Sample name: Fort Bliss

Reference: E. E. Jorgensen, S. Demarais, and W. R. Whitworth. 1994. The effect of box-trap design on rodent captures. Southwestern Naturalist 39(3):291-294 [ER 976]

Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 28.2

CMT: 7.2

MAP: 249.0

Habitat comments: "shrub-desert; ground cover was 20% and consisted of various graminoides growing within the bases of shrubs, cacti, and yucca"
climate data are based o station 72270 (El Paso International Aiport, which is adjacent to Fort Bliss)

Life forms: rodents

Site area: 2.0

Sampling methods: quadrat, baited, cage traps, Sherman traps

Sample size: 87 individuals

Days: 17

Net or trap nights: 600

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "20 and 15 pairs were placed for 9 and 8 nights respectively within two 100 by 100 m areas"; traps were "baited with quick oats" and each pair "consisted of one Sherman folding aluminum trap" and "one Trip-Itt, non-folding trap... constructed of wire mesh"

Sample no: 1464

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-03-03 11:41:33

Modified: 2015-10-09 09:38:24