Drivers Flat (rodents)
Basic information
Sample name: Drivers Flat (rodents)
Reference: S. A. Wright, M. A. Thompson, M. J. Miller, K. M. Knerl, S. L. Elms, J. C. Karpowicz, J. F. Young, and V. L. Kramer. 2000. Ecology of Borrelia burgdorferi in ticks (Acari: Ixodidae), rodents, and birds in the Sierra Nevada Foothills, Placer County, California. Journal of Medical Entomology 37(6):909-918 [ER 3279]
Geography
Country: United States
State: California
County: Placer
Coordinate: 39° 58' N, 121° 57' W
Latlng basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "on the Forest Hill Divide above the North Fork of the American River"
Environment
Habitat: temperate coniferous forest
Protection: unprotected
Substrate: ground surface
Habitat comments: vegetation is dominated by pine, fir, oak, madrone, manzanita, and deer brush
Methods
Life forms: rodents
Sampling methods: no design, Sherman traps, other traps
Sample size: 133 captures or sightings
Years: 1997, 1998
Days: 4
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "Two National traps and four Sherman traps were placed at each of 65 woodrat houses. National traps were placed overnight for two consecutive nights in February and May 1997, and Sherman traps on single nights in June and August 1998" (number of Sherman traps is not stated)
Metadata
Sample no: 3627
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2020-05-26 12:13:46
Modified: 2020-05-26 02:13:46
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
4 species
0 singleton
total count 133
geometric series index: 4.9
Fisher's α: 0.777
geometric series k: 0.4166
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5048
Shannon's H: 0.8612
Good's u: 1
Register
| Neotoma fuscipes | 83 | 201.0 g |
| Peromyscus truei | 42 | 19.3 g |
| Peromyscus maniculatus | 6 | 19.1 g |
| Reithrodontomys megalotis | 2 | 10.3 g |