (150–408) | 24/5/07–18/10/07 | 2847 | 7 | 1 | 0.25 | 5 (2) | 1 |
| Danum Palm | 7.8 | Sim. | 23 | NA | 210 (120–295) | 15/3/09–7/7/09 | 2212 | 5 | 0 | 0.23 | 1 (0) | 0 |
| Minat Teguh | 44.0 | Sim. | 33 | NA | 23 (1–49) | 26/5/11–18/8/11 | 1960 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
a Camera trap grid area is defined by a 100% Minimum Convex Polygon around all camera stations.
b We followed two survey protocols, Split-grid: where the entire grid was sequentially surveyed in two halves, and Sim.: Simultaneous, where all camera stations were deployed in a single phase.
c Number of photographic captures of different individuals or images obtained more than 1 hour apart.
d The number of independent adult photographic captures per 100 trap days.
e Values within parentheses represent the number of independent photographic captures that did not permit identification to individual.
f SECR density estimation was possible at these sites.