Sample name: Delta Waterfowl Research Station

Reference: G. C. Sanderson. 1950. Small-mammal population of a prairie grove. Journal of Mammalogy 31(1):17-25 [ER 962]

Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 1.5

WMT: 19.1

CMT: -19.8

MAP: 499.0

Habitat comments: "a small wooded area surrounded by prairie" that was "cleared... of trees in 1929" and "had been uncut for eighteen years when this study was made"; the "principal trees" were choke cherry, bur oak, and red osier dogwood
climate data are based on Shay (1999, University of Manitoba Field Station (Delta Marsh) Occasional Publication)

Life forms: rodents, other small mammals

Sampling methods: quadrat, baited, snap traps

Sample size: 140 individuals

Years: 1947

Days: 31

Nets or traps: 103

Net or trap nights: 2966

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "'museum special'" snap traps baited with "a mixture of peanut butter and bacon grease" were used... Fifty-three traps were set six to ten feet apart in a grid" and another 50 "small snap traps" were deployed "twenty days after the start of trapping" and then another "six lines of sixteen traps" were set "Eight days later"; total trap nights are stated

Sample no: 1449

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-03-02 13:07:16

Modified: 2015-10-08 09:53:44