Hopland Research and Extension Center (chaparral)
Basic information
Sample name: Hopland Research and Extension Center (chaparral)
Reference: L. Casher, R. Lane, R. Barrett, and L. Eisen. 2002. Relative importance of lizards and mammals as hosts for ixodid ticks in northern California. Experimental and Applied Acarology 26:127-143 [ER 2944]
Geography
Country: United States
State: California
Coordinate: 38° 58' N, 123° 7' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: coordinate is based on Hopland
elevation 720 to 830 m
elevation 720 to 830 m
Environment
Habitat: temperate savanna
Protection: other protected area
Substrate: ground surface
MAP: 937.0
Habitat comments: "The climate in this area is Mediterranean... Primary vegetational types include oak (Quercus spp.) and Pacific madrone (Arbutus menziesii) woodlands... open grasslands, and chaparral"
Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals,lizards
Sampling methods: quadrat,baited,pitfall traps,Sherman traps
Sample size: 913 individuals
Years: 1992, 1993
Days: 44
Nets or traps: 450
Sampling comments: "225 trap stations (15 by 15 stations, spaced 10 m apart), each with a Sherman live trap... and a pit-fall trap" both "baiteed with a mixture of rolled corn, oats, barley, and cane molasses... In addition, southern alligator lizards were caught by hand in the woodland-grass area" but these are excluded from the register
Metadata
Sample number: 3126
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2018-12-27 15:42:54
Modified: 2018-12-27 04:42:54
Abundance distribution
15 species
1 singleton
total count 913
extrapolated richness: 17.3
Fisher's α: 2.549
geometric series k: 0.6632
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8277
Shannon's H: 2.1141
Good's u: 0.9989
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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Register
| Dipodomys californicus | 80 | |
| Microtus californicus | 28 | |
| Neotoma fuscipes | 75 | 201 g |
| Peromyscus boylii | 71 | 23.2 g |
| Peromyscus maniculatus | 116 | 19.1 g |
| Peromyscus truei | 100 | 19.3 g |
| Reithrodontomys megalotis | 29 | 10.3 g |
| Sorex vagrans | 17 | 5.3 g |
| Otospermophilus beecheyi | 2 | |
| "Spermophilus beecheyi" | ||
| Sylvilagus bachmani | 6 | |
| Neotamias sonomae | 20 | |
| "Tamias sonomae" | ||
| Aspidoscelis tigris | 11 | |
| "Cnemidophorus tigris" | ||
| Eumeces skiltonianus | 43 | |
| Sceloporus graciolus | 1 | |
| Sceloporus occidentalis | 314 | |
Current reference:
Huckleberry et al. 2001 (ER 3215)