Sample name: Southern Atherton Tableland

Reference: W. F. Laurance. 1992. Abundance estimates of small mammals in Australian tropical rainforest: a comparison of four trapping methods. Wildlife Research 19:651-655 [ER 1678]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: fragment

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 18.8

MAP: 2800.0

Habitat comments: "Rainforests in this area are mostly complex notophyll vine-forest... having a complex structure, many epiphytes and lianas, and continuous canopy" and there is "a pronounced wet season from January to April"
MAP stated in text; MAT is for Millaa Millaa Falls and is from Greenwood (2005, Palaios)

Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sites: 52

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

Sample size: 3183 individuals

Years: 1986, 1987

Seasons: dry,wet or monsoon

Net or trap nights: 15750

Sampling comments: "52 small (30 x 30 m) trapping grids in 10 forest fragments (1.4-590 ha in area), and five 'control sites' in continuous forest... trapping grids were arrayed along a single gradsect line (Gillison 1984), which is a transect situated along a maximum elevational gradient... Mammal populations were censused 6-7 times at each grid over a 14-month period (July 1986- August 1987), with each census consisting of five consecutive nights of trapping... Terrestrial trapping (15 750 trap-nights) involved 12 Elliott box-traps (10 x 11x 30 cm) and six wire-mesh cage-traps (20 x 22 x 48 cm), baited with rolled oats and vanilla essence and placed on the ground in a cross-shaped configuration within each grid. Nineteen grids were initially censused in the early dry season (July-August 1986), then all 52 grids were censused three times each, during the late dry season (August-December 1986), the wet season (January-April 1987), and the following dry season (May-August 1987"

Sample number: 1863

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-12-29 16:48:41

Modified: 2015-12-29 05:48:41