Sample name: Lubbock

Reference: E. E. Jorgensen, S. Demarais, and W. R. Whitworth. 1994. The effect of box-trap design on rodent captures. Southwestern Naturalist 39(3):291-294 [ER 976]

Habitat: temperate savanna

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 26.9

CMT: 4.7

MAP: 429.0

Habitat comments: "shrub grassland comprising dense ground cover of graminoids with interspersed patches of tumbleweed"
climate data are based on station 72267 (Lubbock airport)

Life forms: rodents

Site area: 1.0

Sampling methods: quadrat, baited, cage traps, Sherman traps

Sample size: 395 individuals

Days: 10

Nets or traps: 200

Net or trap nights: 2000

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "100 pairs of traps were placed in a 10 x 10 grid (trap spacing = 10 m) for five consecutive nights" and sampling was then repeated in "an adjacent location"; traps were "baited with quick oats" and each pair "consisted of one Sherman folding aluminum trap" and "one Trip-Itt, non-folding trap... constructed of wire mesh"

Sample no: 1463

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-03-03 11:38:05

Modified: 2015-10-09 09:36:38