Sample name: Zarqan County

Reference: A. Masoumeh, A. Kourosh, K. Mohsen, M. M. Hossein, A. Qasem, M.-F. M. Djaefar, N. M. Esmaeil, and D. Tahereh. 2014. Laboratory based diagnosis of leishmaniasis in rodents as the reservoir hosts in southern Iran, 2012. Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine 4:S575-S580 [ER 904]

Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 13.8

MAP: 330.0

Habitat comments: apparently "desert and semi-desert" and "from outside and marginalized rural areas" (apparently meaning not arable land)
climate data are for Zarqan and are from Erfani et al. (2013, IJFAS)

Life forms: rodents

Sites: 5

Sampling methods: no design, baited, Sherman traps

Sample size: 108 individuals

Years: 2012

Net or trap nights: 220

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "Rodents were captured once every month using 20 standard Sherman live traps... placed next to burrow holes, and baited with a mixture of dates, cucumbers or millet seeds"; there were 20 trap nights a month over 11 months

Sample no: 1352

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-23 17:31:24

Modified: 2015-10-05 05:16:54