Sample name: Fort Bayard Allotment (untreated woodland)

Reference: K. E. Severson. 1986. Small mammals in modified pinyon-juniper woodlands, New Mexico. Journal of Range Management 39(1):31-34 [ER 1614]

Habitat: temperate coniferous forest

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Protection: national/state forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 12.8

WMT: 22.6

CMT: 3.5

MAP: 393.0

Habitat comments: "Important trees and shrubs" included pinyon, one-seed juniper, alligator juniper, gray oak, and hairy mountain mahogany
"The pinyon-juniper control treatments... were established as part of a mule deer... and elk... habitat study" and are therefore secondary forest

Life forms: rodents

Sampling methods: line transect,baited,snap traps

Sample size: 245 individuals

Years: 1981 - 1983

Days: 12

Seasons: autumn

Nets or traps: 204

Net or trap nights: 2448

Sampling comments: "6 sampling areas" with "2 transects... randomly placed in each. Each transect consisted of 17 trapping locations spaced 10 m apart. Each location consisted of 2 traps, a standard rat trap, and a museum special. Trapping was conducted during the second and third weeks of September each year. Traps were baited with a mixture of peanut butter, oatmeal, and an ant repellent... only 3 transects were run within each treatment for 4 consecutive days" each year and there were two treatment areas, so there were 816 trap nights a year

Sample number: 1829

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-12-15 20:39:18

Modified: 2018-06-30 10:59:09