Fort Bayard Allotment (untreated woodland)
Basic information
Sample name: Fort Bayard Allotment (untreated woodland)

Reference: K. E. Severson. 1986. Small mammals in modified pinyon-juniper woodlands, New Mexico. Journal of Range Management 39(1):31-34 [ER 1614]
Geography
Country: United States

State: New Mexico



Coordinate: 32° 48' N, 108° 9' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: "Gila National Forest, 15 km east of Silver City"
coordinate based on the Fort Bayard Historic District
elevation 1880 to 2040 m

Environment
Habitat: temperate coniferous forest

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Protection: national/state forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 12.8

WMT: 22.6

CMT: 3.5

MAP: 393.0

Habitat comments: "Important trees and shrubs" included pinyon, one-seed juniper, alligator juniper, gray oak, and hairy mountain mahogany
"The pinyon-juniper control treatments... were established as part of a mule deer... and elk... habitat study" and are therefore secondary forest

Methods
Life forms: rodents

Sampling methods: line transect,baited,snap traps

Sample size: 245 individuals

Years: 1981 - 1983

Days: 12

Seasons: autumn

Nets or traps: 204

Net or trap nights: 2448

Sampling comments: "6 sampling areas" with "2 transects... randomly placed in each. Each transect consisted of 17 trapping locations spaced 10 m apart. Each location consisted of 2 traps, a standard rat trap, and a museum special. Trapping was conducted during the second and third weeks of September each year. Traps were baited with a mixture of peanut butter, oatmeal, and an ant repellent... only 3 transects were run within each treatment for 4 consecutive days" each year and there were two treatment areas, so there were 816 trap nights a year

Metadata
Sample number: 1829

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-12-15 20:39:18

Modified: 2018-06-30 10:59:09

Abundance distribution
10 species
0 singletons
total count 245
geometric series index: 11.8
Fisher's α: 2.097
geometric series k: 0.6363
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7165
Shannon's H: 1.6588
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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