Reserva Cuzco Amazónico (1989 snap traps)
Basic information
Sample name: Reserva Cuzco Amazónico (1989 snap traps)

Sample aka: Rio Madre de Dios

Reference: N. Woodman, R. M. Timm, N. A. Slade, and T. J. Doonan. 1996. Comparison of traps and baits for censusing small mammals in Neotropical lowlands. Journal of Mammalogy 77(1):274-281 [ER 837]
Geography
Country: Peru

State: Tambopata


Coordinate: 12° 33' S, 69° 3' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "along the north bank of the Rio Madre de Dios 14 km E of Puerto Maldonado"

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 25.3

MAP: 1927.0

Habitat comments: "evergreen, lowland, tropical forest... transitional between humid tropical forest and dry tropical forest... with a rainy season from October through March and a pronounced dry season from April through September"
climate data are for Puerto Maldonado and are from Quan et al. (2013, Palaeo3)

Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sampling methods: baited,snap traps

Sample size: 170 individuals

Years: 1989

Days: 24

Seasons: dry

Nets or traps: 50

Net or trap nights: 576

Sampling comments: 50 suet or peanut-butter baited snap traps laid out at 25 locations for "12 consecutive days" within "two 500 by 500-m study zones" along one trail and then the same thing along a second trail

Metadata
Sample number: 1186

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-11 20:43:27

Modified: 2015-10-04 09:03:35

Abundance distribution
15 species
3 singletons
total count 170
geometric series index: 24.2
Fisher's α: 3.967
geometric series k: 0.7390
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7742
Shannon's H: 1.9280
Good's u: 0.9826
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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