Fundo Pecuario Masaguaral
Basic information
Sample name: Fundo Pecuario Masaguaral

Reference: M. A. O'Connell. 1989. Population dynamics of Neotropical small mammals in seasonal habitats. Journal of Mammalogy 70(3):532-548 [ER 1579]
Geography
Country: Venezuela

State: Guârico


Coordinate: 8° 24' N, 67° 35' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "about 45 km S Calabozo, Guârico"
elevation 0 to 75 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: grazing

MAT: 28.2

MAP: 1500.0

Habitat comments: "a working ranch" encompassing "savanna and gallery forest" that was also "managed as a wildlife sanctuary for about the last 35 years. The terrain is nearly flat"
"average maximum [temperature] is 35.2ºC and the average minimum is 21.2ºC... Virtually all... annual rainfall occurs from May through November"

Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

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

Sample size: 639 individuals

Years: 1975 - 1977

Nets or traps: 145

Net or trap nights: 19145

Sampling comments: "a 4-ha trapping grid with 100 stations at 20-m intervals in a 10 by 10 configuration" with "one Sherman live trap (23 by 9 by 7.5 cm) per station. Larger National traps (46 by 15 by 15 cm) were set... at 25 stations" and 20 "National traps (38 by 13 by 13 cm)... were placed 1.7 to 3 m high in trees and vines... Traps were baited with cracked corn and banana"; trap night total is stated

Metadata
Sample number: 1815

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-12-09 15:44:22

Modified: 2015-12-09 04:44:22

Abundance distribution
7 species
0 singletons
total count 639
geometric series index: 7.3
Fisher's α: 1.099
geometric series k: 0.4958
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5703
Shannon's H: 1.2497
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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