Sample name: Park Ranger Station No. 1

Sample aka: Everglades National Park

Reference: C. B. Worth. 1950. Observations on ectoparasites of some small mammals in Everglades National Park and Hillsborough County, Florida. Journal of Parasitology 36(4):326-335 [ER 963]

Habitat: temperate savanna

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 23.5

MAP: 1643.0

Habitat comments: trapping was along a "two-mile stretch of road" with "moist grasslands that were once cultivated" as well as in "hammocks" that "are densely wooded and slightly elevated above the surrounding plains"
climate data are for Homestead and are from Pool et al. (1977, Biotropica)

Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sampling methods: no design,Havahart traps,Sherman traps

Sample size: 146 individuals

Days: 15

Sampling comments: trapping was "for 15 consecutive nights" using "small metal Sherman traps; wooden box traps... and small and large wire-mesh 'Hav-a-hart'" traps. Stations were set at 0.2-mile intervals" along the road or "at the edge of, or within, hardwood hammocks"

Sample number: 1450

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-03-02 13:33:12

Modified: 2015-12-01 08:20:10