Is there any way to see how many active traps a project/line has had at a given point in time?
Several of our projects have expanded their trapping regimes or added new traps over the years. When we present the Monthly Catch Totals graph, it would be good to be able to add the context of added traps to indicate why there was a jump in catches. By the same rationale, if traps are added but catches remained relatively flat, it would be good to indicate that the catch/trap rate has fallen, potentially indicating an improvement in control outcomes.
If anyone has a sneaky (or not so sneaky) way of checking the # of traps on a project at a given point in time, please share.
@cooperii using the Work effort by user report and adding the date filters it will show how many installations were serviced over that period of time (not the number of visits, but the number of installations)
In this Monthly catch totals report, there is a column called “% Success”. This calculates the catches compared to the number of recorded checks in the period. Provided that your trappers generally record their no-catch checks as well as their catches, this might give you the corrected comparison you’re looking for.
Unfortunately it doesn’t work if any trappers only record their catches, you just get a false success rate of “100%” for that trapper which then throws off the overall project stats.
You can read all your trapping statistics using a WFS feed. Then you can use another app to analyse the statistics. I have made a dashboard that can show the activity in lots of ways, but you could use more modest tools like Excel. I can show all activity, only some species, any month, each project and anything in TrapNZ. If you have access to AGOL I could clone it for your org.
