Raft River Valley
Basic information
Sample name: Raft River Valley

Reference: D. R. Johnson. 1961. The food habits of rodents on rangelands of southern Idaho. Ecology 42(2):407-410 [ER 977]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Idaho


Coordinate: 42° 19' N, 113° 22' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: "in the Raft River Valley, near Malta" with some individuals of minor species possibly but probably not captured at other sites (text is unclear) (coordinate based on Malta)

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Environment
Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland

Altered habitat: pasture

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 21.1

CMT: -2.8

MAP: 296.0

Habitat comments: "sagebrush and shadscale associations" under "heavy use by livestock"
climate data are averaged for Burley an Albion and are from Tisdale and Zappetini (1953, Journal of Range Management)

Methods
Life forms: rodents

Sites: 5

Sampling methods: line transect,baited,snap traps

Sample size: 846 individuals

Years: 1957

Sampling comments: "rolled oats" baited "Museum Special traps placed in transect lines of 50 traps each" with most trapping at five sites (number of lines not stated and no other details are given)

Metadata
Sample number: 1465

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-03-03 12:32:18

Modified: 2015-12-01 09:48:58

Abundance distribution
11 species
0 singletons
total count 846
geometric series index: 11.8
Fisher's α: 1.785
geometric series k: 0.6444
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7191
Shannon's H: 1.6508
Good's u: 1.0000
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Register
Peromyscus maniculatus40519.1 g
Neotamias minimus84
"Eutamias minimus"
Reithrodontomys megalotis7610.3 g
Dipodomys ordii11148.9 g
Dipodomys microps10353.6 g
Urocitellus townsendii6193 g
"Spermophilus townsendii"
Perognathus longimembris107.5 g
Perognathus parvus2321.8 g
Neotoma lepida6117 g
Onychomys leucogaster1734.7 g
Lemmiscus curtatus530.3 g
"Lagurus curtatus"