Sample name: Emas National Park (pitfall traps)

Reference: A. P. Carmignotto, A. M. R. Bezerra, and F. H. G. Rodrigues. 2014. Nonvolant small mammals from a southwestern area of Brazilian Cerrado: diversity, habitat use, seasonality, and biogeography. Therya 5(2):535-558 [ER 1547]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 21.0

MAP: 2100.0

Habitat comments: seven habitat types including a mix of "evergreen gallery forests... grasslands... and... cerrado"
"Tropical, type AW according to Köopen’s classification, with two well defined seasons: the dry season, from May to September, and rainy season, from October to April, with total precipitation varying from 1,200 to 3,000 mm per year... mean annual temperature around 20 – 22 ºC"

Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sites: 28

Sampling methods: quadrat,pitfall traps

Sample size: 19 individuals

Years: 1998, 1999

Days: 52

Nets or traps: 90

Net or trap nights: 2898

Sampling comments: "28 different areas in ENP that represent the seven habitat types... Three pitfall trap capture stations were installed in five of the seven habitat types... Each pitfall capture station was composed of six buckets of 35 liters, spaced three meters from each other disposed in the form of the letter 'T'"

Sample number: 1804

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-11-28 21:03:11

Modified: 2015-11-28 10:03:11