Rintoul Creek Road
Basic information
Sample name: Rintoul Creek Road

Sample aka: Boola-Boola State Forest

Reference: G. R. Friend. 1979. The response of small mammals to clearing and burning of eucalypt forest in south-eastern Australia. Australian Wildlife Research 6(2):151-163 [ER 855]
Geography
Country: Australia

State: Victoria

Coordinate: 38° 12' S, 147° 32' E
Latlng basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "10 km north-west of Traralgon"
latitude given as 30 12 but is certainly 38 12

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Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: selective logging

WMT: 19.2

CMT: 9.1

MAP: 648.0

Habitat comments: secondary forest dominated by Eucalyptus and Acacia, logged during the study period
climate data are for station 94907 (RAAF Base East Sale)

Methods
Life forms: carnivores, rodents, other small mammals

Sites: 1

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

Sample size: 260 individuals

Years: 1976, 1977

Nets or traps: 350

Net or trap nights: 3202

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: 11 nearly adjacent trap grids including 350 cage traps and Elliott traps baited with "peanut butter, rolled oats and treacle"
nine grids were 6 x 5 and the other two were 10 x 4, all with 20-m spacing
counts are of individuals

Metadata
Sample no: 1210

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-16 09:38:39

Modified: 2015-10-04 10:15:57

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
7 species
2 singletons
total count 260
geometric series index: 10.6
Fisher's α: 1.325
geometric series k: 0.4135
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.3886
Shannon's H: 0.8502
Good's u: 0.9923
Register
Rattus fuscipes 200
Rattus lutreolus 10
Antechinus stuartii (brown antechinus)30
Antechinus swainsonii (Tasmanian dusky antechinus)7
Mus musculus 11
Felis catus (domestic cat)1
Pseudocheirus peregrinus (common ringtail possum)1