Sample name: Black Mountain Road (narrow road-clearing sites)

Sample aka: Kuranda State Forest

Reference: M. Goosem. 2000. Effects of tropical rainforest roads on small mammals: edge changes in community composition. Wildlife Research 27:151-163 [ER 851]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: selective logging

WMT: 27.8

CMT: 21.5

MAP: 1886.0

Habitat comments: "Wet Tropics"
climate data are for station 94287 (Cairns airport)

Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sites: 2

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

Sample size: 163 individuals

Years: 1990

Nets or traps: 96

Net or trap nights: 1694

Sampling comments: "four trapping sessions of four nights conducted at four-weekly intervals in August, September, October and November 1990" using a "trapping grid (220 m × 100 m) incorporating 48 trap positions" at each of two sites; there were 40 Elliott traps and 8 wire cage traps on each grid, and traps were baited with "rolled oats and vanilla essence"
counts are definitely of individuals

Sample number: 1204

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-14 20:54:56

Modified: 2015-10-04 10:09:13