Sample name: LaBiche River Valley

Reference: T. S. Jung, A. M. Runck, D. W. Nagorsen, B. G. Slough, and T. Powell. 2006. First records of the southern red-backed vole, Myodes gapperi, in the Yukon. Canadian Field-Naturalist 120(3):331-334 [ER 3248]

Habitat: boreal forest/taiga

Protection: unprotected

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: "wet meadows and shrub thickets adjacent to Beaver (Castor canadensis) ponds; xeric grassy meadows; riparian old-growth White Spruce (Picea glauca) forest; lowland Black Spruce (Picea mariana) forest; subalpine old-growth Spruce-fir (Abies lasiocarpa)forest; second-growth mixedwood forest; and regenerating clearcut forest"

Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sampling methods: line transect,baited,pitfall traps,snap traps

Sample size: 62 individuals

Years: 2004

Days: 6

Seasons: summer

Sampling comments: "We used pitfall and snap traps... We established 14 variable length traplines (ca. 100 m – 250 m) in each of the seven habitat types. Trap stations were
set 10 m apart on the traplines. One Museum Special snap trap and one Victor snap trap... were set at each trapping station" and "baited with oats and peanut butter... Pitfall traps were also arranged in traplines with one trapline in each of the wet meadows sampled. Traps were spaced about 10 m apart, with 15 or 20 traps per trapline... Pitfall traps were not baited"
number of trap nights is not stated and not computable from the text

Sample number: 3578

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-12-25 12:34:05

Modified: 2019-12-25 01:34:05