Sample name: Fazenda Santa Fé

Reference: R. G. Rocha, E. Ferreira, Y. L. R. Leite, C. Fonseca, and L. P. Costa. 2011. Small mammals in the diet of Barn owls, Tyto alba (Aves: Strigiformes) along the mid-Araguaia River in central Brazil. Zoologia 28(6):709-716 [ER 1551]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 26.4

CMT: 25.1

MAP: 1755.0

Habitat comments: "a 65,000 ha private ranch, managed for cattle ranching, with about 65% of its area still covered with semi-deciduous forest. The forested area is concentrated near the riverbank" and trapping was concentrated "along the mid-Araguaia River"
climate data are for the middle Araguaia River basin and are from Sawakuchi et al. (2013, Open Journal of Forestry)

Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sampling methods: line transect,drift fences,pitfall traps,Sherman traps,Tomahawk traps

Sample size: 180 individuals

Years: 2007, 2008

Net or trap nights: 13860

Sampling comments: four sampling points, with each consisting of "a transect of sixteen 30 L pitfalls with drift fences; a transect with ten 60 L pitfalls with drift fences (except at FLV, where burying large pitfalls in waterlogged soil was unfeasible); a mixed transect with 22 Sherman traps (45 x 12.5 x 14.5 cm) and ten Tomahawk traps (45 x 21 x 21 cm) placed on the ground; and a mixed transect with four Sherman traps and four Tomahawk traps placed in the understory"

Sample number: 1805

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-11-29 08:39:04

Modified: 2015-12-02 10:44:53