Sample name: Atley Station

Reference: G. G. Thompson. 1996. A lizard and snake census on Atley Station. Western Australian Naturalist 21(1):59-63 [ER 3298]

Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland

Protection: unprotected

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: "red loamy soils which support a vegetation consisting mainly of patches of spinifex (Triodia sp.) grasses and small trees" predominantly being Acacia

Life forms: other small mammals,lizards,snakes

Sampling methods: pitfall traps

Sample size: 246 captures or sightings

Years: 1991

Days: 30

Nets or traps: 60

Sampling comments: "Sixty 20 litre plastic buckets were installed as pit-traps with 5 m of 300 mm high fly-wire drift-fencing between 22 and 25 November 1991... The pit-traps were laid in 10 rows of 6, with approximately 50 m between rows and 30 m between pit-traps in each row" and all captured surviving specimens were marked and released (not clear if the counts are of captures or individuals)
traps were inspected "from the 22 to 30 September and 24 November to 14 December 1991"

Sample number: 3671

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2020-06-08 20:02:48

Modified: 2020-06-08 10:02:48