Sample name: Anticosti Island

Reference: G. Darmon, B. Hidding, S. de Bellefeuille, J.-P. Tremblay, and S. D. Côté. 2013. A generalist rodent benefits from logging regardless of deer density. Ecoscience 20(4):319-327 [ER 2519]

Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: selective logging

WMT: 16.1

CMT: -11.5

MAP: 917.0

Habitat comments: "cold maritime... The forest ecosystem belongs to the eastern balsam fir (Abies balsamea)-white birch (Betula papyrifera) bioclimatic sub-domain... The deer mouse is the only small mammal species that has ever been recorded on Anticosti Island"
sampling was "6 and 7 y after logging and fencing"

Life forms: rodents

Sampling methods: quadrat, baited, Sherman traps

Sample size: 1014 individuals

Years: 2007, 2008

Seasons: summer

Nets or traps: 147

Net or trap nights: 3920

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "Within each treatment, 49 Sherman traps were placed 15 m apart to form a grid (90 x 90 m) distributed over the 3 habitat types" which were cut blocks, edge, and forest; there were "196 traps per block... simultaneously activated during 4 consecutive nights from dusk to dawn, in 2 successive months (July and August) each year. In 2008, an additional capture session was performed in June (3920 trap-nights in total)... Traps were baited with pieces of apple dipped in peanut butter"

Sample no: 2825

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-11-30 13:52:48

Modified: 2017-11-30 02:52:48