Sample name: Karoo Biome Research Site

Reference: G. I. H. Kerley. 1992. Small mammal seed consumption in the Karoo, South Africa: further evidence for divergence in desert biotic processes. Oecologia 89(4):471-475 [ER 971]

Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 17.5

MAP: 167.0

Habitat comments: "dwarf shrubland dominated by Pteronia pallens and Eberlanzia ferox"
within the Prince Albert Succulent Karoo bioregion according to Mucina et al. (2006, Strelizia)
MAP reported in text; MAT based on Mucina et al.

Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Site length: 100

Site width: 100

Sampling methods: quadrat,baited,Sherman traps

Sample size: 137 individuals

Years: 1987, 1988

Days: 52

Nets or traps: 100

Net or trap nights: 5200

Sampling comments: "Trapping was conducted monthly" over 13 months "using Sherman traps... baited with peanut butter and rolled oats and equipped with a small woolen blanket. For each sampling session 100 traps were set for four nights, 10 m apart, on a permanently marked 10 x 10 grid"

Sample number: 1458

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-03-02 16:24:04

Modified: 2015-10-09 06:26:09