Salado Creek
Basic information
Sample name: Salado Creek
Sample aka: Camp Bullis
Reference: L. F. Stickel and W. H. Stickel. 1949. A Sigmodon and Baiomys population in ungrazed and unburned Texas prairie. Journal of Mammalogy 30(2):141-150 [ER 967]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Texas
Coordinate: 29° 41' N, 98° 34' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: at Camp Bullis "about eighteen miles northwest of San Antonio... about 100 yards west of the dry bed of Salado Creek" (coordinate based on Camp Bullis)
Environment
Habitat: temperate savanna
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 29.6
CMT: 11.1
MAP: 797.0
Habitat comments: "ungrazed and unburned tall-grass prairie... Little bluestem, Andropogon scoparius, is dominant in general"
climate data based on station 72253 (San Antonio International Airport)
climate data based on station 72253 (San Antonio International Airport)
Methods
Life forms: rodents
Site length: 235.92
Site width: 104.85
Sampling methods: quadrat,baited,Sherman traps
Sample size: 129 individuals
Years: 1947
Days: 9
Net or trap nights: 570
Sampling comments: "The trapping area was... approximately 344 feet wide and 774 feet long... Sherman live-traps (rat-size) were baited with rolled oats and peanut butter"; there were 50 traps for the first six nights and 90 during the last three
Metadata
Sample number: 1454
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2015-03-02 14:21:55
Modified: 2015-10-08 09:59:02
Abundance distribution
3 species
1 singleton
total count 129
extrapolated richness: 4.6
Fisher's α: 0.549
geometric series k: 0.1098
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4601
Shannon's H: 0.6888
Good's u: 0.9922
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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