Sample name: Zakouma National Park (trap line D)

Reference: L. Granjon, C. Houssin, E. Lecompte, M. Angaya, J. César, R. Cornette, G. Dobigny, and C. Denys. 2004. Community ecology of the terrestrial small mammals of Zakouma National Park, Chad. Acta Theriologica 49(2):215-234 [ER 2774]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

MAP: 850.0

Habitat comments: the park "is in the Sudanian zone and receives between 800 and 900 mm of rainfall per year, between June and October... In the annually flooded parts, the main vegetation is either a tree savanna dominated by Acacia seyal, or a plain with grasses... The main vegetation of most of the remaining (non-flooded) parts of the park is a more typical Sudanian savanna dominated by trees of the family Combretaceae" and the line was in "Shrub savanna with Ziziphus mauritiana and Capparis spp. groves"

Life forms: rodents

Sampling methods: line transect,baited,other traps

Sample size: 62 individuals

Years: 2000

Days: 3

Seasons: dry

Nets or traps: 50

Net or trap nights: 150

Sampling comments: "Trapping took place during 6-21 February 2000, ie during the dry season... Small mammals were captured using wooden-based, wire-mesh live-traps set in lines... Nineteen trap lines were run for three nights each (except lines P and P’, which were maintained for two nights only). Each trap line usually comprised 50 traps, 10 m apart. The baits used were peanut butter on a piece of cassava Manihot esculenta or on a date Phoenix dactylifera"

Sample number: 2971

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2018-05-29 21:57:17

Modified: 2018-05-29 11:57:17