Sample name: Mount Kilimanjaro (2150 m)

Reference: L. S. Mulungu, R. H. Makundi, A. W. Massawe, R. S. Machangu, and N. E. Mbije. 2008. Diversity and distribution of rodent and shrew species associated with variations in altitude on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Mammalia 72:178-185 [ER 903]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: disturbed forest

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: disturbed "montane forest" that is presumably dry because it is elevationally in between bushland and moorland

Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sampling methods: line transect,pitfall traps,Sherman traps

Sample size: 128 individuals

Days: 3

Nets or traps: 121

Net or trap nights: 300

Sampling comments: "100 Sherman traps were placed... in 10 lines, each with 10 trapping stations, 10 m apart for 2 consecutive nights... The smaller rodents and shrews were captured using pitfall traps placed along the trap lines to each trapping site in the mountain. The pitfall traps (n=21) were made of 10-l plastic buckets (250 mm high=220 mm rim) and were arranged 5 m apart, in a pitfall line" (reported trap night count is not consistent with the text)

Sample number: 1351

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-23 17:12:59

Modified: 2015-02-23 06:12:59