Upper Susitna River Basin
Basic information
Sample name: Upper Susitna River Basin

Reference: S. W. Buskirk and S. O. MacDonald. 1984. Seasonal food habits of marten in south-central Alaska. Canadian Journal of Zoology 62:944-950 [ER 1605]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Alaska


Coordinate: 61° 16' N, 150° 35' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: coordinate based on Susitna River
elevation 450 to 900 m

Environment
Habitat: boreal forest/taiga

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 15.0

CMT: -11.8

MAP: 422.0

Habitat comments: "primarily forests and woodlands dominated by black spruce (Picea mariana) and white spruce (P. glauca)" with some stands of "broadleaf tree species" and "wet meadows"
climate data are for climate station 70273 (Anchorage airport)

Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sampling methods: baited,pitfall traps,snap traps

Sample size: 950 individuals

Days: 8

Net or trap nights: 3960

Sampling comments: sampling was during "26 August - 2 September 1980" and trap night total is apparently exactly 1/3 of the overall three-sampling period total stated in the text; "Each trapline was a straight transect of 20 trap stations spaced at 15.2-m intervals. We set two 'Museum Special' snap traps and one metal cone pitfall trap within a 1-m radius of each trap station centerpoint for three consecutive nights... Snap traps were baited with a mixture of peanut butter, rolled oats, and ground walnuts or sunflower seeds"; number of traplines is unclear

Metadata
Sample number: 1824

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-12-13 10:01:10

Modified: 2015-12-12 23:01:10

Abundance distribution
7 species
0 singletons
total count 950
geometric series index: 7.4
Fisher's α: 1.024
geometric series k: 0.4901
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7059
Shannon's H: 1.4051
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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