Sample name: Gingercake Creek

Sample aka: Pisgah National Forest

Reference: M. P. Brannon. 2000. Niche relationships of two syntopic species of shrews, Sorex fumeus and S. cinereus, in the southern Appalachian Mountains. Journal of Mammalogy 81(4):1053-1061 [ER 1406]

Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Protection: national/state forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 10.3

MAP: 1395.0

Habitat comments: "mixed hardwoods with an understory of Rhododendron and mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia). Stand age is about 55 years old"
climate data are for the Walker Cove Research Natural Area within the Pisgah National Forest and are from Olano and Palmer (2003, Forest Ecology and Management)

Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sites: 12

Sampling methods: quadrat,drift fences,pitfall traps

Sample size: 512 individuals

Days: 60

Nets or traps: 48

Net or trap nights: 2544

Sampling comments: "Twelve 50- by 50-m plots... In the center of each plot was a drift fence array" in a Y-shape "with one 20-1 pitfall (5-gallon plastic bucket) located at each end and another at the central intersection... Trapping was conducted for 6 consecutive days each month from August to November 1996 and from March to August 1997" (reported trap night total does not square with trap count and number of trapping days overall)

Sample number: 1802

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-11-07 21:48:38

Modified: 2015-12-02 10:37:30