Sample name: Lunyo Forest

Reference: N. O. Okia. 1992. Aspects of rodent ecology in Lunyo Forest, Uganda. Journal of Tropical Ecology 8(2):153-167 [ER 847]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: selective logging

MAT: 21.1

MAP: 1499.0

Habitat comments: "a small lake-shore forest... tall indigenous trees have been cut in many parts so that most of it is now bush with overgrown tree stumps"
MAP (59 inches) and daily min/max ("just over 60º F" and "in the neighbourhood of 80º F") are for Entebbe and are from Baker (1956)

Life forms: rodents

Sampling methods: quadrat, baited, Havahart traps

Sample size: 772 captures or sightings

Years: 1970 - 1972

Days: 223

Seasons: dry, wet or monsoon

Net or trap nights: 7632

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: Havahart traps laid out in a 40 x 110 m grid and baited with "shelled ground nuts, ripe bananas and fresh cassava"
number of traps in use at a time varied from 20 to 49; trap nights laboriously computed from data in Table 1
counts include recaptures

Sample no: 1199

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-13 21:15:52

Modified: 2015-10-04 10:02:11