Sample name: Atacama Desert (Puna biome)

Reference: F. M. Jaksic, J. C. Torres-Mura, C. Cornelius, and P. A. Marquet. 1999. Small mammals of the Atacama Desert (Chile). Journal of Arid Environments 42:129-135 [ER 957]

Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 6.5

MAP: 66.0

Habitat comments: "Puna" mostly dominated by the shrub Parastrephia
climate data are the mean for two sites at 3745 m near Paso de Jama reported by Quade et al. (2007, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta)

Life forms: rodents

Sites: 5

Site area: 3.95

Sampling methods: quadrat,baited,Sherman traps

Sample size: 96 individuals

Days: 3

Nets or traps: 432

Net or trap nights: 1296

Sampling comments: "Small mammals were trapped using grids of six columns by eight rows, with each trapping station separated 15 m and equipped with one medium Sherman trap, baited with rolled oats. Each grid of 48 traps/0,79-ha was operated during three consecutive nights. In each site two grids were set" except at one of the five sites

Sample number: 1443

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-03-02 11:05:01

Modified: 2015-10-05 09:24:57