Sample name: Campos de Altitude

Reference: G. Paise and E. M. Vieira. 2006. Daily activity of a Neotropical rodent (Oxymycterus nasutus): seasonal changes and influence of environmental factors. Journal of Mammalogy 87(4):733-739 [ER 1612]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 17.0

CMT: 10.9

MAP: 1850.0

Habitat comments: "Tall grasses dominate"
"markedly seasonal and mesothermic... corresponding to Köppen's (1948) Cfb zone"
summer daily min/max 9.4/24.6ºC, winter 2.5/19.3ºC; MAP 1700 to 2000 mm

Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sampling methods: line transect,baited,Sherman traps

Sample size: 300 individuals

Years: 2001, 2002

Days: 35

Seasons: winter,spring,summer,autumn

Nets or traps: 60

Net or trap nights: 1981

Sampling comments: "7 trapping sessions (5 days each)" in all four seasons from June 2001 to May 2002 "using standard Sherman traps (9 x 8 x 23 cm...) in 5 transects placed ≥50 m from each other. Transects... comprised 14 trap stations spaced 40 m apart, totalling 70 trap stations. Censuses were made with 60 traps; in every trapping session we randomly selected 60 stations to sample... Traps were baited witha mixture of peanut butter, cornmeal, mashed banana, commercial cod-liver oil, and vanilla essence"

Sample number: 1827

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-12-14 21:07:30

Modified: 2018-06-30 10:58:49