Sample name: Crater Mountain Biological Research Station (trapping session 2)

Reference: E. Kale, N. Whitmore, A. L. Mack, and D. D. Wright. 2012. Survival rates of Rattus verecundus and Paramelomys platyops in a murid rich tropical rainforest of Papua New Guinea. Pacific Conservation Biology 18:26-32 [ER 866]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 28.0

MAP: 6400.0

Habitat comments: "primary forest"
climate data based on Bickford (2004, Behav Ecol Sociobiol); MAT estimated from average daily range of 14 to 42

Life forms: rodents

Sites: 1

Sampling methods: quadrat,baited,Elliott traps,Tomahawk traps

Sample size: 86 individuals

Years: 2005

Nets or traps: 64

Net or trap nights: 2432

Sampling comments: 7 x 8 grid of 56 trapping stations encompassing 6.7 ha, with stations set 40 m apart and each including two peanut butter and rolled oats-baited Elliott live traps (one on the ground, the other on a trunk or twigs), plus a "rolled oats, peanut butter, biscuits and tinned fish"-baited Tomahawk trap set every 80 m (apparently meaning 8 traps); there were 2128 Elliott trap nights and 304 Tomahawk trap nights

Sample number: 1236

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-16 22:03:42

Modified: 2015-10-04 22:14:12