Sample name: Federal University of Acre

Sample aka: Rio Branco

Reference: M. Amoêdo-Lima, T. Fernandes-Martins, S. Muñoz-Leal, E. Guilherme, M. Ogrzewalska, and M. Bahia Labruna. 2018. Ticks and tick-associated spotted fever group Rickettsia from birds in the Southwestern Brazilian Amazon. Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Pecuarias 31(1):26-35 [ER 3264]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: inhabited area

Protection: unprotected

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 26.1

MAP: 1951.0

Habitat comments: "The rainy season is long and spans from October through May, and a relatively short dry season covers the remaining four months of the year"
presumably within the large fragment immediately west of the campus, which is about 1.5 km across (very roughly 200 ha)

Life forms: birds

Sampling methods: no design, mist nets

Sample size: 1322 captures or sightings

Years: 2013, 2014

Seasons: dry, wet or monsoon

Net or trap nights: 5531

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "Capture of birds was performed between February 2013 and August 2014... Birds were caught by mist nets (12 m long x 2 m height, 36 mm mesh with a total capture effort of 796, 464 net-hours" (i.e., presuming 12 hour days, 796464 n-h/12 m/12 h = 5531 net days using very roughly 10 nets, if used every day)

Sample no: 3608

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2020-05-23 12:04:39

Modified: 2020-05-23 02:04:39