Wildlife camera trap photographs from the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine (June 2020 - November 2020) following extensive wildfires

Barnett, C.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9723-7247; Gashchak, S.; Wood, M.D.; Beresford, N.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8722-0238. Wildlife camera trap photographs from the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine (June 2020 - November 2020) following extensive wildfires. November 2022, https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/9bd7754d-ea87-4b35-bec1-f39d5cc76db6 [Output (Electronic)]

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Following the explosion at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in April 1986, a 5000 km2 exclusion zone surrounding the plant was created; people and farm animals were subsequently evacuated from the area. In April 2020 there were severe wildfires within the Ukrainian part of the exclusion zone (2600 km2) where approximately 870 km2 was burnt. The NERC-funded CHAR project conducted a study which involved placing motion activated digital camera traps at three sites (each covering an area of 80 km2) within the Ukrainian exclusion zone from June 2020 - August 2021 to assess large mammal activity following the fire. Thirteen cameras were randomly located at each site; all camera deployment locations had been used in a previous study 2014-2015 (https://tree.ceh.ac.uk/content/chernobyl-webcams). All the images obtained during June - November 2020 are included as part of the dataset with the exception of those images containing people, vehicles or members of the CHAR research team setting up and servicing the cameras; these images have been catalogued but they are not included in the dataset to protect privacy. Information on camera deployment periods, site characteristics and descriptions of each camera location (e.g. geographic coordinates, estimates of ambient dose rate, description of animal trails or tracks and the extent of fire damage in vicinity of where the camera is mounted) have also been included as part of the dataset. Staff from the Chornobyl Center for Nuclear Safety deployed, maintained and downloaded information from the cameras and provided field notes and observations of habitat. UKCEH staff populated the dataset using the information provided.

Item Type:	Output (Electronic)
Electronic Identifier / URL / DOI:	https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/9bd7754d-ea87-4b35-bec1-f39d5cc76db6
Date made live:	12 Oct 2022 16:07 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/533353

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