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Camera Trap Images from Daintree Discovery Centre, Cow Bay, Core 1 ha

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 21/03/2026

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The Daintree Rainforest SuperSite comprises two sites (a) the Daintree Rainforest Observatory at Cape Tribulation, comprising a long-term monitoring sites, canopy crane, and extensive researcher and teaching infrastructure and (b) research facilities at the Daintree Discovery Centre at Cow Bay, an award winning ecotourism interpretive centre featuring a canopy tower, aerial walkway and scientific monitoring. This dataset contains high quality passive infrared wildlife cameras were used to acquire information on faunal biodiversity at the Daintree Discovery Centre at Cow Bay. One camera trap was deployed adjacent to the 1 ha core plot between 22/01/2017 and 08/06/2017. The core plot is located within the fetch of the flux tower and is the focal site of recurrent monitoring. The camera (Reconyx HC600 HyperFire) was attached to a tree at 0.5 metre high. The forest is classed as complex mesophyll vine forest (type 1a) and has an average canopy height of 25m. The dominant canopy trees belong to the Arecaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Rutaceae, Meliaceae, Myristicaceae and Icacinaceae families. It is continuous for several kilometres around the Cow Bay Tower except for an area 600m north-east of the flux tower, which is cleared agricultural land used for a cattle farm. For additional information on the Daintree Rainforest SuperSite, see https://www.tern.org.au/tern-observatory/tern-ecosystem-processes/daintree-rainforest-supersite/

Other images collected at the site include digital cover photography, phenocam time-lapse images (3 above canopy, 1 under canopy), panoramic landscape and photopoints.

Camera trap results for the Daintree Discovery Centre between January and April 2017.

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Title Camera Trap Images from Daintree Discovery Centre, Cow Bay, Core 1 ha
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/3fa7f344-fd35-4d27-9fd9-e93e8436940a
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
michael.liddell@jcu.edu.au
Reference Period 22/01/2017 - 08/06/2017
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

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This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "Camera Trap Images from Daintree Discovery Centre, Cow Bay, Core 1 ha". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/camera-trap-images-from-daintree-discovery-centre-cow-bay-core-1-ha