Sample name: Faisalabad (sugarcane)

Reference: M. A. Beg, M. Mushtaq ul Hassan, . Durr i Ishahwar, and M. S. Nadeem. 2006. The dynamics of rats and mice populations inhabiting wheat-sugarcane based croplands in central Punjab (Pakistan). Pakistan Journal of Zoology 42(3):311-323 [ER 945]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Altered habitat: cropland

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 33.5

CMT: 11.5

MAP: 390.0

Habitat comments: "the natural vegetation of this part of the Indus plain was the tropical thorn forest" and the study was located on "a 100-acre block of wheat-sugarcane based croplands of central Punjab"
CMT and WMT are based in mean daily min/max for January and June

Life forms: rodents

Sampling methods: baited,snap traps

Sample size: 223 individuals

Years: 1993, 1994

Days: 55

Net or trap nights: 1385

Sampling comments: there were 11 months of trapping and "monthly trappings lasted for five consecutive nights" with "10 rat snap traps (17cm x 9cm) and five mouse snap traps (12cm x 6cm)" placed at five stations each in 7, 8, or 11 locations; traps were baited but the exact bait is not mentioned

Sample number: 1427

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-28 20:24:23

Modified: 2015-02-28 09:24:50