Sample name: Trelease Woods (autumn 1938, plot UU)

Reference: R. G. Lindeborg. 1941. Fluctuations in the abundance of small mammals in east-central Illinois, 1936-1939. Ecology 22(1):96-99 [ER 964]

Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 23.9

CMT: -4.6

MAP: 1010.0

Habitat comments: trees are principally white elm, red elm, and sugar maple; "Until 1917 the area was grazed and a few trees had been cut down; since then it has been undisturbed and can be considered a heavily wooded 'virgin area"
climate data are for Champaign and are from Lin et al. (2004, Plant Ecology)

Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sampling methods: quadrat,baited,snap traps

Sample size: 44 individuals

Years: 1938

Seasons: autumn

Sampling comments: "snap-back" traps with "bait consisted of ground raisins, peanut butter, ground bacon ends, and enough rolled oats or corn meal added to make the mixture easy to handle"; an unclear number of traps were set in a square shape (the description of trap configurations is not tied to this plot)

Sample number: 1451

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-03-02 13:49:15

Modified: 2015-12-01 08:24:41