Camera Trap Detection Rate

AUS-ASC-CON-CTR General Moderate confidence

Benchmark Value

15.5 Detections per 100 trap-nights
Direction: Higher is desirable ↑
Form: Point

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Evidence & Context

From Table 4 of Driessen et al. (2022), the "Mean activity (visits/100 camera days)" for "All native mammals" in "Long unburnt" areas surveyed in 2020 on the Central Plateau is 15.5.

Metric Definition:

Camera Trap Detection Rate (CTR) defined as (number of visits / number of operational camera days) * 100, where a visit is one image or sequence of images with no more than 5 minutes between any two of them and more than 5 minutes until the next image of that species.

Benchmark Definition:

This benchmark represents the reference camera trap detection rate for native mammals in long unburnt protected alpine and subalpine areas of the Tasmanian Central Plateau, indicating typical activity levels under conservation management.

Justification:

The value is derived from 'long unburnt' sites within protected alpine and subalpine landscapes of the Tasmanian Central Plateau, representing the best available condition under current best-practice management, despite the use of fish oil lures which likely inflate detection rates.

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Context

  • Region Australia
  • Biome Alpine and Subalpine Complex
  • Land Use Conservation / Protected Natural Areas
  • Assessment Conservation Target
  • Evidence Type ReferenceCondition

Lifecycle

  • Status Active
  • Version 1
  • Effective From 22 Mar 2026

Notes

No numeric lower critical threshold is defined; very low detection rates indicate severe degradation. An upper detrimental threshold is considered ecologically improbable in healthy protected alpine ecosystems.