Sample name: Ordos Key Research Station

Reference: Z.-G. Zeng, J.-H. Bi, S.-R. Li, S.-Y. Chen, D. A. Pike, Y. Gao, and W.-G. Du. 2014. Effects of habitat alteration on lizard community and food web structure in a desert steppe ecosystem. Biological Conservation 179:86-92 [ER 3290]

Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland

Protection: unprotected

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: agriculture

MAT: 6.5

MAP: 340.0

Habitat comments: "The mean annual temperature is 6–7 °C... Annual precipitation ranges from 300 to 380 mm, with most rain falling between July and September... The study area is predominately sandy grassland with low to moderate levels of sparse vegetation... Much of the natural habitat in this region has been altered for agricultural purposes... and to combat desertification" and sites were in "three distinctive habitat types for study (sparse [degraded], natural [intermediate structure], and dense [actively revegetated])"

Life forms: lizards

Sites: 30

Sampling methods: no design,drift fences,pitfall traps

Sample size: 348 individuals

Sampling comments: sampling was "at 10 sites in each of these three habitat types... Sites were separated by at least 500 m, and each contained two drift fence arrays with pitfall traps for lizards and two pitfall traps for invertebrates"

Sample number: 3655

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2020-06-05 15:25:49

Modified: 2020-06-05 05:25:49