Sample name: Fort Sill (Foard soils)

Reference: S. A. Leis, D. M. Leslie Jr, D. M. Engle, and J. S. Fehmi. 2008. Small mammals as indicators of short-term and long-term disturbance in mixed prairie. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 137(1-3):75-84 [ER 1624]

Habitat: temperate savanna

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 28.0

CMT: 3.0

MAP: 823.0

Habitat comments: "characterized by short and mid-level grasses... Disturbances included military vehicle use (tracked and wheeled of various weights), encampments, and land-navigation exercises (e.g., training on foot)... grazing by large ungulates did not occur during our study"

Life forms: rodents

Sites: 5

Sampling methods: line transect,baited,Sherman traps

Sample size: 142 individuals

Days: 16

Seasons: spring,summer,autumn

Nets or traps: 150

Net or trap nights: 2400

Sampling comments: at each of five locations "we established a permanent 3 × 5 trapping grid" consisting of "two Sherman live traps (7.6 × 8.9 × 22.9 cm) baited with oatmeal... placed less than 0.5 m apart at each of 15 stations separated by 10 m... Traps were... checked each morning for four consecutive nights during the new moon in May, June, August, and September 2003"

Sample number: 1835

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-12-16 16:36:31

Modified: 2015-12-16 05:36:31