Sample name: Emas National Park (live traps)

Reference: A. P. Carmignotto, A. M. R. Bezerra, and F. H. G. Rodrigues. 2014. Nonvolant small mammals from a southwestern area of Brazilian Cerrado: diversity, habitat use, seasonality, and biogeography. Therya 5(2):535-558 [ER 1547]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 21.0

MAP: 2100.0

Habitat comments: seven habitat types including a mix of "evergreen gallery forests... grasslands... and... cerrado"
"Tropical, type AW according to Köopen’s classification, with two well defined seasons: the dry season, from May to September, and rainy season, from October to April, with total precipitation varying from 1, 200 to 3, 000 mm per year... mean annual temperature around 20 – 22 ºC"

Life forms: rodents, other small mammals

Sites: 28

Sampling methods: line transect, baited, Sherman traps, other traps

Sample size: 343 individuals

Years: 1998, 1999

Days: 52

Net or trap nights: 10664

Sampling comments: "28 different areas in ENP that represent the seven habitat types... live traps were placed 10 meters apart along linear transects, using both Sherman (7.5 × 8.5 × 23 cm) and Young (19.5 × 20 × 32 cm) traps (2/3 Sherman and 1/3 Young traps)" placed in "transects around 400 meters long (40 live traps)... The bait was a mixture of peanut butter, sardine, banana, and ground maize, adding a little piece of corn in the Young traps"
trap numbers unclear but trap nights stated

Sample number: 1803

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-11-28 20:45:38

Modified: 2015-11-28 09:45:38