Sample name: Thiaki Creek Nature Refuge (pasture)

Reference: T. Whitehead, M. Goosem, and N. D. Preece. 2014. Use by small mammals of a chronosequence of tropical rainforest revegetation. Wildlife Research 41:233-242 [ER 987]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: pasture

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 24.3

MAP: 4395.0

Habitat comments: originally "complex notophyll to mesophyll vine forest of high rainfall, cloudy uplands on basalt" but now "cleared but abandoned grazing pasture"
climate data are for Bellenden Ker and are from Kiese et al. (2005, Global Change Biology)

Life forms: rodents

Sites: 1

Site length: 50

Site width: 50

Sampling methods: quadrat,baited,cage traps,Elliott traps,pitfall traps

Sample size: 130 individuals

Years: 2013

Days: 15

Nets or traps: 26

Net or trap nights: 390

Sampling comments: "five trapping sessions about 4 weeks apart were conducted over three consecutive nights" and there were "20 Elliott traps and four cage traps spaced 9 m or 12 m apart and two pitfall traps complete with 5-m drift fence... five rows perpendicular to the slope contained three to five Elliott traps. The two pitfall traps were placed at 10 m and 40 m down the central row. Elliott and cage traps were baited with a mixture of rolled oats, peanut butter, vanilla essence and sardines"

Sample number: 1476

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-03-04 09:44:47

Modified: 2015-10-09 10:07:30