Sample name: Altura

Reference: A. E. Jimenez, F. Vargas Herrera, M. Salman, and M. V. Herrero. 2000. Survey of small rodents and hematophagous flies in three sentinel farms in a Costa Rican vesicular stomatitis endemic region. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 916(1):453-463 [ER 900]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: pasture

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 26.0

MAP: 4260.0

Habitat comments: a dairy farm in an area of "lower mountain rain forest"
climate data are for La Selva and are from Kennedy and Horn (2008)

Life forms: rodents

Sampling methods: baited,Sherman traps

Sample size: 257 individuals

Days: 36

Nets or traps: 100

Net or trap nights: 3600

Sampling comments: 100 Sherman traps "set once a month for three consecutive days on each farm during the 12 months of the study... bait consisted of a mixture of oats, peanut butter, and vanilla"

Sample number: 1348

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-22 21:46:26

Modified: 2015-12-26 10:06:12