Sample name: Saama (Site 4)

Reference: A. A. Barnett, N. Read, J. Scurlock, C. Low, H. Norris, and R. Shapley. 2000. Ecology of rodent communities in agricultural habitats in eastern Sierra Leone: Cocoa groves as forest refugia. Tropical Ecology 41(2):127-142 [ER 1122]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: plantation

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 33.0

CMT: 28.0

MAP: 2500.0

Habitat comments: "on the border" between "lowland and secondary grassland mosaic" and "Guineo-Congolian lowland rainforest" and trapping was within an "actively managed" cocoa groves
regional stated in text to be MAP 2500 to 3050 mm; climate data are for Njala and are from Kamara et al. (2014, American Journal of Agriculture and Forestry)

Life forms: rodents

Sampling methods: quadrat,baited,snap traps

Sample size: 64 individuals

Nets or traps: 250

Net or trap nights: 1041

Sampling comments: "one 50 m x 50 m sampling grid w as set up as near as possible to the grove’s centre... both small and large snap-traps were used. The ratio of small to large traps was 1:2... with four traps situated within 3 m of each 10 m marker stake.. A further trap was positioned ap- proximately mid-way between each 10 m marker. Of this total of 204 traps, four of these were placed arboreally. A further 46 traps were positioned at suitable arboreal locations throughout the grid, bringing the total of traps placed on the trunks and limbs of trees to 20% (50 of 250)... Bait, a paste of rolled oats, peanut butter, bananas and vegetable oil, was applied each day at dusk"

Sample number: 1642

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-06-17 20:17:09

Modified: 2015-10-06 09:02:45