Sample name: Las Vegas Valley

Reference: T. Garland Jr and W. G. Bradley. 1984. Effects of a highway on Mojave Desert rodent populations. American Midland Naturalist 111(1):47-56 [ER 1643]

Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 17.9

MAP: 160.0

Habitat comments: "a creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) community"
climate data are from Amundson et al. (1989, Geoderma) and are for a point at 840 m in the Las Vegas Valley

Life forms: rodents

Site area: 9

Sampling methods: quadrat,baited,Sherman traps

Sample size: 612 individuals

Days: 48

Nets or traps: 250

Net or trap nights: 12000

Sampling comments: "A 9-ha, 250-station grid (25x10) was marked with wooden stakes placed at 20-m intervals. Rows were oriented parallel to the highway... Twelve trapping periods were conducted. One Sherman live trap (7.6x7.6x25.4 cm) baited with oats was placed at or within 1 m of each grid stake... Traps were checked the next 4 mornings"

Sample number: 1848

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-12-20 16:30:12

Modified: 2015-12-20 05:30:12