Camera Trap Detection Rate
Benchmark Value
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Evidence & Context
Lower Critical Threshold: < 1 detection/100 trap-nights, indicating a functionally empty landscape.
Camera Trap Detection Rate (CTR) indicating the threshold below which the native mammal community is functionally empty.
This benchmark defines the lower critical threshold of Camera Trap Detection Rate below which the ecosystem is considered functionally empty in Australia's Tropical Monsoonal Savannas agricultural cropping systems.
Based on the high frequency of 'mammal-empty' sites reported in surveys across northern Australia, indicating severe degradation.
Sources (1)
The State and Future of the Northern Territory's Savannas - NationBuilder
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Additional references from the underlying research that informed this benchmark.
Diversity and habitat use of medium-large sized mammals across oil palm landscapes in the Llanos region of Colombia - ResearchOnline@JCU, accessed July 23, 2025
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Stemming the tide: progress towards resolving the causes of decline and implementing management responses for the disappearing mammal fauna of northern Australia
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