Sample name: Caucaia do Alto (pitfall traps)

Reference: F. Umetsu, L. Naxara, and R. Pardini. 2006. Evaluating the efficiency of pitfall traps for sampling small mammals in the Neotropics. Journal of Mammalogy 87(4):757-765 [ER 850]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 19.0

MAP: 1350.0

Habitat comments: "a transition between the coastal Atlantic rain forest and the Atlantic semideciduous forest, classified as 'Lower Montane Atlantic Rain Forest'"; 23 of 26 sites were in "secondary forest from 50 to 80 years old"
mean max/min 27/11
rainfall 1300 to 1400 mm and is "seasonably variable"

Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sites: 26

Sampling methods: drift fences,pitfall traps

Sample size: 1420 individuals

Years: 2002 - 2005

Days: 74

Nets or traps: 11

Net or trap nights: 462

Sampling comments: at each of the 26 sites there was "a 100-m sequence of 11 pitfall traps... connected by a 500-mm-tall plastic drift fence"; pitfall trap sessions totalled 74 days and 462 trap nights

Sample number: 1202

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-14 19:54:52

Modified: 2015-02-14 08:57:12