Data collection by fieldwork is time consuming and requires established field experience.
Resources were required to undertake data collection and analysis – for instance, ethical approvals were obtained for fieldwork; significant time was spent setting up appointments for interview and focus groups with policy makers, many of whom had competing schedules; TICH-GLUK notably trained staff to act as survey enumerators for an element of staff skills assessment.
In both areas, spring and summer drought would have concentrated X. laevis populations but fieldwork was timed to follow the return of water after rainfall.
In the Afon Alun, the presence of water in the river course is dependent on rainfall, restricting the opportunities for trapping: fieldwork was timed to exploit favourable conditions for water depth, flow rate and temperature.
Fieldwork was timed to follow rainfall, providing optimum conditions in both years: there was no wind or rain to disturb traps; clear water gave good views of the substrate in torchlight at night (when tadpoles, often elusive by day, are conspicuous).
Davidar started doing fieldwork at a time when India had few other women field biologists.
The gatekeeper is a chief of Tongamea village, Emae (see Fig. 2), who, at the time fieldwork was undertaken, was the Vanuatu consul in New Caledonia.
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By the time fieldwork for this study commenced in August 2012, the activities of the VHTs had ground to a halt following the termination of the AMREF project.
Thus the fieldwork at the time of evaluation had to take a more qualitative turn and the existing reports, key interviews, and other documents were used for getting the required data.
