Savannah River Site (U1)
Basic information
Sample name: Savannah River Site (U1)

Reference: S. C. Loeb. 1999. Responses of small mammals to coarse woody debris in a southeastern pine forest. Journal of Mammalogy 80(2):460-471 [ER 2524]
Geography
Country: United States

State: South Carolina


Coordinate: 33° 1' N, 81° 4' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "in Aiken and Barnwell counties"
coordinate is for the Savannah River Site and is from Leberg and Smith (1993, Journal of Mammalogy)

Environment
Habitat: temperate coniferous forest

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 18.0

MAP: 1225.0

Habitat comments: "within a 121-ha managed pine stand that was regenerated in 1958"
climate data are for the Savannah River Site and are from Champlin et al. (2009, Southeastern Naturalist)

Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sampling methods: quadrat,baited,pitfall traps,Sherman traps,other traps

Sample size: 99 individuals

Years: 1991 - 1994

Days: 85

Seasons: winter,spring,summer,autumn

Nets or traps: 77

Net or trap nights: 6545

Sampling comments: a "7 by 7 trapping grid with 20-m spacing between traps" including 28 Sherman traps, 28 Moseby wooden box traps, and 21 pitfall traps, with no drift fences being used
"Sherman traps and pitfall traps were baited with sunflower seeds, and box traps were baited with corn"
"Trapping was conducted for 8 consecutive nights in August and November 1990, February and May 1991, and January-February 1992 and for 9 consecutive nights in May 1992, January and April 1993, and February and May 1994"

Metadata
Sample number: 2837

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-12-01 21:07:08

Modified: 2017-12-01 10:07:08

Abundance distribution
7 species
3 singletons
total count 99
extrapolated richness: 14.3
Fisher's α: 1.720
geometric series k: 0.4870
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4021
Shannon's H: 0.8904
Good's u: 0.9697
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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