Sample name: Prince Albert Model Forest

Reference: E. M. Bayne and K. A. Hobson. 1998. The effects of habitat fragmentation by forestry and agriculture on the abundance of small mammals in the southern boreal mixedwood forest. Canadian Journal of Zoology 76:62-69 [ER 1600]

Habitat: boreal forest/taiga

Altered habitat: fragment

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 0.4

MAP: 467.0

Habitat comments: "in the southern boreal mixed-wood zone... mature to old (70-110 years) mixedwood forest stands of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) and white spruce (Picea glauca)" with sites specifically in "farm woodlots" that "ranged in size from 9 to 45 ha"; "leave blocks" that "covered approximately 40 ha" and "contiguous forest sites"
climate data are for Waskesiu Lake and are from Blanken and Black (2004, Hydrological Processes)

Life forms: carnivores,rodents,other small mammals

Sites: 19

Sampling methods: line transect,baited,Havahart traps,Tomahawk traps

Sample size: 1922 individuals

Years: 1994 - 1996

Seasons: summer

Net or trap nights: 8172

Sampling comments: respectively 6, 15, and 19 sites were trapped in 1994, 1995, and 1996 during July and August
"At each edge transect" there were "30 small Tomahawk... and 6 large Havahart... live traps baited with rolled oats and peanut butter"

Sample number: 1823

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-12-12 17:05:03

Modified: 2015-12-12 06:07:23