Sample name: Uzungwa Scarp Forest Reserve (2000 m)

Reference: W. T. Stanley, P. M. Kihaule, K. M. Howell, and R. Hutterer. 1998. Small mammals of the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania. Journal of East African Natural History 87(1):91-100 [ER 925]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Protection: forest reserve

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 27.0

CMT: 19.0

MAP: 1900.0

Habitat comments: no description of environment at all: probably "evergreen moist montane forest" based on Araldi et al. 2014
CMT, MWT, and MAP based on Hegerl et al. (2015)

Life forms: rodents

Sampling methods: drift fences,pitfall traps,Sherman traps,snap traps

Sample size: 86 individuals

Sampling comments: pitfall traps plus drift fences, Museum Specials, Victor Rat Traps, and Sherman Traps were all used; "Traps were baited daily with a mixture of freshly fried coconut and peanut butter"; no clear indication of sampling effort
a few shrews may be excluded from the counts (see Fig. 2)

Sample number: 1398

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-25 21:29:43

Modified: 2016-01-20 05:47:48