Sample name: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (Uplands)

Reference: T. J. Orr, S. D. Newsome, and B. O. Wolf. 2015. Cacti supply limited nutrients to a desert rodent community. Oecologia 178:1045-1062 [ER 1673]

Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 20.6

MAP: 234.0

Habitat comments: "Arizona upland or saguaro/paloverde forest" with "columnar cacti" and "leguminous trees"
climate data are for Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and are from Comstock and Ehleringer (1992, PNAS)

Life forms: rodents

Sites: 1

Sampling methods: line transect,quadrat,Sherman traps

Sample size: 342 individuals

Years: 2005, 2006

Days: 36

Seasons: winter,spring,summer,autumn

Net or trap nights: 1639

Sampling comments: "We trapped live rodents monthly with Sherman traps (8 cm × 10 cm × 31 cm) from May 2005 through September 2006. Total trapping effort included 3277 trap nights spread over 36 nights for an average of 2 days of trapping per month... Both grids and transects were used to sample the rodent community at each site, and 130 traps were used each night. Traps in the grids were set up as a square with all traps spaced 10 m apart from neighboring traps in either direction and as 10 m apart as paired trap stations in transects. Grids were set up in a 5 trap × 5 trap arrangement, resulting in a total of 25 traps per grid. A paired-trap transect, in addition to a grid on each site" with "40 traps total = 2 traps at each of the 20 stations" was used
trap and night counts do not square with the trap night total; I assume that the trap count figure is a maximum and that the trap night total is equally split between the two sites

Sample number: 1862

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-12-27 11:04:50

Modified: 2015-12-27 00:04:50