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Basic information
Sample name: Churchill (1952)

Reference: D. A. Smith and J. B. Foster. 1957. Notes on the small mammals of Churchill, Manitoba. Journal of Mammalogy 38(1):98-115 [ER 1593]
Geography
Country: Canada

State: Manitoba


Coordinate: 58° 46' N, 94° 10' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: coordinate based on Churchill

Environment
Habitat: boreal forest/taiga

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: -6.9

WMT: 12.0

CMT: -26.7

MAP: 432.0

Habitat comments: in the "transition between the boreal forest... and the tundra" but most trapping was "in forested areas and on the rock ridge"
climate data are based on Tardif et al. (2008, Chemical Geology) and are for Churchill

Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Site area: 0.405

Sampling methods: quadrat,Sherman traps,snap traps

Sample size: 81 individuals

Years: 1952

Seasons: summer

Net or trap nights: 2427

Sampling comments: "lines or plots of Museum Special break-back traps and Sherman live-traps" with all trapping this year "carried out in a one-acre plot"

Metadata
Sample number: 1820

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-12-11 17:10:03

Modified: 2015-12-11 06:10:03

Abundance distribution
6 species
1 singleton
total count 81
extrapolated richness: 9.4
Fisher's α: 1.496
geometric series k: 0.4409
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4230
Shannon's H: 0.9202
Good's u: 0.9880
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Current reference: Kowalski 1956 (ER 2370)