Camera Trap Wildlife Images from Daintree Rainforest Core Plot

Encompassing camera trap images of fauna captured at the Daintree Discovery Centre in Cow Bay, Australia. One Reconyx HC600 HyperFire camera was deployed at a height of 0.5 meters adjacent to a 1-hectare core plot from January to June 2017. The forest is classified as complex mesophyll vine forest with a 25-meter average canopy height.

Use Cases

• Train an image classification model to identify species like Megapodius Reinwardt or Casuarius Casuarius Johnsonii from the camera trap images.
• Analyze temporal activity patterns of fauna such as Melomys Cervinipes Melomys or Uromys Caudimaculatus during the January to April 2017 monitoring period.
• Study biodiversity in a complex mesophyll vine forest ecosystem using the collected camera trap imagery.
• Correlate fauna observations with the specific forest type and dominant canopy tree families (Arecaceae, Euphorbiaceae, etc.) documented at the site.

Strengths

• Images were captured using a high-quality passive infrared wildlife camera (Reconyx HC600 HyperFire).
• Data collection is focused on a 1-hectare core plot within a well-characterized forest type (complex mesophyll vine forest).
• The site is part of the long-term Daintree Rainforest SuperSite monitoring infrastructure.

Limitations

• Sample size is limited to imagery from a single camera trap deployed for less than five months.
• Data is geographically restricted to one specific plot in Cow Bay, Australia.
• The dataset includes HTML and PNG files, suggesting metadata and images are separate, which may complicate automated analysis.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Passive infrared wildlife camera (Reconyx HC600 HyperFire) attached to a tree at 0.5 meters height.

Time Range

January 2017 to June 2017

Freshness

Data was last updated in March 2026, but the primary collection period was in early 2017.

Geography

Daintree Discovery Centre at Cow Bay, Queensland, Australia, adjacent to a 1-hectare core plot.