Karasuk
Basic information
Sample name: Karasuk
Reference: T. A. Dupal, Z. M. Sergazinova, N. T. Erzhanov, and Y. N. Litvinov. 2017. Preliminary assessment of changes in the structure of small mammal communities caused by industrial pollution in the north Kazakhstan region. Contemporary Problems of Ecology 10(6):700-706 [ER 3240]
Geography
Country: Russia
Coordinate: 54° 43' N, 78° 3' E
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: "in the outskirts of the village of Troitskoe and 15 km away from the town of Karasuk in Novosibirsk oblast at the Karasuk research station of the Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences... 200 km northeast of Pavlodar"
coordinate based on Karasuk
coordinate based on Karasuk
Environment
Habitat: temperate savanna
Protection: unprotected
Substrate: ground surface
Habitat comments: "Volga fescue-grasses-forbs steppe, Stipa and Volga fescue steppe along a forest belt, a farm field overgrown with grasses and forbs, and a wet lakeshore meadow covered with grasses and forbs on the shore of Krotovo Lake"
Methods
Life forms: rodents, other small mammals
Sites: 4
Sampling methods: pitfall traps
Sample size: 138 specimens
Years: 2016
Days: 30
Seasons: summer
Net or trap nights: 770
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "Field operations were conducted from June to August in 2016" and "four test sites" were sampled
"Species were collected using 50-m-long pitfall traps for 10 days every month. Leaving 5 m from the edge, five cones were pushed (dug) into the trench bottom 10 m apart"
"Species were collected using 50-m-long pitfall traps for 10 days every month. Leaving 5 m from the edge, five cones were pushed (dug) into the trench bottom 10 m apart"
Metadata
Sample no: 3568
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-12-23 20:55:41
Modified: 2019-12-23 09:55:41
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
10 species
1 singleton
total count 138
geometric series index: 13.4
Fisher's α: 2.476
geometric series k: 0.6816
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7325
Shannon's H: 1.7
Good's u: 0.9929
Register
| Sorex araneus | 12 | |
| Sorex tundrensis | 25 | 6.4 g |
| Sorex minutus | 14 | |
| Apodemus agrarius | 3 | |
| Apodemus uralensis | 2 | |
| Micromys minutus | 7 | |
| Arvicola amphibius | 1 | |
| Stenocranius gregalis | 63 | |
| "Microtus gregalis" | ||
| Alexandromys oeconomus | 6 | |
| "Microtus oeconomus" | ||
| Microtus mystacinus | 5 | |
| "Microtus levis" | ||