Sample name: Bearden

Reference: J. C. Howell. 1954. Populations and home ranges of small mammals on an overgrown field. Journal of Mammalogy 35(2):177-186 [ER 2561]

Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: "an overgrown field" with "bare ground" and "saplings that were as much as ten years old" with no crops and no grazing

Life forms: rodents, other small mammals

Sites: 1

Site area: 5.908

Sampling methods: quadrat, other traps

Sample size: 166 individuals

Years: 1951

Days: 22

Seasons: summer

Nets or traps: 100

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "The circular study area had a radius of 450 feet and an area of 14.6 acres. Trapping stations were placed at 50-foot intervals around each of nine concentric circles which were spaced 50 feet apart. There was a total of 277 stations... One hundred live-traps were used... The traps were first put on the area on the afternoon of July 28, 1951, and were removed after running them on August 25, 1951"

Sample no: 2848

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-12-06 19:04:29

Modified: 2017-12-06 08:04:29