Seymour (1939, Plot A)
Basic information
Sample name: Seymour (1939, Plot A)
Reference: C. J. Goodnight and E. J. Koestner. 1942. Comparison of trapping methods in an Illinois prairie. Journal of Mammalogy 23(4):435-438 [ER 965]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Illinois
Coordinate: 40° 6' N, 88° 27' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "two miles west of Seymour... R. 7 E., T. 19 N., Sec. 18"
Environment
Habitat: temperate savanna
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 23.9
CMT: -4.6
MAP: 1010.0
Habitat comments: "typical prairie vegetation; both high and low prairie was present in the area studied"
climate data are for Champaign and are from Lin et al. (2004, Plant Ecology)
climate data are for Champaign and are from Lin et al. (2004, Plant Ecology)
Methods
Life forms: rodents
Sampling methods: quadrat,baited,Sherman traps
Sample size: 54 individuals
Years: 1939
Days: 18
Sampling comments: an area "62 1/2 meters long and 10 meters wide... set with Sherman live-traps... baited with a mixture of dry oatmeal and raisins" and set for 18 consecutive days
a few snap-trap counts are omitted
a few snap-trap counts are omitted
Metadata
Sample number: 1452
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2015-03-02 14:01:24
Modified: 2015-12-01 08:25:37
Abundance distribution
5 species
1 singleton
total count 54
extrapolated richness: 6.9
Fisher's α: 1.345
geometric series k: 0.4729
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7058
Shannon's H: 1.3507
Good's u: 0.9815
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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Current reference:
Herzog et al. 2003 (ER 1261)