Project ALE (1967)
Basic information
Sample name: Project ALE (1967)

Reference: T. P. O'Farrell, R. J. Olson, R. O. Gilbert, and J. D. Hedlund. 1975. A population of Great Basin pocket mice, Perognathus parvus, in the shrub-steppe of south-central Washington. Ecological Monographs 45(1):1-28 [ER 1642]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Washington


County: Benton


Coordinate: 46° 30' N, 119° 40' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "on the U.S Atomic Energy Commission's Hanford Reservation... 2.4 km southeast of Rattlesnake Springs" and "approximately 16 km" from the Columbia River

Environment
Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 11.7

MAP: 159.0

Habitat comments: shrub-steppe covered with "Artemisia/Poa" i.e. "big sagebrush/Sandberg blue grass"

Methods
Life forms: rodents

Site area: 2.7

Sampling methods: quadrat,baited,Sherman traps

Sample size: 679 individuals

Years: 1967

Days: 44

Net or trap nights: 7210

Sampling comments: "Sherman live-traps (8 X 9 X 30 cm) were arranged in a 20 X 20 grid of 400 sites with I0-m spacing... Each trap contained enough seeds to prevent torpor... we prebaited traps by placing a small quantity of peanut butter/oatmeal mixture in front of each closed trap" (ratio of 7210 "Trap/nights" to 44 "Number of sessions" doesn't square with trap count of 400)

Metadata
Sample number: 1847

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-12-20 16:16:40

Modified: 2015-12-20 05:16:40

Abundance distribution
4 species
1 singleton
total count 679
geometric series index: 5.5
Fisher's α: 0.564
geometric series k: 0.1203
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.2663
Shannon's H: 0.4995
Good's u: 0.9985
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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