Sample name: Zaraninge Forest (wet season)

Reference: H. Y. D. Kiwia. 2006. Species richness and abundance estimates of small mammals in Zaraninge Coastal Forest in Tanzania. Tanzania Journal of Science 32(2):51-60 [ER 843]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAP: 1150.0

Habitat comments: "Zaraninge Dry Evergreen Coastal Forest" with "short rains... between October and December and long rains... between April and June"; MAP 900 to 1400
commercially logged "between 1950s and 1980s" but logging ended in 1985

Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sampling methods: line transect,Sherman traps,snap traps,Tomahawk traps

Sample size: 185 individuals

Years: 1994 - 1996

Days: 60

Seasons: wet or monsoon

Nets or traps: 121

Net or trap nights: 7260

Sampling comments: ten "1 m line transects" each sampled with 62 snap traps, 40 Sherman traps, and 18 to 20 Tomahawk traps; stations were separated by 5 m and included one trap each, and trapping was done over 60 days

Sample number: 1195

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-13 16:36:27

Modified: 2015-02-13 09:06:58